Use the form on the right to contact us.
You can edit the text in this area, and change where the contact form on the right submits to, by entering edit mode using the modes on the bottom right.
123 Street Avenue, City Town, 99999
(123) 555-6789
email@address.com
You can set your address, phone number, email and site description in the settings tab.
Link to read me page with more information.
George Gillespie was son of John Gillespie, minister at Kirkaldy. He was born in 1613. In 1629, he was sent to the University of St. Andrews to prosecute his studies. When he had completed his academic career, and was ready to enter into the office of the ministry, his progress was...
Read MoreCalvin was born in Noyon, France, on July 10, 1509. He received formal instruction for the priesthood at the Collège de la Marche and the Collège de Montaigue, branches of the University of Paris. Encouraged by his father to study law instead of theology, Calvin also attended universities at Orléans and Bourges.
Read MoreMartin Luther was born in Eisleben, Germany, the son of Hans Luther, who worked in the copper mines, and his wife Margarethe. He went to school at Magdeburg and Eisenach, and entered the University of Erfurt in 1501, graduating with a BA in 1502 and an MA in 1505. His father wished him to be a lawyer...
Read More1687-Alexander Shields.-A thorough survey of the history of the Scottish church which contains many hints on church communion together with several chapters devoted to Covenanter controversies.
Read More1824-Samuel Miller.-Dr. Miller explains the purpose of creeds and their necessity to testimony bearing and avoiding communion with corrupt ecclesiastical constitutions.
Read More1835-Samuel Miller.-A missionary sermon which is both description and prescriptive about the task of the church in evangelizing and the glory that will be its future. This is a sermon brimming with the kind of optimism that only the postmillennial vision can convey.
Read More1835-Samuel Miller.-In this section of his chapter on Presbyterian worship, from his book "Presbyterianism, the Truly Primitive and Apostolic Constitution of the Christian Church," Miller asserts and explains why Presbyterians do not celebrate holy-days such as Christmas or Easter.
Read More1838-Samuel Miller.-Written at the request of Mr. James Wharey, for his small history of the church, this brief appendix contains Miller's learned opinion that the Waldenses practiced infant baptism.
Read More1859-David Steele.-This is Steele’s review of the Reformed Presbyterian magazine’s notice of his short work entitled, “The Two Witnesses.” In it David Steele corrects and sets forth proper notions of what is meant by “historical testimony,” as well as clarifying points on terms of communion in the visible church.
Read More1838-James Renwick Willson.-This address by Willson contains a survey of a report by members of the Emancipation society. Willson, who was an ardent supporter of ending negro slavery, spends time vindicating people of African descent from many frivolous charges leveled to deny them freedom. This address is of interest both as a vigorous criticism of slavery while, at the same time, giving assurances that racial integration was not a recipe for miscegenation. Interestingly, Willson asserts that slavery was responsible for mulattoes, quadroons, etc. because it degraded the morals of slave owners.
Read More1838-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.
Read More1839-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.
Read More1847-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.
Read More1847-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.
Read More1847-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.
Read More1847-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.
Read More1848-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.
Read More1849-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.
Read More1849-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.
Read More1850-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.
Read More