Jean-Baptiste Bullet (1699-1775). [Histoire de l'établissement du christianisme. English.] History of the Establishment of Christianity, Compiled from Jewish and Heathen Authors Only; exhibiting a substantial proof of the truth of this religion. Translated from the French of Professor Bullet, ... By William Salisbury, B.D. with notes by the translater, and some strictures on Mr. Gibbon's account of Christianity and its first teachers. London: printed for Charles Bathurst, 1776. xxxi,[1],323,[1] pp.
Prometheus Christianus, or, A Treatise shewing the folly and vanity of atheism and containing the solution of the main arguments of the Socinians, the Arrians, the deists, and other unitarians: whereunto is annex'd the refutation of some dogmatical points of a modern author relating to the trinity. London: Printed, and are to be Sold by Rich. Baldwin, 1695. 2nd edition. [6], 31 pp. Lambeth Palace Library (London, England).
Savonarola, Girolamo
(1452-1498)
Italian religious reformer. Read about Savonarola here.
The Great Evangelical Disaster. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1984.
"We as Bible-believing evangelical Christians are locked in a battle. This is not a friendly gentleman's discussion. It is a life and death conflict between the spiritual hosts of wickedness and those who claim the name of Christ. It is a conflict on the level of ideas between two fundamentally opposed views of truth and reality. It is a conflict on the level of actions between a complete moral perversion and chaos and God's absolutes. But do we really believe that we are in a life and death battle? Do we really believe that the part we play in the battle has consequences for whether or not men and women will spend eternity in hell? Or whether or not in this life people will live with meaning or meaninglessness? Or whether or not those who do live will live in a climate of moral perversion and degradation? Sadly, we must say that very few in the evangelical world have acted as if these things are true. Rather than trumpet our accomplishments and revel in our growing numbers, it would be closer to the truth to admit that our response has been a disaster."--pp. 31-32.
"Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong. Just as what we may call holiness without love is not God's kind of holiness, so also what we may call love without holiness, including when necessary confrontation, is not God's kind of love."--pp. 64-65.
Religious historian. Learn more about Schaff here and here
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Edward D. Yeomans, translator. History of the Apostolic Church; with a general introduction to church history, By Philip Schaff ... Tr. by Edward D. Yeomans. New York: C. Scribner, 1859. 684 pp.
Collection of Testimonies of Unbelievers. From Person of Christ. Click the "next" button on this and following pages to peruse the collection.
"We present here, by way of an Appendix to our argument for the Divinity of Christ, a collection of the more remarkable testimonies of unbelievers to the character of Christ, arranged in chronological order, and accompanied with explanatory notes.
"Dr. Nathaniel Lardner (born in 1684, died in 1768), although a Socinian, or Unitarian, in his views on Christ's person, did excellent service to the cause of revealed religion against the Deism of his day by his truly learned and valuable work on the "Credibility of the Gospel History" (in seventeen books, published from 1727 to 1757), in which he collected with untiring industry, and examined with critical judgment, the heathen, Jewish, and Christian testimonies of antiquity in favor of the historical truthfulness of the apostolic writings. A similar service might be done to the true doctrine of the person of Christ, by bringing together, in proper order, the testimonies to his Divinity, as embodied in the creeds, the worship, and the institutions of all ages and denominations of Christendom, and exhibited from day to day in the practical fruits of faith in Christ among all classes and conditions of men.
"Our present task is limited to the testimonies of opponents of the old faith of the Church in her divine-human Head and Saviour. The concession of an enemy sometimes carries more weight in an argument than the assertion of a friend. Honey may be extracted even from a dead lion. "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness" (Judges xiv. 14).
The testimonies we are going to produce are important and interesting in various ways. They prove, especially those of more recent times, that there is in the inmost heart of man an instinctive and growing reverence and admiration for the spotless purity and perfection of Christ as the holy of holies in the history of the race. Infidels may deny his miracles; but they cannot deny his power, or assail his character, without doing violence to the noblest feelings and aspirations of their own nature, and forfeiting all claim to the moral respect of their fellow-men. It seems to be felt more and more, that he is, without controversy, the very best being that ever walked on this earth, and that an attack on his character is an insult to the honor and dignity of humanity itself. And this feeling and conviction becomes
stronger and deeper as history advances. The impression of Christ upon the world, far from losing ground, is gaining new strength with every stage of civilization, and controls even the best thinking of his enemies.
"These testimonies; on the other hand, expose also the glaring inconsistency of unbelief, in admitting the absolute purity and truthfulness of Christ, and yet refusing his own testimony concerning himself; in praising his perfection as a man, and yet denying his Divinity on which it rests, and which alone Call satisfactorily explain it in a universally imperfect world."
Transcribed from the 1910 edition published by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York, pp. 251-253./ Vol. 5 pts. I-II, by David Schley Schaff./ Frontispiece in v. 2, 3, and 5: pt. II wanting./ Includes bibliographical references.
History of the Christian Church, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 1998, 1910. 7 v. in 8: ill., maps, ports., facsim.; 22 cm.
Volume I: Apostolic Christianity. A.D. 1-100.
Volume II: Ante-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 100-325.
Volume III: Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 311-600.
Under the Influence: How Christianity transformed civilization. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, 2001. 423 pp.: ill.; 24 cm. Buy this book here. People transformed by Jesus Christ -- The sanctification of human life -- Christianity elevates sexual morality -- Women receive freedom and dignity -- Charity and compassion: their Christian connection -- Hospitals and health care: their Christian roots -- Christianity's imprint on education -- Labor and economic freedom dignified -- Science: its Christian connections -- Liberty and justice for all -- Slavery abolished: a Christian achievement -- Christianity's stamp on art and architecture -- The sound of music: its Christian resonance -- Hallmarks of literature: their Christian imprint -- Additional influence: holidays, words, symbols, and expressions.
How Christianity changed the world: formerly titled Under the Influence. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan,
2004, 2001. 441 pp.: ill.; 23 cm. Buy this book here.
Table of contents here.
Western civilization is becoming increasingly pluralistic,
secularized, and biblically illiterate. Many people today have little sense of how their lives have benefited from Christianity's influence, often viewing the church with hostility or resentment. How Christianity Changed the World is a topically
arranged Christian history for Christians and non-Christians. Grounded in solid research and written in a popular style, this book is both a helpful apologetic tool in talking with unbelievers and a source of evidence for why Christianity deserves credit for many of the humane, social, scientific, and cultural advances in the Western world in the last two thousand years. Photographs, timelines, and charts enhance each
chapter.
Great Divide: The Failure of Islam and the Triumph of the West. Regina Orthodox Press, July 2004. 352 pp. Buy this book here.
