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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.

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Satan Stripp’d of His Angelic Robe: Being an Abridgment of the Substance of Several Sermons

Samuel Finley ⬩ 1743

Clear Light Put in Obscure Darkness: Being an Examination and Refutation of Mr. Thompson’s Sermon, Entituled, The Doctrine of Convictions Set in a Clear Light

Samuel Finley ⬩ 1743

A Charitable Plea for the Speechless: Or, The Right of Believers-Infants to Baptism Vindicated: And the Mode of It by Pouring or Sprinkling Justified

Samuel Finley ⬩ 1746

A Vindication of the Charitable Plea for the Speechless: In Answer to Mr. Abel Morgan’s Antipaedorantism

Samuel Finley ⬩ 1748

The Approved Minister of God: A Sermon Preach’d at the Ordination of the Reverend John Rodgers

Samuel Finley ⬩ 1749

Faithful Ministers the Fathers of the Church: A Sermon Preached at Fogs-Mannor on Occasion of the Death of the Reverend Mr. Samuel Blair

Samuel Finley ⬩ 1751

The Madness of Mankind, Represented in a Sermon Preached in the New Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia the 9th of June 1754

Samuel Finley ⬩ 1754

The Power of Gospel Ministers, and the Efficacy of Their Ministrations, Represented in a Sermon, Preached at New-Ark, … September 26, 1754

Samuel Finley ⬩ 1755

The Detection Detected, or a Vindication of the Rev’d Mr. Delap and New Castle Presbytery (1757)

Samuel Finley ⬩ 1757

The Successful Minister of Christ Distinguished in Glory: A Sermon, Occasioned by the Death of the Late Reverend Mr. Gilbert Tennent

Samuel Finley ⬩ 1764

June 3, 1765 Letter to Eleazar Wheelock

Samuel Finley ⬩ 1765

An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd, Minister of the Gospel… Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings (1749)

Jonathan Edwards presents the life and diary of David Brainerd, an 18th-century missionary to Native Americans. It recounts his conversion struggles, deep piety, and ministerial labors.

David Brainerd ⬩ 1793

A Narrative of the Imprisonment of Two Non-Conformist Ministers

Record of the 1704 arrest and trial of Presbyterian ministers Francis Makemie and John Hampton in New York for preaching without Lord Cornbury’s license. Details the legal dispute over the Act of Toleration.

Francis Makemie, John Hampton ⬩ 1707

Journal, Vol. 1

William Henry Foote ⬩ 1794

A Clear Demonstration of a Righteous and Ungodly Man, in Their Frame, Way and End. Containing Five Excellent Sermons, Preached in the Dutch Tongue

Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen ⬩ 1731

A Poem, on the Rise and Progress of Moor’s Indian Charity-School, … It’s Removal and Settlement in Hanover, and the Founding a Church in the Same

Levi Frisbie ⬩ 1771

An Oration, Delivered at Ipswich, … on the Twenty-Ninth of April, 1783; on Account of the … Peace Between Great-Britain and the United States of America

Levi Frisbie ⬩ 1783

A Sermon Delivered February 19, 1795: the Day of Public Thanksgiving Through the United States. Recommended by the President

Levi Frisbie ⬩ 1795

The Nature and Effects of the Works of Darkness Detected and Displayed, in Two Discourses, … April 4, 1799, on the Anniversary Fast Day

Levi Frisbie ⬩ 1799

An Eulogy on the Illustrious Character of the Late General George Washington, … Delivered at Ipswich, on the 7th day of January, 1800

Levi Frisbie ⬩ 1800

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