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An Address on West India Emancipation

An 1838 anti-slavery address celebrating British West Indies emancipation and arguing immediate emancipation in the U.S. is safe, moral, and beneficial, citing Antigua’s example.
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The Written Law

Argues that Jesus, as divine Mediator, is God, ruler and judge of all; nations and civil institutions must honor and govern according to Scripture.
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Consistory — Its Constitution

Argues churches should actively train missionaries and that consistory (the deacon’s court) must be constituted in Christ’s name, explaining duties, practice, and objections.
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Levitical Functions

Argues that the Levites were divinely ordained to administer the church’s temporalities, consecrated like priests and distinct from civil rule, foreshadowing Christ’s sanctuary.
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Missionary Tour Through New England

Treatise on the office of deacon and church polity; a Covenanter missionary tour in New England. Discusses causes for fasting, national subjection to divine authority, and antislavery.
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The Heathen Classics — Dangerous School Books

Argues that classical pagan literature taught in academies corrupts youth’s faith and morals, wastes time and resources, and should be replaced by Christian authors.
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The Christian College

Argues for Christian colleges that use the Bible and orthodox Christian authors as primary class books, staffed by godly professors, to foster faith and reform education.
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Covenant Renovation

Argues ministers should be trained in Christian (not pagan) literature; reports Covenanter schools (Geneva Hall, Wilkinsburgh) and urges covenant renewal to unite and purify the church.
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Athaliah — 2 Chronicles XXIII

Argues geology and Scripture must agree, with revelation as higher authority; geology reveals earth’s strata but is limited. Reflects on Athaliah (2 Chron. 23) and national covenant renewal.
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Seasons of Covenanting

Argues Scripture and reason uphold the unity of the human race and condemns color prejudice and slavery. Also urges public covenanting to reform church and nation.
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The Monstrous Government of Slavery

An 1850 denunciation arguing U.S. slavery corrupts government, breeds immorality and heresy, and degrades society. The federal administration is charged with complicity in perpetuating slavery.
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Pagan Evils in the Church

1850 seminary lecture arguing pagan literature in colleges corrupts the church—causing irreverent Bible-reading and sensual vices—and urging Christian education and pious reading.
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The Fugitive Slave Law

An 1851 Christian address condemning the Fugitive Slave Law as unjust and unchristian, arguing it violates Scripture, civil rights, and conscience. Urges protest, aid to fugitives, and refusal to obey.
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Gog and Magog

A Covenanter exposition reads Rev.16’s first vial as a moral-spiritual sore promoting infidelity and cruelty; links Ezekiel’s Gog and Magog to Russian power and warns of corrupt theological education.
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The Flying Roll

1852 Covenanter: Revelation’s fifth vial strikes the Roman imperial throne, not the papacy. Zechariah’s flying roll is the Bible’s swift curse on apostasy and slaveholding.
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Hebrew Antiquities

Critiques a deficient New York edition of the Scots Worthies and discusses Hebrew antiquities, arguing that Native Americans may be descendants of Israel’s lost tribes.
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The State and Prospects of the Church

1851 Presbyterian protest condemning instrumental music in stated Lord’s Day worship as an unauthorized human addition. Warns of church decline, divisions, and lack of cooperation.
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