The Menace of Multiculturalism: Trojan Horse in America. Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated, January 1997. 232 pp. Buy this book here. "In this broad and penetrating indictment of multiculturalism, the author strives to expose inconsistencies and duplicity in the arguments of diversity's proponents and to sound a warning against the dire consequences for American culture if the tenets of 'political correctness' are allowed to take root in our culture."
With Larry A. Nichols and George A. Mather. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Cults, Sects, and World Religions. Revised edition. Zondervan, August 2006. 560 pp. Buy this book here.
Schmucker, Samuel Simon
(1799-1873)
Lutheran pastor, theologian, educator and slavery abolitionist. Chief founder of Pennsylvania College, the forerunner of Gettysburg College. Learn more about Schmucker here and here.
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The Holy Sabbath. Sermon published in The Adams Sentinel, March 15, 1847. "In the fourth century, Constantine, the first christian Emperor, enacted civil laws, requiring abstinence from secular labor on the Lord's day, and from that time to the present, similar prohibitions are embodied in the code of every christian nation. Nor do these United States form an excption. It is true, our national constitution, haing provide that Congress shall not establish any religion, makes no recognition of the christian sabbath. Yet the same men who formed that instrument, virtually did so by decreeing that all the public offices of the Legislative, Judicial and Executive departments of government shall be closed on that day. In our own Commonwealth, the legal provision is supposed to be satisfactory, if faithfully executed. It is only the negative observation of the sabbath, abstinence from secular labor, that civil government has a right to enforce. Far be the day, when our rulers shall venture the dictation of any particular religious exercises; and should the attempt ever be made, we trust there will be patriotism enough in the land to defeat it."
Classicist. John C. Shaffer professor of Greek. He was a member of the American Philological Association (president, 1916) and of the Archaeological Institute of America.
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Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.); John C. Shaffer Foundation. We Would Know Jesus. New York, Cincinnati [etc.] The Abingdon Press. 1936. 176 pp. 20 cm. "Four lectures given on the John C. Shaffer foundation at Northwestern University for promotion of the appreciation of the life, character, teachings, and influence of Jesus." Contents: Our knowledge of Jesus from non-biblical sources -- Preservation of the Gospels -- Luke the Greek physician -- Socrates and Jesus. Buy this book here.
"Luke was not only a doctor, and an historian, but he was one of the world's greatest men of letters. He wrote the clearest and the best Greek written in that century ..."
Luke, Greek physician and historian. Evanston, Ill., Northwestern university, 1930. 45 pp., 1 leaf. 17 cm.
See The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible, edited by William Jenks, for additional commentary by Matthew Henry and Phillip Doddridge, plus Gill, Adam, Clarke, Patrick, Poole, Lowth, Burder, Harmer, Calmet, Stuart, Robinson, Bush, Rosenmueller, Bloomfield, and many other writers on the Scriptures.
A Vindication of the Divine Inspiration of the Scriptures, and of the doctrines contained in them
being an answer to the two parts of Mr. T. Paine's Age of reason.
[New York]: London, printed: New-York, re-printed by G. Forman, for C. Davis, Book-seller, no. 94, Water-Street., 1797. xii, [1], 14-202, [2] pp.; 16 cm. (12mo)
The Force of Truth: An authentic narrative. Edition: From the last London ed.New-York, Published by Williams and Whitting, J. Seymour, print., 1810. viii, [9]-165 p. 14 cm.
Part 1 and Part 2.
Theological Works:
published at different times, and now collected into volumes. 1st American edition. Philadelphia: Printed for W.W. Woodward, 1810. 5 vol.: port.; 23 cm. -- ZIP file; highlights: On Regeneration.
The Rights of God. London: printed by D. Jaques: and sold by J. S. Jordan; J. Mathews; T. Vernor; and [by the author] at no.2, Chapel-street, Upper Grosvenor-place, [1793]. 97 pp.
Scougal, Henry
(1650-1678)
Professor of divinity in the University of Aberdeen.
English civil servant. Private secretary to the British general William Howe.
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The Christian Remembrancer, or Short Reflections upon the faith, life, and conduct, of a real Christian. [One line from II Timothy]. Philadelphia: William Young, 1795 edition. "To the public."--pp. 279-282; includes a list of books recommended "both on patriotic and religious principles." Signed: John Ewing, D.D., [and four others].
An Argument in Defence of Christianity, taken from the concessions of the most ancient adversaries, Jews and pagans, philosophers and historians -- Part 1; Part 2. London : printed for John Millan, 1755. xv,[1],166,[2] pp.
Shaw, Duncan
(1727-1794)
Church of Scotland minister.
WORKS
A Comparative view of the several methods of promoting religious instruction, from the earliest down to the present time; from which the superior excellence of that recommended in the Christian institutes, is evinced and demonstrated. Volume 1. London, printed for Richardson and Urquhart, 1776. 273 pp. 2 vols.
A Comparative view of the several methods of promoting religious instruction, from the earliest down to the present time; from which the superior excellence of that recommended in the Christian institutes, is evinced and demonstrated. Volume 2. London, 1776. 325 pp.
The Clear sun-shine of the gospel breaking forth upon the Indians in New-England . Or, An historicall narration of Gods wonderfull workings upon sundry of the Indians, both chief governors and common-people, in bringing them to a willing and desired submission to the ordinances of the gospel; and framing their hearts to an earnest inquirie after the knowledge of God the Father, and of Jesus Christ the Saviour of the world. / By Mr. Thomas Shepard minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ at Cambridge in New-England., London: 1648.
Sherlock, Thomas
(1678-1761)
(TM): Thomas Sherlock was an Anglican Bishop whose apologetic writings, in the tradition of John Locke?s Reasonableness of Christianity, focus on the evidence for miracles and the use and intent of prophecy.
Learn more about Sherlock here and here.
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The Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus. Not only Mr. Woolston's objections in his sixth discourse on our Saviour?s miracles, but those also which he and others have published in other books, are here considered. First published about the year 1729. Edinburgh: printed by J. Robertson. For W. Gray, 1769. 116 pp. 1800 edition. A new edition, published by desire of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. London: For F. and C. Rivington. 143 pp.
1729 edition available here. HTML version available here.
(TM): The Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection is a charming response to the deist Thomas Woolston, who had attacked the Christian miracles in six pamphlets published in 1727-8. The question at issue is whether the original witnesses of the resurrection were deceivers, and Sherlock frames work as a discussion among some lawyers who find themselves on opposite sides of the question. They decide to have it determined by a mock trial complete with a jury in which the skeptical arguments of Woolston, Anthony Collins, and Matthew Tindal are vigorously advanced by the counsel for the prosecution and rebutted by the counsel for the defense.
