1648-George Gillespie.-Two days before he died, Gillespie was concerned to leave a dying testimony against voluntary associations with malignants and other opposers of the covenanted Reformation.
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1708-John McMillan I.-A clear and earnest testimony by the Cameronian Apostle, John Macmillan, against the various defections amongst Presbyterians in Scotland together with his plain reasons for dissenting from the Revolution establishment of 1690. This contains the very valuable postscript, written by the United Societies concurring with MacMillan.
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1883-David Steele.-In these concluding remarks, Mr. Steele expresses no regrets for remaining steadfast in the old paths and he understands all of the persecuting of him to be the result of his faithful contendings, as it always has been with the people of God. Those departing always persecute those who stand fast.
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1648-Geoge Gillespie.-Gillespie’s dying testimony warning the Church of Scotland against compliance with and engagement to malignants and others hostile to the covenants. From his death bed, he warned about the very measures that would split the church into Protestors and Resolutioners. Gillespie was decidedly on the side of the Protestors.
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1883-David Steele.-In this Appendix, Mr. Steele defends his commitment to ministry and the support of the covenanted cause of Reformation even in the United States. He gives a sense of what it took to ride the circuit to scattered adherents in the 19th century Mid-west.
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1802-Alexander McLeod.-A sermon on the unlawfulness of holding men in perpetual slavery through man-stealing.
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1649-George Gillespie.-A volume which gathers many of Gillespie’s smaller works on various topics of church government, sacraments, confederacies and the nature and extent of the atonement.
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1781-John McMillan III.-This letter defends the Reformed Presbyterian position on civil magistracy in opposition to the various misunderstandings and misrepresentations of Seceders.
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1883-David Steele.-This Appendix addresses charges and concerns about his finances. He defends his own labor, austerity and frugality as means to advance the end of maintain a ministry to those of his charge. This he contrasts with the case of ministers with settled charges who play the ecclesiastical politics.
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1770-John Fairley.-This text is a theological defense of the Reformed Presbytery’s stance on the nature and origin of civil magistracy. Fairly writes to refute John Goodlet, a Seceder minister who argued that government is founded exclusively on the law of nature and human reason rather than divine revelation. The author contends that while reason acknowledges the necessity of order, the office of the magistrate is a divine institution explicitly established by God’s preceptive will in the Bible. Fairly rejects the idea that secular reason should be the supreme rule for society, asserting instead that the Holy Scriptures provide the only perfect standard for both religious and civil duties. He specifically identifies Genesis 9:6 as the biblical foundation for civil authority, proving that God, not human invention, authorized the power of the state. Ultimately, the work aims to vindicate reformation principles by maintaining that a lawful magistrate in a Christian land must be qualified according to scriptural requirements.
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1883-David Steele.-This Appendix addresses numerous charges leveled by his opponents in an exercise of self-defense together with a defense of undertaking self-defense against unjust charges. One of the most significant revelations he makes has to do with charges that he had personal animus toward James R. Willson.
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1883-David Steele.-This Appendix discusses the difference between testimony and law both as a necessary understanding for distinguishing the Gospel from the Law as well as providing insight into why we need historical testimony if we would maintain our ecclesiastical identity as Covenanters.
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1839-William Symington.-In this essay, Symington warns youth against the vanity of amusements. He singles out several, including theatre, fairs and games of chance. He admonishes Christians to consistency of behavior and circumspection in walk.
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1655-Samuel Rutherfurd.-This is the first volume written by Rutherfurd on the subject of Covenant Theology. In it, he masterfully develops the doctrine of both the Covenant of Works and the Covenant of Grace. In addition, he expounds upon the Covenant of Redemption from eternity between the Father and the Son. He also deals extensively with the concept of Federal holiness and its implications for infant baptism.
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1803-Alexander McLeod.-A discourse on the Mediatorial character of Christ and the importance of this doctrine with respect to the duty of nations favored with the light of the Gospel.
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1806-Alexander McLeod.-A discussion of church government in the form of a catechism by an early “American” Reformed Presbyterian father.
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1661-James Guthrie.-A sermon warning of the stormy trials that come upon the people of God and the reasons the Lord brings them together with instructions to avoid stumbling in them.
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1661-James Guthrie.-Two speeches given prior to his sentencing and execution for his faithfulness to the cause of the Covenanted Reformation. The first contains a reasoned and impassioned plea for his release. The second gives a short account of the principles upon which he suffered.
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Born near Lucesco, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, September 15, 1803. He received his early education in a private Academy, and graduated from the Western University of Pennsylvania in 1829. He studied theology...
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1690-James Guthrie.-Published posthumously, this gives an outline and exposition of the offices of ruling elder and deacon in accordance with Scripture and the usage of the Scottish church.
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