A Significant Confession
Defends the historical trustworthiness of Acts and critiques skeptical critics for misdating and rejecting documents. Argues modern doubt is inquiry rather than outright denial.
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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.
A Significant Confession
How to Make Our Brief Course in Church History Most Profitable: Inaugural Address
Advocates teaching Church History through the Bible to reveal God's providence and sustain faith and hope amid apostasy. Connects Presbyterian church development to American liberty.
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The Credulity of Our Age
1899 Presbyterian Quarterly essay arguing the 'enlightened' age remains credulous—examines Mormonism, Spiritualism, and other superstitions as persistent organized deceptions.
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Pope Leo XIII. on the Validity of Anglican Orders
Discusses Pope Leo XIII's rejection of Anglican orders, arguing over apostolic succession, sacramental priesthood, and the ecumenical consequences for Anglican–Catholic relations.
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The Vrooman Case
Defends regeneration as a real, Spirit-wrought change and opposes a proposed revision to the Confession. Describes the Vrooman case: a minister accused of denying atonement, imputed righteousness, and eternal punishment.
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Missionary Pastors
An 1895 address urging pastors to cultivate missionary zeal. It argues the church has one field (the world), one work (evangelism), and one motive (obedience to Christ).
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A Modern Jehu
Presbyterian Quarterly (1892) defends the soul's immortality and biblical authority, critiquing the methods and conclusions of higher criticism as dangerous to Christian faith.
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Primary Principles of Presbyterian Polity
Discusses the 'negro question' and sectional church tensions, and expounds Presbyterian polity—arguing elders' scriptural continuity and plural governance in congregations.
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The Southern Presbyterian Church and the Freedmen
Professor A. Woodrow critiques the Southern Presbyterian Church's inadequate post‑emancipation work among freedmen—sparse funding, few organized churches, and ineffective ministerial training at Tuskaloosa Institute.
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The Supremacy of the Ancient Classics
Contends that Latin and Greek dominate college curricula, consuming students' time and crowding out sciences and modern studies; urges a rebalancing of education.
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The Church and Temperance
1881 Presbyterian article emphasizes the deacon's office and urges the Church to combat intemperance—condemning liquor traffic and advocating moral leadership and abstinence.
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The Christian Traveller
Isaac Reed's 1817–1828 travel narrative recounting journeys, preaching, and church-planting in New England, Kentucky, and Indiana. Dedicated to domestic missionary societies and Providence.
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October 5, 1819 Letter to the Missionary Society of Connecticut
Piece on holy gratitude—distinguishing natural thankfulness from Christian gratitude grounded in dependence on God's providence. Includes missionary reports urging domestic mission work.
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April 26, 1819 Letter to the Missionary Society of Connecticut
Account of Jesuit missions to Abyssinia and the Ethiopian Church's history. Also missionary letters (1819) reporting Presbyterian frontier work, church planting, and baptisms in Indiana and Illinois.
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An Account of the Yellow Fever as it Prevailed in Philadelphia in the Autumn of 1762: A Paper Presented to the College of Physicians …, September 7, 1793
John Redman's 1793 manuscript recounts Philadelphia's 1762 yellow fever outbreak, describing origin, symptoms, spread, and treatments, alongside his medical biography and practice.
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The Address of the President, Dr. John Redman, Thanking the College for His Reelection, August 2, 1791
1791 address by Dr. John Redman to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, thanking members for re-election, mourning a deceased colleague, and commending the new vice-president.
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Inaugural Address to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Dr. John Redman's 1787 inaugural address to the College of Physicians invokes God's guidance (Proverbs 3) and presents a memorial warning Pennsylvania legislators about the medical harms of distilled spirits.
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