The Trial was wildly popular and went through nearly a dozen printings in its first year. The edition linked here also contains Sherlock?s Sequel to the Trial of the Witnesses, a valuable work in its own right, written in response to an attack on the Trial by Peter Annet. The mode of argument adopted in the Trial has been an influence on many subsequent apologetic writers, and it has been conjectured that Hume had the Trial in view when he published his famous attack on the rationality of belief in miracles in 1748.
Charles Moss. The Sequel to The Tryal of the witnesses: wherein the evidence of the resurrection is cleared. In answer to a pamphlet, intitled, The Resurrection of Jesus considered by a moral philosopher. The third edition. London, Printed for J. Whiston and B. White, in Fleet-Street, 1757. 167 pp. Note(s): First published in 1744 under title: The evidence of the resurrection cleared from the exceptions of a late pamphlet, entitled, The resurrection of Jesus considered by a Moral philosopher, in answer to The tryal of witnesses.
The Use and Intent of Prophecy, in the several ages of the world. In six discourses, delivered at the Temple-Church, in April and May, 1724. To which are added, four dissertations. The third edition, corrected and enlarged. By Tho. Sherlock, London, 1732. 337 pp.
George Morgan. The True Patrick Henry: With Twenty-four Illustrations. Lippincott, 1907. 492 pages. Original from the New York Public Library.
"Judge Winston tells us that Henry travelled about "on a circuit (Nelson and White, Judges) carrying Soame Jenyns, of which he gave the Judges a copy, desiring them at the same time not to take him for a travelling monk." This book, which bears the title, "Internal Evidences of Christianity," was printed and given free circulation in Virginia at Henry's own expense. Howe says that Henry did the same with Butler's "Analogy," adding: "Sherlock's Sermons, he affirmed, was the work which removed all his doubts of the truth of Christianity; a copy of which, until a short time since, was filled with marginal notes. He read it every Sunday evening to his family, after which they all joined in sacred music, while he accompanied them on the violin. He never quoted poetry. His quotations were from the Bible, and his illustrations from the Bible and ancient and modern history."
The Sacred and prophane history of the world connected, from the creation of the world to the dissolution of the Assyrian empire. The second edition. London, printed for R. Knaplock, and J. Tonson, 1731. Volume 1 of 2, Volume 2 of 2
The Creation and Fall of Man, A supplemental discourse to the preface of the first volume of The sacred and prophane history of the world connected. By Samuel Shuckford. London: printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753. cxxxii,295,[17] pp., plate: map.
Outline of the course of geological lectures given in Yale College. New Haven, 1829. 127 pp.
"Respecting the Deluge, there can be but one opinion:
geology fully confirms the Scriptural history of the
event . . . Whales, sharks, and other fishes,
crocodiles and amphibians, the mammoth and the extinct
elephant, the rhinoceros, the hippopotamus, hyenas,
tigers, deer, horses, the various species of the bovine
family and a multitude more, are found buried in
diluvium at a greater or less depth; and in most
instances under circumstances indicating that they were
buried by the same catastrophe which destroyed them:
namely a sudden and violent deluge . . . a skeleton of
a whale lay on top of the mountain Sanhorn on the coast
of the northern sea. . . . [The mountain] is three
thousand feet high and there is no cause that could
have conveyed the whale to that elevation except a
deluge rising to that height."
Dear Sir:--In compliance with your request, I am ready to give my opinion as to the "influence of the Bible on civil and social life, and as to its harmony with geology."
It is the grand charter of man's political and civil equality, liberty, and order. It is the guardian and the only adequate protector of his social happiness.
Should the human race ever come fully under its influence, both national wars and personal dissensions would cease, and this world would become a terrestrial paradise.
The relation of geology as well as astronomy to the Bible, when both are well understood, is that of perfect harmony. The Bible no where limits the age of our globe, while its chronology assigns a recent origin to the human race; and geology not only confirms the truth of the history of man, but it affords decisive evidence that the Genesis presents a true statement of the progress of the terrestrial arrangements, and of the introduction of living beings in the order in which their fossil remains are found entombed in the strata. The Word and the works of God cannot be in conflict, and the more they are studied, the more perfect will their harmony appear. I remain, dear sir,
Very respectfully and truly yours,
B. Silliman, Senior.
George Park Fisher. Life of Benjamin Silliman, M.D., LL.D.: late professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology in Yale college: chiefly from his manuscript. Volume 1. New York, 1866. 426 pp. 2 vols.
George Park Fisher. Life of Benjamin Silliman, M.D., LL.D.: late professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology in Yale college: chiefly from his manuscript. Volume 2. New York, 1866. 420 pp. 2 vols.
Evidences for the Truth of Christianity: Deduced from comparing numerous prophecies in the Old Testament with parallel passages in the New, proving that Jesus is the Christ. Boston: Cummings and Hilliard; Cambridge [Mass.]: Hilliard & Metcalf, 1813. 27 pp.
Sacred literature: shewing the holy scriptures to be superior to the most celebrated writings of antiquity, by the testimony of above five hundred witnesses. Birmingham, printed and sold by M. Swinney. Sold also by Dilly, Buckland, Matthews, Scollick, Trapp, London; Spence, York, Bulgin, Bristol; Clarke, Manchester; Bayley, Macclesfield; and all other booksellers in town and country, 1788. Volume 1 of 4. 581 pp.
Sacred literature: shewing the holy scriptures to be superior to the most celebrated writings of antiquity, by the testimony of above five hundred witnesses. Birmingham, 1788. Volume 2 of 4. 528 pp.
Sacred literature: shewing the holy scriptures to be superior to the most celebrated writings of antiquity, by the testimony of above five hundred witnesses. Birmingham, 1788. Volume 3 of 4. 601 pp.
Sacred literature: shewing the holy scriptures to be superior to the most celebrated writings of antiquity, by the testimony of above five hundred witnesses. Birmingham, 1788. Volume 4 of 4. 680 pp.
The Sceptic's manual, or, Christianity verified: being a new method of appeal to the understandings and consciences of Deists, Jews, sceptics, and formal professors, for the truth, power, and efficacy of the Christian religion, demonstrated in three parts. Philadelphia: J.F. Watson, 1811. 282 pp. Contents: The truth of the Holy Scriptures / by Charles Leslie (1650-1722), demonstrated in his Short and easy method with the Deists, in a letter to a friend -- Six letters on the spiritual manifestation of the Son of God / John Fletcher (1729-1785) -- Exemplification of the influence and power of religion in the contrasted lives and deaths of saints and sinners.
