Short Sermons to Little Children
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Short sermons for children teaching God’s greatness, Christ the Good Shepherd, prayer, and holy living through simple stories and Bible examples.
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Short Sermons to Little Children
Swedenborgianism
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Critical review of Swedenborgian "New Church"—accuses Swedenborg of claiming private revelations, rejecting much of Scripture, and denying orthodox Trinitarian doctrine.
Thoughts on the Religious Instruction of the Negroes of this Country
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1848 essay advocating Christian instruction for Black people, recounting Moravian and Methodist missions among slaves and free Blacks, resistance faced, and social benefits of evangelization.
Plain Thoughts About Great and Good Things for Little Boys and Girls
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Aimed at children, these plain lessons argue for God’s existence and attributes, urging prayer, obedience, and rejection of idolatry with simple proofs from creation and Scripture.
The Inquisition
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Review condemning the Inquisition and Bishop Kenrick’s defense of papal primacy, tracing historical abuses and citing Llorente, Dellon, and others to expose ecclesiastical tyranny.
The Saint and the Sinner
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Contrasts the saint and the sinner, detailing Christian character, conversion, justification, and sanctification. Emphasizes paradoxes of faith and holy living.
The Efficiency of the Church
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Inaugural sermon on the efficiency of the Church, urging personal piety, fervent prayer, zeal, and faithful ministry to revive congregational growth and reform.
The Works of Algernon Sidney
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Biographical sketch of Algernon Sidney, praising his steadfast commitment to liberty, opposition to tyranny, exile, trial, and execution for republican principles.
Great Students of the Bible
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A plea for the Otoe Indians after a Sioux attack urging Christian sympathy and mission. Reports on Lafayette College commencement and a critique of inadequate pastoral support.
Life of Socrates
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1851 Princeton Review pieces: essays on missions and a detailed biography of Socrates—his life, philosophy, family, military service, trial, and death (he repeats Psalm 51).
Popery: Bellarmine’s Fifteenth Mark of a Church
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Argues against Bellarmine’s claim that temporal prosperity marks the true Church, citing Scripture and history showing God’s people often suffer. Affirms persecution as the Church’s witness.
Satan’s Temptations
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Essay contrasts extemporaneous preaching with written sermons and offers devotional meditations: death as Christ’s victory, resisting Satan’s temptations, and the shortness of time to serve God.
South Carolina and the Union
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Mid-19th-century Richmond newspaper page with ads (timber sale, bridge bids, stallion stud), a runaway slave reward, and local items on President Fillmore’s visit and the new steamship Roanoke.
Christ the Forerunner
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1852 pieces defending Christianity against deism, portraying Christ as our forerunner, and offering gospel consolation in death with hope of the resurrection.
The Grace of Christ
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A clear exposition that salvation is by Christ’s unmerited grace. Surveys human sinfulness, atonement, justification, regeneration, and consolation in divine grace.
The Incomprehensibility of God’s Nature and Ways
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Sermon on the incomprehensibility of God’s nature and ways: God’s infinite attributes and the Trinity, human inability to fully comprehend Him, with Scripture proofs and pastoral reassurance.
Addresses Delivered at the Inauguration of Rev. Wm. S. Plumer, D.D. as Professor of Didactic and Pastoral Theology in the Western Theological Seminary
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1854 inaugural address by W.S. Plumer on training ministers: Scripture-centered didactic and pastoral theology, combining rigorous scholarship, personal piety, and balanced systematic instruction.
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