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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.
Memorial of Messrs. Robinson and Brush to the Constitutional Convention of Kentucky
1849 Kentucky constitutional convention debates claims, corporate charters, and a proposal barring clergymen from the legislature. Memorial contends this infringes religious liberty.
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The Difficulties of Infidelity
1850–51 University of Virginia lecture by Stuart Robinson critiquing infidelity. He insists skeptics must propose a coherent theology and ethics and defends Christianity as the true remedy for human guilt.
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Christ’s Kingdom on Earth
1855 sermon: Christ is King and His kingdom—the church—is a self-expanding missionary society, grounded in the atonement and displayed in parables, ordinances, and evangelism.
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The General Assembly of 1854
Analysis of the 1854 General Assembly: creation of new synods, unequal representation and proposed reform, suspension of German Reformed correspondence, and seminary expansion.
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Trustees of Church Property — Their Functions and Relations to the Deacons of the Church
Argues that trustees should protect church property legally while deacons manage the church’s temporal affairs; warns against state incorporation and loss of ecclesiastical authority.
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The Church of God as an Essential Element of the Gospel
Inaugural 1858 discourse presenting a Calvinist Presbyterian doctrine of the Church: its idea, government, offices, ordinances, and sacraments, with a historical appendix of Presbyterian documents.
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January 26, 1865 Letter to President Lincoln
Presbyterian Rev. Stuart Robinson appeals to President Lincoln over military suppression of his journal and repeated abuses of property and persons, defending church-state separation and religious liberty.
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Slavery, as Recognized in the Mosaic Civil Law
Rev. Stuart Robinson argues the Mosaic civil law recognizes and regulates slavery, defends the New Testament’s toleration of slaveholding, and critiques anti-slavery philanthropy.
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The Infamous Perjuries of the “Bureau of Military Justice” Exposed
Rev. Stuart Robinson exposes perjured testimony used by the Bureau of Military Justice to implicate him in Dr. Blackburn’s yellow-fever plot, protesting press misuse and government complicity.
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