A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings, addressed to the disciples of Thomas Paine and to wavering Christians of every denomination. Philadelphia: Solomon Wieatt, 1809 ([Philadelphia]: Joseph Rakestraw). 406 pp. "There are four grand arguments for the truth of the Bible, the first is the miracles which it records. 2. The prophecies. 3. The goodness of the doctrines. 4. The moral character of the penmen. -- The miracles flow from Divine power; the prophecies from Divine understanding; the excellence of the doctrine from Divine goodness; and the moral character of the penmen from Divine purity. -- Thus, christianity is built upon these four immoveable pillars, the power, the understanding, the goodness, and the purity of God. -- I add further: -- The Bible must be the invention either of good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. -- It could not be the invention of good men or angels, for they neither would nor could make a book, and tell lies all the time they were writing it, saying, Thus saith the Lord, when it was their own invention. -- It could not be the invention of bad men or devils, for they would not make a book, which commands all duty, forbids all sin, and condemns their souls to hell to all eternity. -- I therefore draw this conclusion -- The Bible must be given by Divine inspiration."
Examples of Dying Christians Who Had Lived in the Spirit of the World; Dying Infidels; Persons Recovered from Infidelity; Living and Dying in Full Assurance.
Simpson, Patrick Carnegie
(1865-1947)
Minister of Renfield Church, Glasgow.
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The Fact of Christ: A Series of lectures. Popular edition. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906. viii, 188 pp.; 19 cm. "These lectures were given in Renfield Church during last winter to a public class which met on Sunday evenings after service; they are now published without further elaboration either of matter or style." Endorsed by William Jennings Bryan.
The Facts of Life in Relation to Faith. New York: Hodder & Stoughton, George H. Doran Company, 1913. x, 294 p. 19.5 cm. Contents: Creed of experience -- The indifferent world -- The problem of pain -- The atheistic fact -- The reality of Christ -- The claim of humanism -- The veto of death -- The comment of to-day. Note: "This book is practically a sequel to The fact of Christ (published in 1900)."
Skelton, Philip
(1707-1787)
Church of Ireland clergyman.
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Deism revealed; Or, the attack on Christianity candidly reviewed in its real merits, as they stand in the celebrated writings of Lord Herbert. London, 1751. Volume 1 of 2. 321 pp. Volume 2 of 2. 322 pp.
Diligence in the work of God, and, activity during life: A Sermon, occasioned by the much-lamented death of the Reverend Mr. Aaron Burr, A.M. president of the College of New-Jersey. Who died September 24, M,DCC,LVII. In the forty-third year of his age.
The Cure of deism: or, the mediatorial scheme by Jesus Christ the only true religion. In answer to the objections started, and to the very imperfect account of the religion of nature, and of Christianity, given by the two oracles of deism, the author of Christianity as old as the creation, and the author of the Characteristicks. ... In two volumes. The third edition. To which is added, I. An objection to the mediatorial scheme, ... II. Some sublime sentiments of the great Lord Bacon. Vol. 1 of 2 London, printed for James Hodges; and Charles Corbett, 1740. 481 pp. Vol. 2 of 2. London, 1740. 487 pp.
Gods Arrow againste atheists by Henrie Smith. At London: Imprinted by R.B. for Thomas Pauier and are to bee [sic] sold at his shop entring into the Exchange, 1607. [4], 100 pp. Union Theological Seminary (New York, N. Y.) Library. London: Printed for Obadiah Blagrave ..., 1676. [16], 631, 176 pp.
The Sermons of Mr. Henry Smith, Sometimes Minister of S. Clement Danes, London. Together with other Learned Treatises. All Now Gathered into one Volume. Notes: The following parts each have special t.p.: The examination of usury ... / by Henry Smith. London: Printed by A. Maxwell for Edward Brewster ... and John Wright ..., 1673 -- Eight sermons preached by Mr. Henry Smith ... London: [s.n.], Printed in the year 1674 -- Three sermons made by Mr. Henry Smith ... London: Printed by A. Maxwell, for Edward Brewster ... and John Wright ..., 1673 -- God's arrow against atheists / by Henry Smith. London: Printed by A.M. for Edward Brewster ... and John Wright ..., 1673 -- Four sermons preached by Mr. Henry Smith ... London: Printed by A.M. for Edward Brewster ... and John Wright ..., 1674./ Reproduction of original in: Christ Church (University of Oxford). Library.
The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul: with dissertations on the life and writings of St. Luke, and the ships and navigation of the ancients, 4th edition, rev. and corrected. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1880. xlviii, 293 pp. port., ill., maps; 20 cm. Introduction by Dr. Tim McGrew here.
Smith, John Pye
(1774-1851)
Congregational theologian and Theological Tutor at Homerton College near Hackney, London. Read about Smith here.
The Relation between the Holy Scriptures and some parts of geological scienc. 5th edition. London: Jackson and Walford, 1855. xii, 468 pp.; 19 cm. On half-title page: New and uniform edition./ Includes bibliographical references and index. Referenced by Thomas Hartwell Horne in An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, 14th edition, 1877.
The Character, preaching, &c. of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield, impartially represented and supported: In a Sermon, preach'd in Charlestown, South-Carolina, March 26th Anno Domini. 1740. / By Josiah Smith, V.D.M.; With a preface by the Reverend Dr. Colman and Mr. Cooper of Boston, New-England; [Nine lines from II Corinthians] Boston: Printed by G. Rogers, for J. Edwards and H. Foster in Cornhill, 1740. [4], vi, 20, [2] pp.; 17 cm. (8vo)
With Nelson Winch Green. Mormonism: Its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition, embracing the narrative of Mrs. Mary Ettie V. Smith, of her residence and experience of fifteen years with the Mormons ... with other startling facts and statements, being a full disclosure of the rites, ceremonies, and mysteries of polygamy. Hartford: Belknap & Bliss, 1870. 472 pp.: ports.; 20 cm.
The Lectures corrected and improved, which have been delivered for a series of years in the College of New Jersey on the subjects of moral and political philosophy. 2 vol. 1812. 22 cm. Volume 1 of 2. Volume 2 of 2.
Annals of the American pulpit, or, Commemorative notices of distinguished American clergymen of various denominations: from the early settlement. Volume 1. Trinitarian Congregational. 1857. New York, 1859-69. 749 pp. 9 vols.
Annals of the American pulpit, or, Commemorative notices of distinguished American clergymen of various denominations: from the early settlement. Volume 2. Trinitarian Congregational. 1857. New York, 1859-69. 784 pp. 9 vols.
Annals of the American pulpit, or, Commemorative notices of distinguished American clergymen of various denominations: from the early settlement. Volume 3. Presbyterian. 1859. New York, 1859-69. 652 pp. 9 vols.
Annals of the American pulpit, or, Commemorative notices of distinguished American clergymen of various denominations: from the early settlement. Volume 4. Presbyterian. 1859. New York, 1859-69. 840 pp. 9 vols.
