On Ministerial Character and Duty
Witherspoon urges ministers to be genuine Christians: personal piety must shape their knowledge, diligence, impartiality, and pastoral care for effective ministry.
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On Ministerial Character and Duty
Seeking a Competency in the Wisdom of Providence
Witherspoon expounds Proverbs 30:8, urging prayer for a measured provision—neither poverty nor riches—trusting God’s providence, cultivating contentment and humble submission.
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The Danger of Adversity
A sermon arguing that poverty often tempts people to fraud and dishonesty. It exhorts integrity, diligence, gratitude, reliance on God’s aid, and avoidance of sinful circumstances.
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The Danger of Prosperity
Witherspoon warns that prosperity often breeds pride, forgetfulness of God, and vice; he urges humility, gratitude, and generous use of riches as safeguards.
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Trust in God [No. 1]
John Witherspoon urges believers to trust God amid darkness and trials, defining the fearful, causes of spiritual darkness, and the grounds for reliance on God’s promises. He grounds trust in God’s providence and covenantal promises.
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Trust in God [No. 2]
John Witherspoon’s sermon ‘Trusting God’ examines God’s promises—absolute and conditional—and urges humble, diligent faith and obedience, relying on divine grace and providence.
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The Works of John Witherspoon, Vol. 1
Collected sermons and treatises (incl. funeral discourse) by/relating to Princeton’s late president, addressing regeneration, justification, atonement, and pastoral exhortation.
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The Works of John Witherspoon, Vol. 3
Sermon exploring the Scripture meaning of charity, arguing charity is ardent love (not mere forbearance), outlining limits to charity and the duty to rebuke error.
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The Reasonableness of Christianity, in Four Sermons
Preface to four sermons defending Christianity by rational argument: God’s attributes, human apostasy, prophecy, and miracles attest Christ’s divine mission. Aimed to refute sceptics.
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