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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.
Report on Slavery Adopted by the 1818 General Assembly
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Discourses, Delivered in the College of New Jersey; Addressed Chiefly to Candidates for the First Degree in the Arts
Baccalaureate discourses by Ashbel Green to College of New Jersey students advocating the union of piety and science; includes a historical sketch of the college and explanatory notes.
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The Christian Advocate, Vol. 6
Preface and catechism lecture on the Ten Commandments: their sum is to love God and neighbour. Stresses wholehearted love, forgiveness, benevolence, and zeal for missions.
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Literary Diligence Recommended
Ashbel Green’s 1820 baccalaureate urges studious youths to practice literary diligence as a Christian duty—avoid idleness, frivolous company, and superficial reading.
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Introduction to The Spruce Street Lectures
A 1833 collection of Spruce Street Lectures defending the Presbyterian Confession of Faith, treating doctrines like human inability, regeneration, atonement, church polity and discipline.
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A Charge Delivered at the Installation of the Rev. Cornelius C. Cuyler, D.D. as Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, January 14th, 1834
An installation charge and sacramental sermon (ephesians 2) presenting Christ as our peace and outlining ministerial duties. Emphasizes personal piety, sound doctrine, preaching, visitation, and catechetical instruction.
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August 30, 1837 Letter to the Editor of the Watchman of the South
Newspaper notices and devotional pieces extolling Christ’s compassionate sacrifice, urging youth to embrace early piety, and exhorting Christians to courage and faithful obedience.
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Lectures on the Shorter Catechism, Volume 2
Lectures on the Shorter Catechism explaining duty to obey God’s revealed will and the moral law (Decalogue). Covers prayer, sacraments, conscience, and Abraham’s test.
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Funeral Sermon for Dr. James Sproat (1793)
Appendix of biographical sketches and eulogies of ministers (Dr. Sproat, Ashbel Green), recounting piety, pastoral labors, revivals, and notable funerals. Emphasizes humility and steadfast faith.
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Dr. Green’s Bible Class at Nassau Hall (1830)
Examines Abraham’s devotional faith—prayer and heavenly disposition—and recounts Dr. Green’s account of collegiate Bible classes at Nassau Hall, stressing regular Bible study and revival.
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Despise Not the Wrinkles of Age
Nassau Literary Magazine (Apr 1871) defends Edgar Allan Poe’s poetic genius against Lowell’s slur, praising his enduring talent and the dignity of age.
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Milton’s Satan
Essay critiques Milton’s Satan in Paradise Lost—admiring the poetry but arguing it conflicts with Scripture (Isa.14; Rev.12; Jude). Read for art, not theology.
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Note on Pneumatikos and Its Opposites, in the Greek of the New Testament
Scholarly analysis of New Testament Greek terms (pneuma, psychē, sarx) and their theological distinctions, with exegetical notes on Exodus 34:29–35.
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The Apologetical Value of the Testaments of the XII Patriarchs
1880 Presbyterian Review: a call for a representative Presbyterian journal; a study arguing the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (c.100–120 AD) reflect New Testament influence and support the early canon.
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Exegetical Note on Phil. IV.5
Essays on the distinction between physics and metaphysics, growth in German theological education, and an exegetical note on ‘The Lord is near’ (Phil. 4) urging prayer over anxiety.
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The Canonicity of Second Peter
1882 scholarly review arguing for the early canonicity of 2 Peter, examining patristic witnesses (Clement, Origen, Irenaeus, Melito) and historical evidence.
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The Divine Origin of the Bible
Warfield defends the Bible’s divine origin, arguing its unparalleled historical influence and social good require a superhuman cause. He reasons inductively from history and effects.
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