Annals of the American pulpit, or, Commemorative notices of distinguished American clergymen of various denominations: from the early settlement. Volume 5. Episcopalian. 1859. New York, 1859-69. 842 pp. 9 vols.
Annals of the American pulpit, or, Commemorative notices of distinguished American clergymen of various denominations: from the early settlement. Volume 6. Baptist. 1860. New York, 1859-69. 884 pp. 9 vols.
Annals of the American pulpit, or, Commemorative notices of distinguished American clergymen of various denominations: from the early settlement. Volume 7. Methodist. 1860. New York, 1859-69. 873 pp. 9 vols.
Annals of the American pulpit, or, Commemorative notices of distinguished American clergymen of various denominations: from the early settlement. Volume 8. Unitarian Congregational. 1865. New York, 1859-69. 598 pp. 9 vols.
Sermon on Dueling. Introduction by David Barton: "New York pastor William Sprague takes a strong stand against the practice of dueling and exhorts his congregation on the vital importance of praying for government officials in this sermon."
Sproul, R. C.
(1939- )
Modern apologist.
WORKS
James Montgomery Boice, ed.Sola Scriptura: Crucial To Evangelicalism. The Foundation of Biblical Authority. London & Glasgow: Pickering & Inglis, 1979. Pbk. ISBN: 072080437X. pp.103-119.
Essential Truths of the Christian Faith. Tyndale House Publishers, February 1, 1998. 336 pages. Buy this book here. "With the layperson in mind, Dr. Sproul offers a basic understanding of the Christian faith that is interesting, informative, and easy to read. Here are brief explanations of biblical concepts every Christian should know in language everyone can understand. Highlighted with homespun analogies, more than 100 doctrines are categorized under major headings for easy reference. Contains chapter summaries, reading suggestions, diagrams, and more."
C. Michael Patton. R.C. Sproul Turns: He is Now a Six-Day Creationist. Introduction by Patton, plus extract from R.C. Sproul, Truths We Confess: A Layman's guide to the Westminster Confession of Faith, Volume I: The Triune God (Chapters 1?8 of the Confession), P&R Publishing, Phillipsburg, NJ, 2006. "For most of my teaching career, I considered the framework hypothesis to be a possibility. But I have now changed my mind. I now hold to a literal six-day creation, the fourth alternative and the traditional one. Genesis says that God created the universe and everything in it in six twenty-four-hour periods. According to the Reformation hermeneutic, the first option is to follow the plain sense of the text. One must do a great deal of hermeneutical gymnastics to escape the plain meaning of Gen 1-2. The confession makes it a point of faith that God created the world in the space of six days. [emphasis in original, indicating these words are part of the Confession] (pp. 127-128)."
Spurgeon, C. H. (Charles Haddon)
(1834-1892)
Preacher and expositor. Read more about Spurgeon here.
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The Resurrection: A Symposium. Revell, 1896. "Death and Resurrection" and "The Resurrection Credible." Also, related essays by Alexander MacLaren, D. L. Moody, T. DeWitt Talmage and Canon Liddon.
"Paul -- His Cloak and His Books".
Paul had a few books which were left, perhaps wrapped up in the cloak, and Timothy was to be careful to bring them. Even an apostle must read. Some of our very ultra Calvinistic brethren think that a minister who reads books and studies his sermon must be a very deplorable specimen of a preacher. A man who comes up into the pulpit, professes to take his text on the spot, and talks any quantity of nonsense, is the idol of many. If he will speak without premeditation, or pretend to do so, and never produce what they call a dish of dead men's brains?oh! that is the preacher. How rebuked are they by the apostle! He is inspired, and yet he wants books! He has been preaching at least for thirty years, and yet he wants books! He had seen the Lord, and yet he wants books! He had had a wider experience than most men, and yet he wants books! He had been caught up into the third heaven, and had heard things which it was unlawful for a men to utter, yet he wants books! He had written the major part of the New Testament, and yet he wants books! The apostle says to Timothy and so he says to every preacher, "Give thyself unto reading." The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. Brethren, what is true of ministers is true of all our people. You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible. We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master's service. Paul cries, "Bring the books"?join in the cry.
Our second remark is, that the apostle is not ashamed to confess that he does read. He is writing to his young son Timothy. Now, some old preachers never like to say a thing which will let the young ones into their secrets. They suppose they must put on a very dignified air, and make a mystery of their sermonizing; but all this is alien from the spirit of truthfulness. Paul wants books, and is not ashamed to tell Timothy that he does; and Timothy may go and tell Tychicus and Titus if he likes?Paul does not care.
Indifference for Religion Inexcusable or, a serious, impartial and practical review of the certainty, importance, and harmony of religion both natural and revealed. ... The third edition. By Samuel Squire. London: printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763. [24],186,[6] pp.
A Defence of the Christian Religion from the several objections of modern antiscripturists. ... In which is included the whole state of the controversy between Mr. Woolston and his adversaries. By the Reverend Mr. Thomas Stackhouse. The second edition corrected. London: printed for Edward Symon, 1733. [34],509,[3] pp.
A New History of the Holy Bible: from the beginning of the world, to the establishment of Christianity: with answers to most of the controverted questions, disertations upon the most remarkable passages, and a connection of profane history all along: to which are added, notes, explaining dificult texts, rectifying mis-translations, and reconciling seeming contradictions. London: Printed for John Hinton, 1752-1755. 2 volumes: ill.; 38 cm.
Volume 1 of 2; Volume 2.
George Gleig. "Miracles". From Volume Three, beginning on page 240. 1817 edition, corrected and improved by George Gleig. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817. 3 volumes: port ; 29 cm.
Staughton, William
(1770-1829)
Baptist clergyman, Chaplain for the U.S. Senate, and the first president of Columbian College which is the original name and oldest division (1821) of The George Washington University. Read about Staughton here.
