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The Sovereignty of God, Especially in Election

A sermon defending God's sovereign foreordination (efficacious and permissive), arguing it secures prayer, upholds human liberty, and is grounded in Scripture against common objections.
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Memoir of Mrs. Louisa A. Lowrie

Mission society reports: voyages to Liberia and a memoir of Mrs. Louisa A. Lowrie—her missionary zeal, prolonged illness, and peaceful death in Calcutta after devoted service.

Scripture Baptism: Its Mode and Subjects

A 19th-century defense of pouring/sprinkling and infant baptism as scriptural, arguing mode is of minor importance. Critiques Baptist insistence that immersion is essential.
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Daniel Cargill Faris

Comprehensive 1888 history of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America, containing sketches and biographies of ministers, congregations, missions, institutions, and publications.
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The Church a Quiet Habitation

1872 memorial volume of the Reformed Presbyterian Synod: table of addresses with sermons including "The Church a Quiet Habitation" (isaiah 33) and "Jehovah-jireh" (genesis 22).
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Practical Dissent Still Obligatory

Calls Christians to refuse and publicly dissent from a secular Constitution that excludes God's authority, urging church testimony and separation. Notes Roman Catholic missions among Southern blacks.
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Our Terms of Communion

Two essays: one traces belief in bodily resurrection in the Old Testament and its Messianic import; the other defends strict Covenanter terms of communion, discipline, and separation from ungodly polity.
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The Female Deacon and the Sentimental Overflow of Synod

Coverage of Covenanters at Gettysburg defending the Union and opposing slavery. Reports a Synod debate charging haste in allowing female deacons and a service commemorating 1688's end of persecution.
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David Smith Faris

History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America (1888) by W. M. Glasgow: denominational history with sketches, biographies, congregations, missions, institutions and illustrations.
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