African Mission
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1833 Presbyterian editorial defends doctrinal fidelity and church order against compromising moderation. It critiques Miss Crandall’s persecution and praises Presbyterian preaching.
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African Mission
Ecclesiastical Polity
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Samuel Miller argues the church is a governed, spiritual body under Christ, requiring elders, discipline, and creeds/confessions to preserve doctrine and order.
Introductory Essay to Charles de Viller’s An Essay on the Spirit and Influence of the Reformation
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Argues the Reformation restored justification by faith and freed the Bible, transforming politics, knowledge, and church life. Credits Luther with advancing liberty and learning.
November 11, 1833 Letter to the Editor of The Revivalist, Nashville, Tenn.
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Advocates religious instruction for working men and apprentices; includes Newton quotes and a snow-storm poem. Examines Synod of Philadelphia’s actions on presbytery and appeals.
October 14, 1833 Letter
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Report on the Western Foreign Missionary Society commissioning missionaries to Liberia and Western Africa, with ordinations, farewell services, and appeals for united prayer, support, and urgent evangelism.
Recommendation to Robert Burns, Memoirs of Rev. Thomas Halyburton
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Preface recommending Rev. Thomas Halyburton’s Memoirs: a candid account of conviction, conversion, sanctification, and assured faith. Useful for ministers and candidates.
Review of Brittan on Episcopacy
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1833 review critiques a defence of Protestant Episcopacy, arguing prelatical government fails to secure unity. Also discusses colonization and race origins with reference to Genesis.
The Dead Speaking
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Memoir and funeral sermon on Rev. Joseph W. Barr, a young missionary to Africa. Uses Abel and Scripture to exhort youth to faith, readiness, and missionary zeal.
The Utility and Importance of Creeds and Confessions (1824)
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Samuel Miller argues that written creeds and confessions are indispensable for the visible church’s unity and purity, providing a clear, public test of doctrine and fellowship.
Introductory Essay to John H. Agnew, A Manual on the Christian Sabbath
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A study defending the perpetual moral obligation of the Christian Sabbath and explaining the shift from the seventh to the first day. Surveys early church observance, worship, and communion practices.
Plea for an Enlarged Ministry
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Samuel Miller urges the church to raise many more ministers, using training and missions to fill vacant parishes and reach the vast heathen field.
Remarks from the Rev. Dr. Miller on the Late Rezeau Brown
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Review of Guerike’s Manual of Church History and a memoir of Rezeau Brown, a Princeton-educated young minister whose conversion, piety, and early death are recounted.
Remarks on the Epistles of Ignatius
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1834 critique of the Ignatian epistles’ authenticity and history, arguing many letters are interpolated or spurious and warning against using them to prove early diocesan episcopacy.
Christ the Model of Gospel Ministers
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Sermon urging ministers to follow Christ as their model: submit to his teaching, imbibe his Spirit, imitate his example, and devote themselves to advancing his kingdom.
Introductory Address to William B. Sprague, Lectures to Young People (1830)
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Practical lectures urging Christian training of youth: warns against bad company, worldly pleasures, and secular education unconverted; calls young people to embrace, grow, and persevere in faith.
New Ecclesiastical Law
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Examines the Synod of Philadelphia’s rule restricting complaints to judicial cases and defends the long-standing Presbyterian right of appeal, protest, and complaint with US and Scottish precedents.
New Ecclesiastical Law No. 2
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Argues against restricting appeals and complaints to judicial cases, defending the broad use of protests, record review, and executive functions in Presbyterian church government.
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