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The Baptist Mission in India: containing a narrative of its rise, progress, and present condition, a statement of the physical and moral character of the Hindoos, their cruelties, tortures and burnings,with a very interesting description of Bengal, intended to animate to missionary co-operation. Philadelphia: Stiles for Hillings & Aitken, 1811. 312 pp. Preface by the compiler signed: W. Staughton./ "The following pages have been selected for the most part from the writings of the missionary brethren at Serampore, and those of their friends ... The Essays are formed chiefly from a series of interesting dialogues composed by Dr. Marshman. The other Articles are selected from 'the Periodical accounts' of the Society, excepting the article 'Bengal' which is a production of Mr. Ward ... " -- p. iii-iv./ Includes (p. [306]-312): Poetry. Contents: The formation of the Society, and the sending out of its two first Missionaries -- The arrival of the Missionaries in India, and their settlement in the neighbourhood of Malda -- Progress of the Mission, from 1795 to 1799 -- Four other missionaries set out, and the seat of the Mission removed to Serampore -- Progress of the Mission at Serampore, from 1800 to 1807, containing the principal events under each year successively -- Progress of the Mission continued to the end of 1808, including a list of the persons baptised from the commencement, &c.; List of persons baptised by the Missionaries in Bengal; List of the Missionaries; The translation about which the Missionaries at Serampore are engaged, are twelve in number -- Religious and moral essays: The sentiments of the Hindoos relative to the creation; the casts and shastras of the Hindoos, including their ideas of a future state -- Natural history: Animals; Plants -- Hindoos: The moral character of the Hindoos; Tortures, Cruelties, &c.; Burning of women; Character of the Bramins; Physical character of the Hindoos: their origin, dress, marriage, implements of husbandry, &c., &c. -- Bengal: History of -- Death of several of the Missionaries: Account of the death of Mr. Grant; Account of the death of Mr. Fountain; Brief account of Mr. Fountain's christian experience; Memoir of Mr. John Thomas; Account of the affliction and death of Mr. Brunsdon; Memoirs of Mr. John Biss, late one of the Missionaries of Searmpore, who died on his way from India to America; Account of Mrs. Chamberlain's death -- Poetry: An Evangelical hymn; Mr. Thomas to a relation; The affectionate advice; Prayers for Missionaries, on the sea, by Mr. Ward; The Indian renouncing heathenism, and embracing Christianity, by Mr. Carey; On the first Hindoo losing all for Christ's sake, by Mr. Marshman; On finishing the translation of the New Testament in Bengal, by Mr. Marshman.
Stearns, Charles
(1753-1825)
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Principles of Religion and Morality
In three parts. I. Of the evidences of religion. II. Principles of religion. III. Principles of morality; with four lessons on the cardinal virtues: The whole in short lessons, in the form of dialogues; adapted to schools, and private instruction in families. 2nd edition. Amherst, Newhampshire: Printed by Samuel Preston--for the author, 1799. 72 pp.; 18 cm. (12mo)
Christianity Justified Upon the Scripture Foundation. Being a summary view of the controversy between Christians and deists. In Two Parts. In which the Subject Matter of the Gospel Revelation in vindicated against Objections ; and the Evidence for the Truth of the Christian Religion briefly stated. Preached in several sermons (but now digested into one continued discourse) for the lecture founded by the Hon. Robert Boyle, Esq. in the Parish Church of St. Mary le Bow, in the Years 1747, 1748, 1749. By Henry Stebbing, D.D. Chancellor of the Diocese of Sarum, and Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty. London : Printed for C. Davis, over-against Grays-Inn-Gate, Holborn, 1750. xii, [2],504 pp. Also here and here.
Steiner, Bernard Christian
(1867-1926)
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One Hundred and Ten Years of Bible Society work in Maryland, 1810-1920. [Baltimore?]: Maryland Bible Society, 1921. 40 pp.: ill.; 23 cm.
"The triumphs of the 19th Century were many, and, among the greatest of them, was the wide distribution of the Holy Scriptures. Had not Christians been inspired with a missionary zeal that led them to carry the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the uttermost parts of the earth, in a manner never before attempted, it may well be doubted whether there would have been enough idealism and faith in the cause of righteousness to secure the overthrow of German arrogance, duplicity, and, militarism in the second decade of the 20th Century. "'The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal,' and the ffort to bring about the success of the unseen things which must be spiritually discerned, was necessary to counterbalance the scientific progress of the Century. Even Bismarck, man of blood and iron as he ws, perceived the immense value of the 'imponderable' things, and Villari, whose historical works showed a clear vision of truth, well said that 'in life there is nothing more real than the ideal.'"
Lecture on Home Education, Delivered at Caulfield on the 14th February, 1872. Prahran: Osment & Son, Printers, Chapel Street, 1872. 24 pp. PDF file. Lecture on the necessity of Christian instruction in the home to offset any bad habits and examples young men and women encounter on leaving home.
Stevens, Thaddeus
(1792-1868)
American political leader. Slavery abolitionist. Read more about Stevens here and
here.
President of Yale. Read more about Stiles here and
here.
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Ezra Stiles, The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor (1783). Stiles discusses deism, a.ka. religious secularism near the end of his discourse. Sermon, plus biographical sketch and editor's notes by John Wingate Thornton (1860), from: The Pulpit of the American Revolution: Or, the Political Sermons of the Period of 1776. With a Historical Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations, edited by John Wingate Thornton (Boston: Gould and Lincoln/New York: Sheldon and Company/Cincinnati: George S. Blanchard, 1860), pp. 397-506 (some author's and editor's footnotes omitted, and text is slightly abridged).
The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor. A Sermon, preached before His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esq. L.L.D. governour and commander in chief, and the Honourable the General Assembly, of the state of Connecticut, convened at Hartford, at the anniversary election. May 8th, 1783. / By Ezra Stiles, D.D. L.L.D. president of Yale College; [Six lines from Jeremiah] Second edition, corrected. Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts, by Isaiah Thomas, and sold at his book-store, 1785. 172, [8] pp.
"The cultivation of literature will greatly promote the public welfare. In every community, while provision is made that all should be taught to read the Scriptures, and the very useful parts of common education, a good proportion should be carried through the higher branches of literature. Effectual measures should be taken for preserving and diffusing knowledge among a people."
... "Whenever religion is erected on the ruins of civil government, and when civil government is built on the ruins of religion, both are so far essentially wrong. The church has never been of any political detriment here, for it never has been vested with any civil or secular power in New England, although it is certain that civil dominion was but the second motive, religion the primary one, with our ancestors in coming hither and settling this land. It was not so much their design to establish religion for the benefit of the state, as civil government for the benefit of religion, and as subservient and even necessary towards the peaceable enjoyment and unmolested exercise of religion--of that religion for which they fled to these ends of the earth. An institution is not made for the laws, but the laws for the institution. I am narrating a historical fact, not giving a position or principle which by shrewd politicians may be abused to justify spiritual tyranny, and to support the claims of the pontificate over all the civil states, kingdoms, and empires in Christendom."
..."It is greatly to be wished that these principles of our common Christianity might be found in general reception among all the churches of these states:
The Trinity in unity, in the one undivided essence of the Great Jehovah.
The sacred Scriptures are of divine inspiration.
In the immense universe, two little systems of intelligences, or orders of being, have lapsed, and that unhappily we have the dishonor of being one of them.
The second person of the coeternal Trinity, having assumed human nature, made a real atonement for sin, and by His vicarious obedience and sufferings exhibited that righteousness and vicarious merit by which alone we are forgiven and justified.
The Holy Ghost [Holy Spirit] is equally a divine person with the Father and the Son, sharing with them divine, supreme, equal, and undivided honors.
