As Much as Last Year
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Church news: large bequest and growing missions movement, student volunteers, campus religious care efforts and Salvation Army expansion; freedmen schools face funding shortfalls.
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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.
As Much as Last Year
December 25, 1758 Letter to Samuel Davies
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1840 Princeton Review: notes on Butler’s sermons on human nature and detailed 1758–59 correspondence over the New Jersey College presidency (Davies, Halsey, Finley).
David Cowell
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Biographical sketches of early American Presbyterian ministers to 1760, focusing on David Cowell and Charles Tennent, controversies, and ties to the College of New Jersey.
David Cowell
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Biographical sketches of 18th-century American Presbyterian clergy, detailing lives, ministry, piety, and collegiate service. Includes funeral-sermon reference to Hebrews 4:11.
An Address, Adapted to the Monthly Concert for Prayer
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1829 address urging renewed prayer and missionary zeal ('Thy kingdom come'), lamenting declining concert attendance and calling for support of domestic missions on the Missouri frontier.
The Law of God
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Sermon on the law of God (Rom. 7:12): defines the moral law, its authority and penalty (judicial death), and argues God's right as Creator to legislate; distinguishes law from the gospel.
Reply of Dr. Cox
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Dr. Cox replies defending his sermon on regeneration, arguing for instantaneous new birth and the Spirit's agency. He also discusses baptismal modes and sacred eloquence.
Quakerism Not Christianity
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1833 polemic by Samuel H. Cox renouncing Quaker 'inward light' as contrary to biblical revelation. Defends Scripture's authority and apostolic sacraments.
The Ministry We Need: Three Inaugural Discourses Delivered at Auburn, June 18, 1835
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Inaugural sermon asserting that genuine emotion is necessary for effective preaching and pastoral ministry, illustrated from Paul's tears and ministerial duties.
Introduction to Missionary Remains: Or, Sketches of the Lives of Evarts, Cornelius, and Wisner
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Memorial sketches of missionaries Evarts, Cornelius, and Wisner, lamenting their early deaths and urging self-examination and renewed zeal for foreign missions.
Introduction to William Jay, Slavery in America
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Preface to William Jay's Inquiry condemning American slavery and the Colonization Society. Urges British Christians to support abolition and denounces ministers' complicity.
Correspondence on the Principles of Right Reasoning, Applicable to Temperance, and to the Effects of Fermented and Distilled Liquors
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1836 pamphlet of letters debating temperance: whether fermented vs distilled liquors differ and if abstinence should be universal. Hopkins and Smith argue effects and strategy.
Introduction to Edward Norris Kirk, Sermons on Different Subjects
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Introduction to Edward N. Kirk's 1842 sermon collection, explaining that proceeds will aid indigent theology students and urging appreciation of native religious literature.
Theopneuston: Or, Select Scriptures Considered
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Preface to Theopneuston (1842) by Samuel H. Cox defending Scripture's divine inspiration and urging careful study and thinking; aimed at Bible classes and Sabbath-school teachers.
The Dead Are the Living: A Sermon Preached on Lord’s Day Afternoon, October 1, 1843, on Occasion of the Funeral of Mrs. Mary L.
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Funeral sermon defending the resurrection and human immortality, refuting the Sadducees by Scripture (Matt. 22; Exod. 3), and consoling believers with hope of eternal life.
Introduction to and Continuation of Archibald Bower, The History of the Popes, Vol. 1
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1844 advertisement and endorsements for Archibald Bower's History of the Popes — a Protestant reprint promoting its value in exposing papal abuses and urging wide republication.
Introduction to and Continuation of Archibald Bower, The History of the Popes, Vol. 2
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Volume II of Archibald Bower's The History of the Popes: an alphabetical catalogue of popes and narratives of medieval papal authority, councils, and appeals (e.g., Wilfrid).
Introduction to and Continuation of Archibald Bower, The History of the Popes, Vol. 3
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Account from Archibald Bower's History of the Popes on Clement IV: his election, reforms, and dealings with Charles of Anjou over Sicily and papal authority.
Introductory Letter to Benjamin I. Lane, The Mysteries of Tobacco
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1845 anti-tobacco tract by Rev. Benjamin I. Lane (intro by S. H. Cox, letter from J.Q. Adams) arguing tobacco is filthy, harmful to body, mind, and morals, and costly.
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