1838-James Renwick Willson.-A sermon showing that Christ as Mediator is God equal with the Father, has received a mediatorial kingdom from the Father and that the law of God revealed in Scripture is his law binding all Christian nations in all things.
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1839-James R. Willson.-This paper, published in overture by the Synod, is an excellent overview of the Covenanter indictment of the civil institutions of the United States together with a very good critique of some of the deficiencies of the U.S. Constitution.
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1847-James Renwick Willson.-In this article, Willson discusses the place of deacons in the church consistory. He makes several interesting points respecting Presbyterian church government and also asserts that the office of deacon points to the mediatorial claims of Christ over temporal matters.
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1847-James Renwick Willson.-Dissent over the allowance of the Synod of 1847 dispensing with the necessity of lining of the Psalms in the public worship of God. Undoubtedly his reasons are still unpopular with those whose mindset rejects order and charity in the worship of God.
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1847-James Renwick Willson.-In this article, Willson decries the immorality which abounds in the literature of the heathen and the unsound principles which they might inculcate. Although a proponent of learning and mastering Latin, Greek and Hebrew, Willson does not wish to see the heathen classics made into schoolbooks corrupting the morals of the youth.
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1847-James Renwick Willson.-This unfinished piece, obviously written while the debate over deacons raged in the Reformed Presbyterian church, is burdened to demonstrate the continuity between the Levites and the New Testament deacons. Toward the close, Willson cautions against applying every passage about Levites to deacons because only one order of Levites were commissioned to teach and they are not comparable to the common deacon.
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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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