True virtue consists of a conformity of heart and life to the divine law, which is as obligatory upon Christians as if eternal life was suspended on perfect obedience.
The eternal principle of holiness essentially consists in divine love, a disinterested affection for moral excellence, a delight in the beauty and glory of the divine character, that is, the supreme love of God. And connected with and issuing from this is a joyful acquiescence in His will, a rejoicing in His sovereignty and universal dominion.
While salvation and pardon are of free grace, the retributions of eternity will be according to our works.
Whenever I find these principles, with others connected with them, and the real belief of them evinced by an amiable life, there I judge the essentials of Christianity to be found, and thither my charity and benevolence extend with equal ardor and sincerity, be the religious denomination as it may. Of these, the doctrines of the divinity of the Lord Jesus, and His real vicarious atonement, are the most important--the Jachin and Boaz, the pillar-truths of the Gospel, the articuli stantis et cadentis ecclesiae,
This was the system of theology brought over from the other side of the flood by our pious forefathers, now with God. The more this is realized in a state, the more will its felicity be advanced; for, certainly, the morals of Christianity are excellent. It enjoins obedience to magistracy, justice, harmony, and benevolence among fellow-citizens; and, what is more, it points out immortality to man."
English divine. Read more about Stillingfleet here
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Origines Sacre: or a rational account of the grounds of natural and revealed religion To which is added part of another book upon the same subject, left unfinished by the author. Together with A letter to a deist. In two volumes. A new edition. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1797. 2 vol.;
Part 1; Part 2.
"A Letter of Resolution, to a Person Unsatisfied about the Truth and Authority of the Scriptures." Origines Sacre. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1817, Volume 2, pp. 381-382
How easily things do appear to be contradictions to weak, or unstudied, or prejudiced minds, which after due consideration appear to be no such things. A deep prejudice finds a contradiction in every thing; whereas in truth nothing but ill-will, and impatience of considering, made any thing, it may be, which they quarrel at, appear to be so. If I had been of such a quarrelsome humour, I would have undertaken to have found out more contradictions in your papers than you imagine, and yet you might have been confident you had been guilty of none at all. When I consider the great pains, and learning, and judgment, which hath been shewn by the Christian writers in the explication of the Scriptures; and the raw, indigested objections which some love to make against them; if I were to judge of things barely by the fitness of persons to judge of them, the disproportion between these would appear out of all comparison.
Samuel Stillman, The Duty of Magistrates (1779) . Sermon, together with a biographical sketch (slightly abridged, with incorporation of footnotes into the text) is from: Frank Moore, editor, The Patriot Preachers of the American Revolution, with Biographical Sketches, 1766-1783 (n.p.) (1860), pp. 258-288.
The Duty of Magistrates: A Sermon preached before the Honorable Council, and the Honorable House of Representatives of the State of Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, at Boston, May 26, 1779. Being the anniversary for the election of the Honorable Council. Boston, New-England: Printed by T. and J. Fleet, in Cornhill, and J. Gill, in Court-Street, 1779. 38, [2] pp.; 19 cm. (8vo)
"It may be said, that religion is of importance to the good of civil society; therefore the magistrate ought to encourage it under this idea.
"It is readily acknowledged that the intrinsic excellence and beneficial effects of true religion are such that every man who is favored with the Christian revelation ought to befriend it. It has the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. And there are many ways in which the civil magistrate may encourage religion, in a perfect agreement with the nature of the kingdom of Christ, and the rights of conscience.
"As a man, he is personally interested in it. His everlasting salvation is at stake. Therefore he should search the Scriptures for himself, and follow them wherever they lead him. This right he hath in common with every other citizen.
"As the head of a family, he should act as a priest in his own house, by endeavoring to bring up his children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
"As a magistrate, he should be as a nursing father to the church of Christ, by protecting all the peaceable members of it from injury on account of religion; and by securing to them the uninterrupted enjoyment of equal religious liberty. The authority by which he acts he derives alike from all the people; consequently he should exercise that authority equally for the benefit of all, without any respect to their different religious principles. They have an undoubted right to demand it.
"Union in the state is of absolute necessity to its happiness. This the magistrate will study to promote. And this he may reasonably expect upon the plan proposed, of a just and equal treatment of all the citizens.
"For though Christians may contend amongst themselves about their religious differences, they will all unite to promote the good of the community, because it is their interest, so long as they enjoy the blessings of a free and equal administration of government."
A Sermon, occasioned by the death of George Washington: late commander in chief of the armies of the United States of America, who died December 14, 1799, aged 68. / By Samuel Stillman, D.D. Minister of the First Baptist Church in Boston
An Oration, delivered July 4th, 1789: at the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, in celebration of the anniversary of American independence. / By Samuel Stillman, D.D. Boston: Printed by B. Edes & Son, no. 7. State-Street, 1789. 29 pp. Also here.
By members of the Faculty of Westminster Theological Seminary. The Infallible Word. Foreward by Martyn Lloyd-Jones. P & R Publishing; 2nd edition, June 2003. 308 pages. Buy this book here.
Story, Joseph
(1779-1845)
Supreme Court justice. Read more about Story here and here.
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Justice Joseph Story on Church and State and the Federal Bill of Rights (1833). Excerpted from: Joseph Story, LL. D., Dane Professor of Law in Harvard University, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States; with a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, before the Adoption of the Constitution. Abridged by the Author, for the Use of Colleges and High Schools (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company/Cambridge: Brown, Shattuck, and Co., 1833), pp. iii-viii, 693-703.
Justice Joseph Story on Common Law Origins of the United States Constitution (1833). Excerpted from: Joseph Story, LL. D., Dane Professor of Law in Harvard University, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States; with a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, before the Adoption of the Constitution. Abridged by the Author, for the Use of Colleges and High Schools (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company/Cambridge: Brown, Shattuck, and Co., 1833), pp. iii-viii, 62-75, 105-109, 581, 606, 608.
Justice Joseph Story on the Rules of Constitutional Interpretation (1833) . Joseph Story, LL.D., Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States [...] Abridged by the Author, for the Use of Colleges and High Schools (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company/Cambridge: Brown, Shattuck, and Co., 1833), Chapter 5: Rules of Interpretation, pp. 134-148, 154-162.
§ 988. Probably at the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration, the general, if not the universal, sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the state, so far as it is not incompatible with the private rights of conscience, and the freedom of religious worship. An attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created universal disapprobation, if not universal indignation.
§ 989. It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether say free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and the support of religion, constitute no part of the policy or duty of the state in any assignable shape. The future experience of Christendom, and chiefly of the American states, must settle this problem, as yet new in the history of the world, abundant, as it has been, in experiments in the theory of government.
