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The Confessional Presbyterian Archive is a curated digital library dedicated to preserving and promoting the writings of 17th–20th century Presbyterian pastors, teachers, and leaders. Featuring thousands of searchable texts, biographies, and historical resources, the archive provides direct access to the primary-source materials of American Presbyterianism.

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The Bible Baptist, No. I: Or, What Does the Bible Say on the Mode of Baptism?

Dialogue debating immersion vs. sprinkling as the valid mode of baptism, church fellowship and communion, arguing from biblical examples and Greek word usage.

Thomas Poage Hunt ⬩ 1857

An Hour with Thomas P. Hunt

Biographical sketch of temperance lecturer Thomas P. Hunt, highlighting his Sabbath convictions, fearless anti-liquor activism, accusations, threats, and public confrontations.

1852

Letter to the Cherokee Phoenix

John Huss ⬩ 1828

Ordination Sermon

Missionary Herald extracts: Schauffler's Paris journal and a translated sermon by Cherokee evangelist John Huss contrasting the broad way of sin with the narrow way to life.

John Huss ⬩ 1834

Letter to John Mix Stanley

1852 Smithsonian catalogue of portraits of 43 North American tribes with brief sketches — includes Cherokee religious life, a Cherokee Presbyterian minister's letter and the 1843 Indian council.

John Huss ⬩ 1852

The U.S. Constitution Weighed in the Balance

1843 Reformed Presbyterian pieces: one critiques millennialist errors; the other weighs the U.S. Constitution against Scripture, condemning its pro‑slavery clauses and political defects.

Robert Hutcheson ⬩ 1843

How Much of the Law Is Fulfilled and Abrogated?

A mid-19th-century sermon classifying Mosaic law into moral, ceremonial, and judicial codes, arguing the moral law endures while ceremonial and much judicial law were fulfilled in Christ.

Robert Hutcheson ⬩ 1862

Instrumental Music in New Testament Worship

Argues against using instruments in New Testament worship—no NT example, command, or synagogue precedent—and treats Old Testament instruments as ceremonial, priestly symbols.

Robert Hutcheson ⬩ 1872

Robert Hutcheson

1888 history of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America, containing biographies of ministers, accounts of congregations, missions, institutions, publications, and engravings.

William Melancthon Glasgow ⬩ 1888

Reminiscences, Sketches and Addresses Selected from My Papers During a Ministry of Forty-Five Years in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas

Memoirs and addresses by Rev. I.R. Hutchison recounting 45 years' Presbyterian ministry in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, with personal recollections, church history and moral essays.

John Russell Hutchison ⬩ 1874

Life or Death, Valuable to the Christian: A Discourse, Preached on the Occasion of the Death of William Edgar Baker, September 27, 1846

Funeral sermon arguing 'To live is Christ, to die is gain' (Philippians 1:21), highlighting conversion, steadfast piety, and a Christian's readiness for death.

Charles Kisselman Imbrie ⬩ 1851

History of the First Presbyterian Church of Jersey City, New Jersey

Charles K. Imbrie's 1876–1888 sermons recount the founding, growth, and eventual removal of the First Presbyterian Church of Jersey City, with notes on trustees and the Sunday school.

Charles Kisselman Imbrie ⬩ 1888

In Memoriam: Rev. Charles Kisselman Imbrie, D.D.

Memorial biographical sketch of Rev. Charles K. Imbrie (1814–1891), recounting his devoted Presbyterian ministry in Rahway and Jersey City, pastoral labors, family, and enduring faith.

1891

Handbook of English-Japanese Etymology

1880 English–Japanese etymology and grammar handbook by William Imbrie. Covers syllabary, Hepburn transliteration, verb inflections, agglutination, parts of speech, and paradigms.

William Imbrie ⬩ 1880

The Life of Christ

Preface to The Life of Christ (1884) by W. Imbrie and Ibuka Kajinosuke—textbook for Union Theological School, Tokyo, for ministerial instruction; translated into Japanese.

William Imbrie ⬩ 1884

A Sermon Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church in the City of Baltimore on Thursday, September 8, 1808: Being a Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer

James Inglis ⬩ 1808

A Missionary Sermon, Delivered in the City of Philadelphia, May 25, 1812, Before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America

James Inglis ⬩ 1812

A Discourse Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church, in the City of Baltimore, … October 2, 1814: Before the Lieutenant-Colonel, the Officers and Soldiers

Sermon asserting that our life and every way belong to God: He gives and sustains our breath, orders our circumstances, and therefore we must glorify, trust, and submit to His providence.

James Inglis ⬩ 1814

Sermons of the Late Dr. James Inglis, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, With Some of His Forms of Prayer

Collection of sermons by James Inglis on Christ's person and work, atonement, devotion, providence, resurrection, and pastoral instruction for Christian living.

James Inglis ⬩ 1820

James Ingliss, D.D.

Biographical sketch of Rev. James Inglis (1777–1820): his ministry, eloquence, sermons, and character, with anecdotes and quoted texts (James 4; Job 19).

William Buell Sprague ⬩ 1858

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