Necessary Qualifications for Civil Rulers
Argues Prohibitionists should form a third party, paralleling anti-slavery movements; condemns liquor traffic and asserts civil rulers must be just and fear God.
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Archives
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.
Necessary Qualifications for Civil Rulers
The New American Latin Grammar
New American Latin Grammar (1807). A comprehensive early-19th-century primer introducing Latin orthography, etymology, syntax, prosody, punctuation, and parts of speech.
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December 3, 1755 Letter
Magazine extracts: poems and an 1755 letter by Aaron Burr on Princeton College's building, funding, students, and God's providence in Braddock's defeat.
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Aaron Burr
Biographical notice of Aaron Burr (1715–1757), Presbyterian minister and president of the College of New Jersey; his conversion to Calvinism, role in revivals, and educational labors.
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Aaron Burr, D.D.
Encyclopedia of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. Contains biographical sketches, institutional histories, revivals, and educational and ecclesiastical records.
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The Religions of the World: An Outline of the Great Religious Systems
Outline of world religions, focusing on fetishism: its definition, global examples, and its place among primitive faiths. Preface argues Christianity's uniqueness and supremacy.
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The Gospel of Gladness
A 19th-century devotional urging Christians to rejoice in salvation, celebrate God's goodness in daily life, and seek communion with God in secret prayer.
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The Morning Cometh: Talks for the Times
Collection of sermons by Rev. David J. Burrell urging watchmen to proclaim Christ as the dawn. Themes: sin's darkness, Christ the Sun of Righteousness, church progress and missions.
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The Religion of the Future
Defends traditional Christianity against liberal theology, affirming God, providence, prayer, Scripture, the atonement, and immortality.
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The Spirit of the Age, and Other Sermons
Survey of the 'spirit of the age': age of light, reason, humanitarian reform, and missionary zeal. Affirms Christ and Scripture as central and warns against replacing evangelism with mere social reform.
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For Christ’s Crown, and Other Sermons
Sermon affirming Christ's kingship and the Kingdom of God, urging confession, absolute obedience, and missionary zeal to advance His reign.
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The Golden Passional, and Other Sermons
Sermons on Christ's vicarious suffering and substitutionary atonement, centered on Isaiah 53 and its New Testament fulfillment. Affirms justification by sacrifice and urges evangelism.
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The Wondrous Cross, and Other Sermons
A sermon asserting the vicarious death of Christ as the central truth of Christianity; denying it undermines Scripture, history, and salvation.
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God and the People, and Other Sermons
Sermon: God cares for all people. The Church must preach the gospel and pursue social philanthropy, following Christ's teaching and example.
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The Characteristic and Distinctive Features of the Reformed Church in America
Historical overview of the Reformed Church in America: origins with Dutch settlers (early 1600s), its polity, doctrines, missions, institutions, and growth up to 1900.
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The Unaccountable Man
Explores Christ's person and claims, arguing Jesus is either divine or not merely a good man. A collection of sermons including the Beatific Vision and Gospel reflections.
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Song of Solomon
Defends the Song of Solomon's canonicity and devotional use, rebutting critics. Argues Old Testament rites and typology illuminate Christian love and salvation.
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The Sacred Scriptures and Pagan Mythology: An Inaugural Address
Inaugural address asserting the Bible is the key to interpreting pagan mythology—whose gods arise from deified ancestors—and urging classical studies be read in light of Scripture.
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A Discourse Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church of Easton, Pa., on the Day of the Annual Thanksgiving, November 27, 1851
1851 Thanksgiving sermon by Rev. George Burrowes praising America's blessings and Providence, tracing civil and religious liberty to the Reformation and Christianity, urging gratitude and vigilance.
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A Commentary on the Song of Solomon
1853 commentary on the Song of Solomon defending its canonicity and allegorical reading, expounding divine love, sanctification, and principles of interpretation to nourish devotion.
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