§ 990. But the duty of supporting religion, and especially the Christian religion, is very different from the right to force the consciences of other men, or to punish them for worshipping God in the manner, which, they believe, their accountability to him requires. It has been truly said, that "religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be dictated only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence." Mr. Locke himself, who did not doubt the right of government to interfere in matters of religion, and especially to encourage Christianity, has at the same time expressed his opinion of the right of private judgment, and liberty of conscience, in a manner becoming his character, as a sincere friend of civil and religious liberty. "No man, or society of men," says he, "have any authority to impose their opinions or interpretations on any other, the meanest Christian; since, in matters of religion, every man must know, and believe, and give an account for himself." The rights of conscience are, indeed, beyond the just reach of any human power. They are given by God, and cannot be encroached upon by human authority, without a criminal disobedience of the precepts of natural, as well as of revealed religion.
§ 991. The real object of the amendment was, not to countenance, much less to advance Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment, which should give to an hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government. It thus sought to cut off the means of religious persecution, (the vice and pest of former ages,) and the power of subverting the rights of conscience in matters of religion, which had been trampled upon almost from the days of the Apostles to the present age. The history of the parent country had afforded the most solemn warnings and melancholy instructions on this head; and even New-England, the land of the persecuted puritans, as well as other colonies, where the Church of England had maintained its superiority, had furnished a chapter, as full of dark bigotry and intolerance, as any, which could be found to disgrace the pages of foreign annals. Apostacy, heresy, and nonconformity have been standard crimes for public appeals, to kindle the flames of persecution, and apologize for the most atrocious triumphs over innocence and virtue.
Story's Commentaries--Vol. 1. Review of Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, with a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States before the adoption of the constitution of the United States. By Joseph Story, L.L. D. Dane Professor of Law in Harvard University. From The American Jurist and Law Magazine April 1833, Volume 9, pp. 241-288.
Story's Commentaries--Vols. II and III. Review of Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, with a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States before the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. By Joseph Story, L.L. D. Dane Professor of Law in Harvard University. From The American Jurist and Law Magazine July 1833, Volume 10, pp. 119-147.
One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is, that Christianity is a part of the common law, from which it seeks the sanction of its rights, and by which it endeavours to regulate its doctrines. And, notwithstanding the specious objection of one of our distinguished statesmen, the boast is as true as it is beautiful. There never has been a period, in which the common law did not recognise Christianity as lying at its foundations.*
* See the remarks of Mr. Justice Park, in Smith v. Sparrow, 4 Bing. R. 84, 88.
For many ages it was almost exclusively administered by those, who held its ecclesiastical dignities. It now repudiates every act done in violation of its duties of perfect obligation. It pronounces illegal every contract offensive to its morals. It recognises with profound humility its holidays and festivals, and obeys them, as dies non juridici.
... [T]he Law of Nature ... lies at the foundation of all other laws, and constitutes the first step in the science of jurisprudence. The law of nature is nothing more than those rules, which human reason deduces from the various relations of man; to form his character, and regulate his conduct, and thereby ensure his permanent happiness. It embraces a survey of his duties to God, his duties to himself, and his duties to his fellow men; deducing from those duties a corresponding obligation. It considers man, not merely in his private relations as a social being, but as a subject and magistrate, called upon to frame, administer, or obey laws, and owing allegiance to his country and government, and bound, from the protection he derives from the institutions of society, to uphold and protect them in return. It is, therefore, in the largest sense, the philosophy of morals; what Justinian has defined justice to be, ?constans et perpetua voluntas jus suuum cuique tribuendi;-- or what may be denominated national jurisprudence, as expounded in the same authority; 'divinarum atque humanarum rerum notitia, justi atque injusti scientia.' With us, indeed, who form a part of the Christian community of nations, the law of nature has a higher sanction, as it stands supported and illustrated by revelation. Christianity, while with many minds it acquires authority from its coincidences with the law of nature, as deduced from reason, has added strength and dignity to the latter by its positive declarations. It goes farther. It unfolds our duties with far more clearness and perfection than had been known before its promulgation; and has given a commanding force to those of imperfect obligation. It relieves the mind from many harassing doubts and disquietudes, and imparts a blessed influence to the peaceful and benevolent virtues, to mercy, charity, humility, and gratitude. It seems to concentrate all morality in the simple precept of love to God and love to man. It points out the original equality of all mankind in the eyes of the Supreme Being, and brings down the monarch to the level of his subjects. It thus endeavours to check the arrogance of power, and the oppression of prerogative; and becomes the teacher, as well as the advocate of rational liberty. Above all, by unfolding in a more authoritative manner the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, it connects all the motives and actions of man in his present state with his future interminable destiny. It thus exhorts him to the practice of virtue, by all, that can awaken hope, or secure happiness. It deters him from crimes by all, that can operate upon his fears, his sensibility, or his conscience. It teaches him, that the present life is but the dawn of being; and that in the endless progress of things the slightest movement here may communicate an impulse, which may be felt though eternity. Thus Christianity becomes, not merely an auxiliary, but a guide to the law of nature, establishing its conclusions, removing its doubts, and elevating its precepts.
Mr. Justice Story's Funeral Discourse on Professor Ashmun. A Discourse pronounced at the Funeral Obsequies of John Hooker Ashmun, Esq., Royall Professor of Law in Harvard University, before the President, Fellows, and Faculty, in the Chapel of the University, April 5, 1833. By Joseph Story, LL.D., Dane Professor of Law. From The American Jurist and Law Magazine July 1833, Volume 10, pp. 40-52. Boston: Lilly, Wait, and Company. Philadelphia: Nicklin and Johnson. 1833.
The Constitutional class book: being a brief exposition of the Constitution of the United States: designed for the use of the higher classes in common schools. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1834. 162 pp.; 20 cm.
Notes: "The work properly forms a sequel to Mr. [William] Sullivan's Political class book; but it is, at the same time, altogether independent of it in its structure and design."--Pref./ Includes index.
An Eulogy on General George Washington: written at the request of the inhabitants of Marblehead, and delivered before them on the second day of January, A.D. 1800. / By Joseph Story, A.B.; [Two lines in Latin from Tacitus] [Salem, Mass.]: Printed by Joshua Cushing, County Street, Salem, 1800. 24 pp.; 21 cm. (8vo)
Washington's Papers: An Edition of these papers is preparing for publication under the following title: The Works of George Washington, with notes and historical illustrations, by Jared Sparks: the character and value of these papers, and the plan proposed for publishing them, may be understood from the following letters to the Hon. Joseph Story. [London], Harjette and Savill, Printers, [1827]. 24 pp.
Art. V--Christianity a Part of the Common Law. From The American Jurist and Law Magazine April 1833, