ABSTRACT
Too often, historians have assumed that a radical politics calling for a voice in government for Dissenters was accompanied by a radical religion – one that did not take seriously the claims of religion.2 However, James Bradley in his study of Dissent examined the sermons of Dissenting pastors and found this was not the case.3 James Murray, a case in point, demonstrated in his numerous printed sermons, tracts, political treatises and commentaries that liberalism has roots in biblical principles.4
