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     [John Leland's] most productive years were during the revival period of 1787-89. During these years he baptized some four hundred people, three hundred of them in one year. At the close of his life, he had baptized over fifteen hundred people, preached over eight thousand sermons and covered some 70,000 miles on horseback. - Albert L. Vail, The Morning Hour of American Baptist Missions, 1907, p. 34.

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     In politics he was a Democrat of the Jeffersonian school, a hater of all oppression, whether civil or ecclesiastical. His warmest sympathies went out to his Baptist brethren in their efforts to secure a complete divorce of the Church from the State. Everywhere he pleaded with all the energy of his soul for civil and religious liberty, and he had the satisfaction of seeing it at last come out of the conflict victorious over all foes. Among the class of ministers whom God raised up during the last century to do the special work which it was given the Baptist denomination to perform, John Leland occupies a conspicuous place. We doubt if his equal will ever be seen again. - The Baptist Encyclopedia

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     Leland’s self-written Epitaph: "Here lies the body of John Leland, who labored 67 years to promote piety and vindicate the civil and religious rights of all men." [The number was inserted at his death.]

John Leland Marker
Baptist Religious-Freedom Advocate

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John Leland
Colonial Baptist Minister
Annals of the American Pulpit: Baptist, 1860

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Elder John Leland
The Baptist Encyclopedia, 1881

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Early Virginia Baptist History
By Elder John Leland
The Writings of the Late Elder John Leland

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Self-Excuse
By John Leland

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John Leland on The Bible
By R. L. Vaughn

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Circular Letter of Shaftsbury Baptist Association
By Elder John Leland, 1793

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Corresponding Letter from the Shaftsbury Baptist Association
By Elder John Leland, 1796

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Syllabus of a Sermon by Elder John Leland
Preached in Philadelphia in 1814
The Baptist Memorial and Monthly Chronicle, 1842

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John Leland's Hymns
By Henry S. Burrage, 1888

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John Leland, The Aged American Preacher
The Baptist Reporter, 1843
A British Magazine

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Extracts of A Letter from John Leland
to Rev. John Taylor of Kentucky, 1830

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A Letter from John Leland to Stephen H. Cone, Pastor
First Baptist Church, New York City
Previously Unpublished
The Baptist Memorial, 1842

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Life and Character of the Rev. Peter Werden
By John Leland

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The Writings of the Late Elder John Leland
A Link

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John Leland Baptist College

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