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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.
A History of Long Island, From Its First Settlement by Europeans, to the Year 1845, With Special Reference to Its Ecclesiastical Concerns
Preface and contents of an 1845 history of Long Island covering physical features, civil affairs, and detailed ecclesiastical annals: denominations, ministers, missions, and Indian affairs.
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The Year of Jubilee; But Not to Africans: A Discourse, Delivered July 4th, 1825, Being the 49th Anniversary of American Independence
Nathaniel S. Prime's 1825 July 4 sermon "The Year of Jubilee" argues that the Declaration's 'all men are created equal' forbids American slavery, urging moral consistency and Scriptural duty.
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A Familiar Illustration of Christian Baptism: In Which the Proper Subjects of That Ordinance and the Mode of Administration are Ascertained …
A pro‑paedobaptist dialogue defending infant baptism and opposing Baptist immersion. Argues from Scripture, covenant theology, and patristic and historical evidence.
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The Pernicious Effects of Intemperance in the Use of Ardent Spirits, and the Remedy for That Evil: A Sermon … Nov. 5, 1811
1812 sermon condemning intemperance and ardent spirits, detailing physical, moral and social harms and urging remedies and reform, based on Prov. 23:29–35.
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Notes Genealogical, Biographical and Bibliographical, of the Prime Family
Genealogical and biographical notes on the Prime family, recounting their Puritan exodus, settlement at Milford Plantation, land records, wills, and ministers like Rev. Ebenezer Prime.
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Forty Years in the Turkish Empire; or, Memoirs of Rev. William Goodell, D.D.
Memoir of Rev. William Goodell's 40 years as an American missionary in the Ottoman Empire: Bible translation, schools, persecutions, revivals, and founding Protestant churches.
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Civil and Religious Liberty in Turkey
Two essays: one traces Presbyterian contributions to American national character and Revolutionary-era influence; the other surveys Ottoman reforms toward civil and religious liberty, noting the Hatti Sherif of Gulhane.
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Around the World: Sketches of Travel Through Many Lands and Over Many Seas
E.D.G. Prime's 1870 travel sketches record a year-long circumnavigation, describing landscapes, peoples, religions, and missionary work across Japan, China, India, and America.
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Records of the First Church in Huntington, Long Island, 1723–1779
Registers of the First Church, Huntington (1723–1779) by Rev. Ebenezer Prime: membership lists, 2,381 baptisms, 822 marriages, confession of faith, trials, and parish notes.
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Ebenezer Prime
Biographical notices of Presbyterian clergy (David McGregore, Ebenezer Prime) covering ministry, family, writings, education, and wartime hardships in colonial and early‑Republic Long Island.
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Muscipula Sive Cambromyomachia: The Mouse-Trap, or, The Battle of the Welsh and the Mice; In Latin and English: With Other Poems, In Different Languages
1840 anthology of Latin and English poems featuring 'Muscipula' (The Mouse-Trap), with translations, notes, and a preface urging classical language study and literary cultivation.
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July 2, 1840 Letter to John Finley Crowe
Listing of Hanover College manuscript/document printview items from the college's digital collection (im-hanover-MSS1_Box1_F15_3_001–003).
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The Religious Situation of Britain at the Time of the Meeting of the Westminster Assembly
Survey of Britain's religious situation leading to the Westminster Assembly—English and Scottish influences, Puritanism's rise, and conflict with episcopacy and monarchy.
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Theological Education in Universities
Two essays: one corrects popular misconceptions of Presbyterianism and Calvinism; the other argues ministers should be trained in universities rather than isolated seminaries.
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Some Reminiscences of Dr. J.G. Shepperson
Central Presbyterian (Jan 17, 1900): devotional essays (The Holly Tree), church news and Bible-study plans, Synod tracts, Presbyterian polity disputes, and reminiscences of ministers.
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Sermons, Vol. 2
Sermon on the nature and consequences of sin: its opposition to God's holiness, its deadly and eternal penalties, and the necessity of Christ's atoning death for sinners' salvation.
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Sermons, Vol. 1
Biographical memoir and edited collection (1857) of Rev. Willard Preston's sermons, addressing salvation, the atonement, faith, heaven, pastoral ministry, and Christian life.
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An Oration Delivered Before the Union Society in Savannah, April Twenty-Third, 1833, Its Eighty-Third Anniversary
Willard Preston's 1833 oration for the Union Society (Savannah) celebrates 83 years of practical charity—educating orphans, promoting industry, and sustaining permanent benevolence.
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