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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 Geography of Palestine

Children's Sabbath-school guide to the geography of Palestine, describing biblical sites, landscape, and travel routes. Includes hands-on teaching methods (sand tray, sewing maps, song).

Alexander Lacy Phillips ⬩ 1904

Sabbath Schools and the Southern Presbyterian Church

Traces Sabbath-school roots (synagogue to Robert Raikes) and its growth in the Southern Presbyterian Church: principles, organization, literature, and governance, 1861–1901.

Alexander Lacy Phillips ⬩ 1902

Souvenir Presented in Compliment to George Laurens Petrie, the Sole Surviving Attendant of That Historic Assembly …

1930

Greater Than the Temple: A Tribute to Christ

A sermon asserting Christ's supremacy over the Temple: the Temple was a temporary, partial type; Christ is the permanent, universal reality—the life and fulfillment of God’s worship.

George Laurens Petrie ⬩ 1927

The Epistle of Paul to Philemon: A Sermonic Meditation

A sermonic meditation on Philemon: the worth of Paul's small, personal letter; its social Gospel in the household (Philemon, Apphia, Archippus, Onesimus) and call to restoration.

George Laurens Petrie ⬩ 1925

Jacob’s Sons

A brief commentary on Genesis 49: Jacob's parting blessings—portraits of his sons. Presents Jacob as patriarch, poet, and prophet, linking symbols to tribal destinies.

George Laurens Petrie ⬩ 1910

A Narrative of a Tour Through the State of Vermont from April 27 to June 12, 1789

Diary of Rev. Nathan Perkins' 1789 tour through Vermont preaching to new settlements. He records travel hardships, congregations, ministers, baptisms, and frontier life.

Nathan Perkins ⬩ 1920

The Deacon’s First Responsibility

1917 Christian Observer urges deacons to provide fair support for ministers, promotes Christian stewardship and home missions, reports Bible provision for soldiers and Russia's new religious freedom.

Paul McNeel Penick ⬩ 1917

Foreword to S.W. Carruthers, The Everyday Work of the Westminster Assembly

Concise study of the Westminster Assembly’s everyday work (1643–1649): its relations with Parliament and Scotland, procedure, ministerial examinations, and the drafting of confessional standards.

Thomas Clinton Pears, Jr. ⬩ 1943

Short Title List of Books Printed in America Before 1800 in the Library of the Department of History (Presbyterian Historical Society)

Short-title bibliography (Presbyterian Historical Society, 1937) of books printed in America before 1800, listing sermons, confessions, psalms, synod minutes and other church publications.

Thomas Clinton Pears, Jr. ⬩ 1937

Review of Guy S. Klett, Presbyterians in Colonial Pennsylvania

Dec 1937 issue of Church History: articles and reviews on monasticism, Puritans, colonial Presbyterians, and Bishop Butler's apologetics (Analogy) and church historiography.

Thomas Clinton Pears, Jr. ⬩ 1937

Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, Vol. 2

Calvin explains that human works cannot justify; true righteousness and salvation come only by God's gratuitous grace, regeneration, and faith in Christ. External virtues without Christ are corrupt.

Thomas Clinton Pears, Jr. ⬩ 1936

Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, Vol. 1

Warfield's literary history of John Calvin's Institutes, tracing its composition, the author's youth, and the book's epoch-making influence on Reformation and systematic theology.

Thomas Clinton Pears, Jr. ⬩ 1936

New Harmony: An Adventure in Happiness; Papers of Thomas and Sarah Pears

Edition of Thomas and Sarah Pears' letters documenting New Harmony (1825–27): Robert Owen's utopian "Community of Equality," its constitution, daily life, disputes, and collapse.

Thomas Clinton Pears, Jr. ⬩ 1933

Bibliography of the Western Foreign Mission[ary] Society

Bibliographic history of the Western Foreign Missionary Society (W.F.M.S.), outlining its 1831 founding, key publications, missionaries, and Presbyterian foreign mission activity in India, Africa, and home fields.

Thomas Clinton Pears, Jr. ⬩ 1930

A Brief History of the Western Foreign Missionary Society

History of the Western Foreign Missionary Society (org. 1831) and Western Theological Seminary's missionary origins. Traces Presbyterian zeal for foreign missions and the Great Commission.

Thomas Clinton Pears, Jr. ⬩ 1930

Homiletics: Classification of Divisions

A concise guide to classifying sermon divisions: contrasts topical and textual methods, details types of topical divisions, and explains logical vs. rhetorical propositions and division methods.

William Miller Paxton ⬩ 1904

A Popular History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America

A concise popular history of the Presbyterian Church in the United States up to 1903, tracing its origins, colonial growth, polity, revivals, missions and role in church-state relations.

Jacob Harris Patton ⬩ 1903

A Geographical Catechism

Reprint of Henry Pattillo’s 1796 Geographical Catechism: a Q&A primer teaching geography and astronomy to youth, linking natural science with praise of God.

Henry Pattillo ⬩ 1909

Robert Mayne Patterson, D.D., LL.D.

Necrological report (1912) of Princeton Theological Seminary alumni: concise obituaries summarizing ministers' lives, ministries, publications, ordinations, deaths and burials.

Robert Mayne Patterson ⬩ 1912

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