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Isaac Terry

1689–1744

An early-18th-century Anglican clergyman whose surviving sermons open a small window onto church life and public debate in Georgian Canterbury. His work blends moral instruction, loyalty, and practical religion in a direct, period voice.

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The religious and loyal subject's duty considered: with regard to the present Government and the Revolution A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, on Wednesday, January 30, 1722-3

The religious and loyal subject's duty considered: with regard to the present Government and the Revolution A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, on Wednesday, January 30, 1722-3

by Isaac Terry

About the author

Isaac Terry was an English clergyman and religious writer, born in 1689 and died in 1744. Surviving catalog records identify him as Isaac Terry, 1689–1744, and describe him as the author of several sermons published during his lifetime and shortly after his death.

His books show him working in and around Canterbury. One sermon from 1722–23 describes him as "late of Christ-Church, Oxon.", linking him with Christ Church, Oxford, while a later collected volume, Sixteen Sermons upon Select Subjects, calls him the late Rector of the united parishes of St. Mary Bredman and St. Andrew in Canterbury. Taken together, these records suggest a career rooted in the Church of England, higher learning, and parish ministry.

Terry seems to have written mainly for the pulpit: sermons on religion, public duty, and the political temper of his age. For modern listeners, his appeal is less about celebrity than atmosphere—his work preserves the sound of an educated Anglican preacher speaking to his own moment in early Georgian England.