The Communicant’s Manual
Series of meditations to help communicants prepare for, receive, and reflect on the Lord’s Supper, featuring prayers, self-examination, and doctrinal exposition.
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Archives
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.
The Communicant’s Manual
A Family Piece
Husband’s memoir of Mrs. Martha Gray Janeway (1783–1851), detailing her birth, family, education, piety, marriage, and exemplary Christian character for her children and descendants.
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Hope for My Country
Argues for Jesus’ divinity and the Trinity, adducing Old and New Testament proofs (Genesis, Exodus, John) and miracles. Links Christian faith to national hope and moral influence.
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Inaugural Address at Western Theological Seminary (1828)
An 1828 inaugural sermon on the duties and responsibilities of seminary professors. It emphasizes defending the Gospel, ministerial formation, and evangelical holiness.
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Memoir of the Rev. Jacob J. Janeway, D.D.
Memoir of Dr. J. J. Janeway (1861) recounting his conversion, deep piety, pastoral ministry, and extracts from his private journal emphasizing prayer and holy living.
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The Christian Education of Children and Youth
Committee report urging Presbyterian churches to restore systematic Christian education for children and youth—domestic, school, and ecclesiastical catechizing—and warning of spiritual decline from neglect.
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Five Letters from James Anderson (1716–1723)
Letters from James Anderson (1716–1717) on early American Presbyterian settlements, ministry hardships, appeals for Church of Scotland support, discipline, and missionary efforts.
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Private Journal of James Henley Thornwell
A short rural-pastimes poem followed by a Philadelphia bookseller’s advertisement listing recent publications, atlases, educational works, and stationery for sale.
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The Grace of God Secures the Perseverance of the Saints
Thornwell argues that God’s sovereign election and effectual calling guarantee the final perseverance of true believers, sustained by the indwelling Holy Spirit.
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A Letter to the Churches Within the Bounds of the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia
Hymn and essays urging missionary zeal for converting the heathen and celebrating missionary progress; sermon defending creeds as biblical summaries and opposing doctrinal defection.
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A Tract on the Doctrines of Election and Reprobation
A defense of Calvinistic doctrines (election and reprobation), grounding predestination in Scripture and the Westminster Confession while opposing extremes.
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The Vanity and Glory of Man
A funeral sermon on a student’s death, urging reflection on the vanity of earthly pursuits and calling listeners to trust in the soul’s immortality and prepare for eternity.
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The Apocryphal Books [1]
1842 Presbyterian sermon arguing the Apocrypha is not canonical and condemning Roman claims, using Jewish and early-church testimony and Scripture (Jeremiah cited).
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The Apocryphal Books [2]
1843 sermon opposing Millerism/millenarianism and rebutting Roman arguments for the Apocrypha’s inspiration, arguing early councils read those books for edification, not as Scripture.
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The Right of Ruling Elders to Impose Hands in the Ordination of Ministers of the Word, Shown Out of the Apostolic and Primitive Church
Argues that ruling elders are true presbyters entitled to impose hands in ordination, distinguishing the elders’ governing role from the preacher’s teaching office in the primitive church.
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