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The Testimony of Justin Martyr to Early Christianity

Lectures on Justin Martyr's testimony to early Christianity, covering apologetics, the New Testament canon, church order, and philosophy's (Logos) influence. Advocates patristic study.
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The Reading in Acts XI.20

Essay contrasts Milton and Tennyson; then examines textual criticism of Acts 11:20 and Heb. 4's 'sabbaticos' with manuscript evidence. Notes discovery at Pithom‑Succoth.
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Theodorick Pryor, D.D.

Necrological sketches of Theodorick Pryor and Oren C. Thompson—19th-century Presbyterian ministers, summarizing their ministries, marriages, Civil War service, and deaths.

JohnWilliams Proudfit

Biographical sketch of John W. Proudfit (and Dr. Pond): scholar, pastor, prolific writer and editor, teacher at Rutgers and Princeton, who served as a Civil War chaplain and pastor.

The Nature of True Greatness

Sermon urging pursuit of holy greatness: true greatness is sanctified by love and fear of God, not worldly fame. God alone makes men great; aim to glorify Him.
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Homeric Ideas of the Soul and a Future Life

Examines German skepticism about Homeric beliefs: Voelcker's claim that Homer viewed psyche as breath/life, not an immortal soul, and critiques his philological argument.
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Catechetical Instruction Before the Reformation

Two essays arguing the church’s duty in educating children: children included in the covenant (Gen. 7), and the historic primacy of oral catechetical instruction before the Reformation.
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Dr. Schaff’s Works on Church History

Review praising Dr. Schaff's church-history volumes and urging a critical, people-centered, scriptural approach to writing ecclesiastical history from apostolic times onward.
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The New Brunswick Review, Vol. 1

Review of Philip Schaff's church-history works urging critical, people-centered ecclesiastical historiography that exposes monastic/papal distortions and recovers the church's popular life.
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The Heidelberg Catechism and Dr. Nevin

Review of works on Christian archaeology and a study of catechetical instruction, emphasizing the early church's oral teaching, the Heidelberg Catechism, and Reformation catechisms.
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Inspiration and Catholicism

Defends biblical inspiration against Professor Scherer's repudiation of New Testament authority. Warns that modern innovations undermine Scripture and endanger the church.
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The Captives: A Comedy of Plautus

Edition of Plautus' comedy The Captives with English notes by John Proudfit (1843). Preface praises its moral purity, discusses comic metres, and its use in classical education.
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Dr. Proudfit’s Address to Emigrants

1835 African Repository piece on Southern response to abolitionists and Colonization. Dr. Proudfit urges Liberian emigrants to be industrious, temperate, economical, and Christian in conduct.
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