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Funeral Sermon for Jacob Jones Janeway

Charles Hodge’s funeral sermon for Rev. Jacob J. Janeway honors his faithful ministry, frames life as warfare between Christ and Satan, and emphasizes deliverance by supernatural conversion.
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The State of the Country (Princeton Review)

1861 essay argues the U.S. is a single moral and geographic nation; it condemns Southern secession as unjust and self-serving, urging fidelity to oaths and union.
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Can God Be Known?

Essay analyzes whether God can be known, surveying pantheistic/transcendental philosophers (Hegel, Schelling, Mansel, Hamilton) and arguing for knowledge of God through revelation.
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The General Assembly 1864 (Princeton Review)

1864 General Assembly (Presbyterian) addressing hymnbook revision, ministerial salary increases and sustentation amid wartime, national prayer, and Book of Discipline reform.
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The General Assembly 1865 (Princeton Review)

1865 General Assembly: creates an Assembly’s Commission of Appeals to handle church appellate jurisdiction and recommends a centralized, temporary agency for freedmen’s education.
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The General Assembly 1867 (Princeton Review)

Proceedings of the 1867 Presbyterian General Assembly detailing reunion terms between Old and New-school branches, elections, commissions, committees, and organizational recommendations.
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Presbyterian Reunion

Examines the 1868 debate over reunion of Old- and New-School Presbyterians, contrasting strict subscription to the Westminster Confession with the New School’s doctrinal latitude and the consequences for union.
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Preaching the Gospel to the Poor

Argues the church must prioritize preaching the Gospel to the poor, critiques Presbyterian systems that neglect them, and urges collective church support for ministers to reach the poor.
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Retrospect of the History of the Princeton Review

Preface and index to the Princeton Review (1825–1868). Chronicles the journal's history, contributors, and controversies over education, missions, and Presbyterian church polity.
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Systematic Theology, Volume 2

Charles Hodge's Systematic Theology Vol. II examines anthropology: origin and nature of man, soul, original righteousness and fall, and debates (creationism, traducianism, Darwinism) and sin.
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Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (1835)

Hodge surveys Paul's background, education, conversion, and apostolic authority, and outlines the origin, Jewish–Gentile composition, and condition of the early Roman church.
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Christianity Without Christ

Charles Hodge argues that true Christianity centers on Christ—his person, incarnation, and saving work; without Christ Christianity reduces to mere moralism or natural religion.
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Mr. Editor

Obituary and character sketch of Rev. Joseph Patterson—his piety, cheerfulness, steadfast worship, and pastoral example—followed by missionary reports from South Africa noting conversions and challenges.
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The Gospel the Only True Reformer (1745)

Intro to David Brainerd’s Indian missions arguing the gospel—Christ crucified—and Spirit-wrought regeneration, not external reforms, is the only true means of lasting reformation.
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A Protestation Presented to the Synod (1741)

Excerpt recounts the 1741 Old Side protestation in the American Presbyterian Church, accusing dissenters of anti‑Presbyterian practices and defending confessional authority and church order.
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