The Sanctuary Cleansed
Sermon argues the 'sanctuary' is the visible church which must be cleansed before Christ's final triumph. Ministers, creeds, and members will be purified, bringing righteousness and peace.
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The Sanctuary Cleansed
The Sanctuary Polluted
Sermon denouncing the pollution of the sanctuary by false prophets, corrupt priests, and hypocritical ministers across church history. It traces heresies (Arianism, Pelagianism, Arminianism) and urges reform and purity in ministry.
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The Character of Man
Sermon contends that human nature is wholly depraved—'dead in trespasses and sins'—arguing for original sin, inability to respond spiritually, and the necessity of God's quickening (regeneration).
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Methods of Peace
Call to pursue peace (Rom.14:19): cultivate humility, charity, forgiveness; engage controversies meekly, and defend church purity without pride or rancor.
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Four Propositions Sustained Against the Claims of the American Home Missionary Society
1831 Presbyterian pamphlet arguing that Christian missions belong to the church, not civil societies; attacks the American Home Missionary Society as unconstitutional and divisive.
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Fact and Mode of Purification
1857 Methodist pamphlet arguing from Scripture that purification (baptism) is by sprinkling, tracing the testimony of the Spirit, the water, and the blood.
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War, the Work of the Lord, and the Coward Cursed: A Sermon, Delivered in the First Presbyterian Meeting House in Cincinnatti, Ohio, … May 14, 1812
1813 sermon to Cincinnati militia arguing war can be God's work (Jeremiah 48:10). Calls for courage, discipline, and patriotic duty, citing Exodus and Revelation.
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The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and Annual Remembrancer of the Church, For 1868, Vol. 10
Introduction to The Presbyterian Historical Almanac (1868), recording assemblies, reunions, statistics, manses, libraries, and hundreds of ministerial biographies. Appeals for Presbyterian unity.
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The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and Annual Remembrancer of the Church, For 1867, Vol. 9
1867 Presbyterian Historical Almanac: publisher info, ads, an introduction on Presbyterian unity, church records, and extensive biographies/obituaries of ministers.
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The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and Annual Remembrancer of the Church, For 1866, Vol. 8
1866 Presbyterian Historical Almanac compiling church statistics, biographies of ministers, and proceedings of General Assemblies and presbyteries, with resources for church operations.
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The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and Annual Remembrancer of the Church, For 1865, Vol. 7
1865 Presbyterian Historical Almanac: annual record of assemblies, synods, ministerial directories, biographies, church histories, manses, and ecclesiastical resources.
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The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and Annual Remembrancer of the Church, For 1864, Vol. 6
1864 Presbyterian Historical Almanac: annual chronicles, seminary sketches, biographies and portraits, with ads and commentary on slavery, manses, and church affairs.
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The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and Annual Remembrancer of the Church, For 1863, Vol. 5
1863 Presbyterian Historical Almanac: church statistics, ministers' biographies, seminary and church histories, engravings, and reflections on Presbyterian life amid the Civil War.
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The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and Annual Remembrancer of the Church, For 1862, Vol. 4
1862 Presbyterian Historical Almanac containing church notices, missionary testimonials, and numerous 19th-century medical and prosthetic advertisements.
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The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and Annual Remembrancer of the Church, For 1861, Vol. 3
1861 Presbyterian Historical Almanac: an annual compendium of Presbyterian bodies, synod proceedings, reports, statistics, missions, ministers, and institutional histories.
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The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and Annual Remembrancer of the Church, For 1860, Vol. 2
1859–60 Presbyterian Historical Almanac: listings, reviews, ads, and essays on Presbyterian polity, publications, institutions, and encouragements to family worship.
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The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and Annual Remembrancer of the Church, For 1858–1859, Vol. 1
Preface and introduction to The Presbyterian Historical Almanac (1858–59) by Joseph M. Wilson, compiling assemblies' discourses, statistical tables, historical sketches, portraits and church records.
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Rev. Jonathan Wilson, D.D., of the Laos Mission
Sept 1898 report on Protestant foreign missions: links missions to statesmanship and civilization; profiles missionaries to China, Siam/Laos; notes changing Hindu attitudes and Amida Buddhism.
The Dead of the Synod of Georgia: Necrology, or, Memorials of Deceased Ministers Who Have Died During the First Twenty Years After Its Organization
Necrology and memorials of ministers of the Synod of Georgia (1869), containing biographical sketches and a concise history of Presbyterianism's origin and progress in Georgia.
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