Lemuel Haynes

Lemuel Haynes was the first black man ordained as a minister of the Gospel in the United States.

Born in 1753, Lemuel Haynes was an indentured servant who grew to become a dynamic Reformed preacher. A veteran of the American Revolution, he was nicknamed “The Black Puritan,” This addition to the Crossway Short Classics series presents some of Haynes’s important yet little-known sermons.

Selected Sermonsfeatures 4 rarely published sermons, along with a biography of Haynes. In “Universal Salvation,” he preaches on the reality of hell and the character of Satan. “A Sermon on John 3:3” explores Jesus’s command to be born again. “The Character and Work of a Spiritual Watchman Described” details qualifications for gospel ministers, and in “Liberty Further Extended,” he presents a biblical argument against slavery and oppression.

This collection of Haynes’s sermons offers readers robust spiritual insight and a closer look at an extraordinary figure in church history.

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