The Inquisition
Review condemning the Inquisition and Bishop Kenrick’s defense of papal primacy, tracing historical abuses and citing Llorente, Dellon, and others to expose ecclesiastical tyranny.
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Archives
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The Inquisition
The Saint and the Sinner
Contrasts the saint and the sinner, detailing Christian character, conversion, justification, and sanctification. Emphasizes paradoxes of faith and holy living.
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A Chapter of Repentance
Condemns facile legislative divorces as undermining the sacred, lifelong marriage covenant and social order. Also praises Christ's confidential friendship, offering comfort and joy.
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The Efficiency of the Church
Inaugural sermon on the efficiency of the Church, urging personal piety, fervent prayer, zeal, and faithful ministry to revive congregational growth and reform.
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The Works of Algernon Sidney
Biographical sketch of Algernon Sidney, praising his steadfast commitment to liberty, opposition to tyranny, exile, trial, and execution for republican principles.
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Great Students of the Bible
A plea for the Otoe Indians after a Sioux attack urging Christian sympathy and mission. Reports on Lafayette College commencement and a critique of inadequate pastoral support.
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Life of Socrates
1851 Princeton Review pieces: essays on missions and a detailed biography of Socrates—his life, philosophy, family, military service, trial, and death (he repeats Psalm 51).
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Popery: Bellarmine’s Fifteenth Mark of a Church
Argues against Bellarmine’s claim that temporal prosperity marks the true Church, citing Scripture and history showing God’s people often suffer. Affirms persecution as the Church’s witness.
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Satan’s Temptations
Essay contrasts extemporaneous preaching with written sermons and offers devotional meditations: death as Christ’s victory, resisting Satan’s temptations, and the shortness of time to serve God.
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South Carolina and the Union
Mid-19th-century Richmond newspaper page with ads (timber sale, bridge bids, stallion stud), a runaway slave reward, and local items on President Fillmore’s visit and the new steamship Roanoke.
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Christ the Forerunner
1852 pieces defending Christianity against deism, portraying Christ as our forerunner, and offering gospel consolation in death with hope of the resurrection.
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Man Responsible for His Belief
Plumer argues that humans are morally responsible for their beliefs: faith must be reasonable and grounded in testimony, evidence, and sound reasoning; blind rejection is condemned.
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The Grace of Christ
A clear exposition that salvation is by Christ’s unmerited grace. Surveys human sinfulness, atonement, justification, regeneration, and consolation in divine grace.
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The Incomprehensibility of God’s Nature and Ways
Sermon on the incomprehensibility of God’s nature and ways: God’s infinite attributes and the Trinity, human inability to fully comprehend Him, with Scripture proofs and pastoral reassurance.
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Addresses Delivered at the Inauguration of Rev. Wm. S. Plumer, D.D. as Professor of Didactic and Pastoral Theology in the Western Theological Seminary
1854 inaugural address by W.S. Plumer on training ministers: Scripture-centered didactic and pastoral theology, combining rigorous scholarship, personal piety, and balanced systematic instruction.
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Is the Church of Rome Idolatrous?
A 1854 critique arguing that Roman Catholic devotion to the pope, Mary, and the saints amounts to idolatry and usurps Christ’s sole mediatorship, contrary to Scripture.
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Rome Against the Bible, and the Bible Against Rome
An 1854 polemic by W. S. Plumer arguing that Jewish Pharisaic legalism and Roman Catholic tradition usurp Scripture, opposing private judgment and free circulation of the Bible.
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A Declining Church
Biblical illustrations from Palestine (ploughs, tents) and an essay on declining churches warning against doctrinal drift—especially errors about justification.
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December 1855 Letter to the Central Presbyterian
Editorial urges presbyteries to oversee distribution of religious books. Pastors and elders must personally promote colportage to strengthen and spread Christ’s kingdom.
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