1848-James Renwick Willson.-In this article, Willson sets forth his vision for a truly Christian college. This is a college wherein both faculty and students are Christians striving together to improve their minds without sacrificing their spirits. Building on his desire to exclude heathen classics as textbooks, Willson advocates the use of Christian texts for better acquisition of Latin, Greek and Hebrew.
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1849-James Renwick Willson.-A terse defense of the binding obligation of the Solemn League and Covenant upon the United States. Willson treads where few American Reformed Presbyterians wish to go explicitly; yet, he demonstrates both the how and why of this obligation with arguments which every real Covenanter must acknowledge as demonstrations.
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1849-James Renwick Willson.-A short article calling for covenant renovation with special reference to the relation of the Solemn League and Covenant to the United States.
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1850-James Renwick Willson.-In the first letter, Willson describes the early growth of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America. He commends the acquisition of useful knowledge. The second letter details the organic growth of the church through large families and the education of the youth. It is of interest to see the thoroughness of reading encouraged.
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1850-James Renwick Willson.-This very short article calls for a renovation of covenants together with issuing a warning to public leaders using the example of Athaliah.
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1850-James Renwick Willson.-A short article pressing for covenant renewal, including the Solemn League and Covenant, because the signs of the times warrant such practice.
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Martin Luther.-Here is Luther's exposition of 1 Corinthians 13 where he takes up the nature and virtue of Christian love.
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1798-William Steven.-This Second Letter was published posthumously. Mr. Steven once more takes up the cause of the Reformed Presbytery against the accusations of the Secession church on the matter of civil magistracy. His first concern is to vindicate the position of Reformed Presbyterians on matter of paying of tribute, or taxations. The second section of the Letter contains an elaborate account of several important differences between the nature of the Reformation Church of Scotland and the Revolution Church of Scotland.
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Robert Traill.
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1815-Alexander McLeod.-Published after the War of 1812 had ended, these sermons contain a thorough discussion of numerous issues relating to just war theory and several other elements peculiar to that second war of independence.
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1817-Alexander McLeod.-In this review, McLeod demonstrates the confusion of Spring’s thought on the matter of election. This muddled thinking is the result of Gardiner Spring’s closeted reception of Hopkinsian views which distort Calvinism into a strange form of Arminianized supralapsarianism.
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1817-Alexander McLeod.-In this review, McLeod takes on the various errors of Hopkinsianism more directly and begins to expose their errant Calvinism. It is regrettable that their pretensions to supralapsarianism made 19th century Calvinists of the high Calvinism of the earlier Reformers. Nonetheless, Hopkinsian views of the atonement smack of hypothetical redemption.
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1817-Alexander McLeod.-This review, which ran over three issues of the periodical in which it appeared, canvases several matters that separate evangelicals from the high church party in the Episcopal church. McLeod’s foil is Thomas How, an Episcopalian of the highest sort. This review points out the ease with which Episcopalianism has tolerated even the worst heresies as long as they held to apostolic succession of hierarchical bishops.
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1850-James Renwick Willson.-In this third letter, Willson explains the growth of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the west. He speaks of the accessions from various Presbyterian bodies in England, Scotland and Ireland, especially those which used the 1650 Psalter.
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1851-James Renwick Willson.-In this introductory lecture at the theological school of the Reformed Presbyterian church, Dr. Willson gives his catalog of the pagan and worldly elements which have entered the church. He explains how the lust of the eye and the pride of life have allowed practices, including the use of immoral pagan literature and opulent forms of worship, into the life of the church.
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1851-James Renwick Willson.-In his final letter from the West, Willson describes the state of people, including members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, as the push west of the Allegheny mountains to settle land previously unsettled. Willson’s account is blunt in describing the life of the pioneer on the American frontier.
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1817-Alexander McLeod.-Arguing from the various facets of the exercise of the Mediatorial office, McLeod sets forth and defends the true and proper Divinity of our Lord. Though short, this article is very suggestive and explains why the mediatorial office necessitates the Godhead of Christ.
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1851-James Renwick Willson.-This address attacks the Fugitive Slave Act. Its value stands in its testimony against the practice of negro slavery, which was officially opposed by the Reformed Presbyterians in America as early as 1800. It also contains guidance on matters of civil disobedience and resistance to ungodly laws.
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1852-James Renwick Willson.-In this short article, Willson discusses the identity of Gog and Magog. He relates them to the battle of Armageddon and the restoration and conversion of the Jews.
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1852-James Renwick Willson.-In this short article, Willson discusses the metaphor of the flying roll and its meaning for the times. He sees it as an emblem for Gospel times, toward the end of the apostasy, when ungodly powers are being brought to their knees.
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