Special Pleading
Contents and excerpts from Lippincott's Magazine (Jan 1876): essays, fiction, sketches, and poems including Sidney Lanier's "Special Pleading," serialized pieces, and literary notes.
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Special Pleading
Tiger-Lilies: A Novel
Sidney Lanier's Tiger-Lilies opens with a poetic preface and pastoral scenes: a young poet reveres nature, art, and love amid Southern mountain landscapes.
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Rev. James Fair Latimer, D.D.: A Character Sketch
Sketches the founding of Union Theological Seminary and offers a character sketch of Dr. James B. Latimer, praising his manly scholarship, earnest preaching, and devoted ministry.
Sonship in the Family of God
Sermon on Christian sonship: through Christ believers receive legal adoption and new birth, the Spirit assures filial status, and growth in likeness to God follows.
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Baptism Under the Two Dispensations
Treats baptism as twofold: the Spirit's real baptism (union with Christ, regeneration) and water baptism as the sign of entry into the visible church, linked to OT purification rites.
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The Lollards
Survey of Wyclif and the Lollards: their opposition to papal wealth and abuses, promotion of English Scriptures and itinerant 'poor priests', and eventual persecution under Henry IV.
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The Influence of the Invisible Church upon the Visible Church in the Formulation of Her Creed
Argues the invisible Church (Spirit-led believers) guided the visible Church in forming creeds, resisting doctrinal errors on the Trinity and Christ's person. Critiques medieval priesthood and sacramental justification.
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Immediate Perception as Held by Reid and Hamilton Considered as a Refutation of the Skepticism of Hume
Examines Reid and Hamilton's Common Sense philosophy defending immediate perception and belief in an external world as a reply to Berkeley and Hume's skepticism.
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The General Assembly and the Columbia Seminary
Review article critiques the General Assembly's handling of Columbia Seminary chapel-attendance dispute, defends faculty authority, rejects 'Higher Law' claims, and urges discipline.
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An Examination of Certain Hypotheses Concerning Perception and Sensation
Examines the morality of actions and critiques philosophical hypotheses about perception and sensation. Argues for common-sense (natural) realism against hypothetical realism and skeptical axioms.
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History of the Associate Reformed Synod of the South, To Which Is Prefixed a History of the Associate Presbyterian and Reformed Presbyterian Churches
1882 history of the Associate Reformed Synod of the South tracing the 1733 Secession, Covenanters, migrations to America, and subsequent denominational unions and controversies.
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Biographical Sketch and Obituary of Rev. Sylvester Larned
1832 Annual of the Presbyterian Board of Education with a biographical sketch of Rev. Sylvester Larned: his education, revivalist ministry in New Orleans, missionary zeal, and death serving the sick.
The Doctrinal Issues Presented by the Case of Dr. M.H. Houston
1899 Presbyterian Quarterly analysis of the M. H. Houston case, debating perfectionism, Pelagian affinities, sanctification, and the influence of Keswick teaching on holiness doctrine.
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The Study of the English Bible with a View to Preaching It
Practical guidance for ministers to study the English Bible for preaching: mark strong texts, jot brief sermon outlines, compare parallel passages daily, and employ expository methods.
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The Spoiling of Dr. Dryasdust
Discusses St. John's use of miracles as apologetic proof (John 20; 14:11) and critiques seminary training for producing 'dry' preachers, urging homiletic study of the English Bible in pastoral theology.
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Pastoral Theology
Calls for stronger pastoral-theology instruction in seminaries—practical homiletics, extemporaneous preaching, visitation, evangelism and protracted meetings. Brief note on women's church rights.
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Iconoclasts
Claims Reformation iconoclasm removed idolatry but fostered neglect of church authority, worship, discipline, giving and prayer; urges a renewed reformation to restore these duties.
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