A Third Reformation Necessary:
James Dodson
1880-James Kerr.-A sermon calling for Christians to follow in the footsteps of the flock by adopting the piety, enlightened views and Christian patriotism of the Scottish martyrs.
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Church and State: Three Lectures.
James Dodson
1893-James Kerr.-A series of lectures examining three possible positions one may hold concerning the relation between church and state. First, the state might offer all religions equality which is a prescription for national disaster; second, the state might establish a church with its worship and discipline which is to offer dishonor to the church; third, the state might embrace the true religion and a Scriptural establish which is glorious.
Read MoreThe Scriptural Doctrines Violated by Ritualism.
James Dodson
1895-James Kerr.-An address given in 1894, at the National Protestant Congress, warning that ritualism in worship is contrary to the Regulative principle and subversive of Protestant doctrine.
Read MoreThe Attainments of the Church of the Second Reformation.
James Dodson
1896-James Kerr.-An address before the First International Reformed Presbyterian Convention, in which the Reformed Church of Scotland, at the time of the Second Reformation, is presented as Biblical, Calvinistic, covenanting and established.
Read MoreThe Scottish Martyrs Defended:
James Dodson
1902-James Kerr.-This 1902 pamphlet records a public meeting held in St. George’s Hall, Dumfries, featuring a lecture by Rev. James Kerr, D.D., defending the Scottish Covenanters against strictures made by Professor James Cooper during the recent dedication of a memorial to the Covenanting minister John Blackadder at Troqueer. Kerr’s discourse systematically refutes Cooper’s characterization of the Covenanters as fanatics, persecutors, and rebels, vindicating their resistance to Stuart despotism and their commitment to civil and religious liberty through detailed historical argument and appeals to original sources.
Read MoreThe Church Crisis in Scotland: Ecclesiastical, Theological, Parliamentary. A Lecture.
James Dodson
1905-James Kerr.-A Reformed Presbyterian assessment of the state of the remnant Free Church of Scotland, in 1905, shortly after the majority party united with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland to form the United Free Church of Scotland, in 1900.
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