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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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Another Witness to the Egyptian Type of the Didache

Two poems celebrate the Bartholdi Statue and the enduring ideal of liberty; appended reports present missionary statistics showing growth of native agents, Christians, and communicants.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1886

Bickell on the Papyrus Fragment

A miscellany: a poem consoling a bereaved mother, an Ojibwa tribal song, and a travelogue of the Charleston earthquake describing devastation, relief efforts, and racial segregation; plus local Boston notes.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1886

New Testament Textual Criticism in 1885

Poems and essays addressing college moral and religious life—arguing for stronger Christian influence, temperance, and improved preaching; plus a note on New Testament textual criticism.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1886

Notes on the Didache

Warfield analyzes close parallels between the Didache and Pseudo-Athanasian tracts, arguing they preserve an ‘Egyptian’ Didache text and clarify its transmission and contents.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1886

Old-Latin Biblical Texts

Oct 1886 Sunday School Times: lessons and essays on the Resurrection (John 20), William Tyndale’s martyrdom, Patmos, teaching helps, antiquarian notes (John 19) and living by faith.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1886

Preparation for the Sacred Ministry; An Old-World View of the Matter

Argues pastors need rigorous humanities, biblical and theological training—philology, exegesis, seminary—to witness Christ faithfully and to engage critically with higher criticism.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1886

Some Difficult Passages in the First Chapter of 2 Corinthians

B. B. Warfield examines difficult readings in 2 Corinthians 1, weighing textual variants and clause order, and expounds Paul’s extreme sufferings (stoning at Lystra, trials at Ephesus).

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1886

Text, Sources, and Contents of “The Two Ways” or First Section of the Didache

Study of the Didache’s first six chapters (‘The Two Ways’): traces sources (Constantinople MS, Latin fragment, Barnabas, Canons, Constitutions), identifies recensions and textual relations.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1886

Textual Criticism of the Two Ways

Scholarly textual-criticism of ‘The Two Ways’ (Didache) with proposed emendations and a genealogical stemma of witnesses; plus a positive review of John Brown’s Life of Bunyan.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1886

The Prophecies of St. Paul: The Later Epistles

Scholarly survey of St. Paul’s eschatology in his later epistles, examining the Second Advent, resurrection, judgment, and the believer’s heavenly inheritance and conformity to Christ.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1886

The Prophecies of St. Paul: Thessalonians

Study of St. Paul’s prophetic teaching in the Thessalonian epistles, emphasizing the Second Coming, final judgment, resurrection, and pastoral correction of premature expectations.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1886

What Should Be the Attitude of the American Clergy Towards the Revised Version of the Scriptures?

Authors argue modern criticism has not subverted essential Christian doctrines. The Revised Version, though flawed, is substantially superior to the Authorized Version and should be fairly adopted.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1886

A Calm View of the Freedmen’s Case

Introduction to a Presbyterian magazine and an essay on the freedmen’s plight. Urges the Church to confront slavery’s legacy, overcome caste, and provide education and moral uplift.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1887

Introductory Essay on Augustin and the Pelagian Controversy

English edition of St. Augustine’s Anti‑Pelagian writings with introductory essays on Pelagianism, original sin, grace, free will, and predestination.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1887

New Testament Textual Criticism in 1886

Poetry and hymn notes, plus William G. Sumner’s essay warning against hasty railroad legislation—arguing competition’s limits and the harms of premature regulation.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1887

Recent American Literature on the New Testament

Survey of recent American New Testament scholarship, highlighting Thayer’s Greek-English lexicon, advances in textual criticism and manuscripts, biblical geography, Messianic studies, harmonies and commentaries.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1887

Some Exegetical Notes on 1 Timothy

Plato’s educational ideal is outlined as forming perfect citizens and lifelong moral development. Detailed exegetical notes on 1 Timothy examine its structure, public prayer, women’s conduct, and office-testing.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1887

“Drawing the Color Line”: A Fragment of History

Examines a 16th-century English Presbyterian congregation in Geneva—John Knox, annually elected ministers, elders and deacons, baptismal practices (godfathers→witnesses), and early Presbyterian polity.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1888

New Testament Textual Criticism in 1887

Selections from The Independent (1888): satirical verse and essays. Features a critique of the “New Departure”/Unitarian defection and a report on Kuyper's movement in the Dutch state church.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1888

The Idea of Systematic Theology Considered as a Science

Warfield argues systematic theology is a true science whose subject is God and His relations; it presupposes God’s reality, human cognitive capacity, and objective revelation.

B.B. Warfield ⬩ 1888

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Another Witness to the Egyptian Type of the Didache

Bickell on the Papyrus Fragment

New Testament Textual Criticism in 1885

Notes on the Didache

Old-Latin Biblical Texts

Preparation for the Sacred Ministry; An Old-World View of the Matter

Some Difficult Passages in the First Chapter of 2 Corinthians

Text, Sources, and Contents of “The Two Ways” or First Section of the Didache

Textual Criticism of the Two Ways

The Prophecies of St. Paul: The Later Epistles

The Prophecies of St. Paul: Thessalonians

What Should Be the Attitude of the American Clergy Towards the Revised Version of the Scriptures?

A Calm View of the Freedmen’s Case

Introductory Essay on Augustin and the Pelagian Controversy

New Testament Textual Criticism in 1886

Recent American Literature on the New Testament

Some Exegetical Notes on 1 Timothy

“Drawing the Color Line”: A Fragment of History

New Testament Textual Criticism in 1887

The Idea of Systematic Theology Considered as a Science

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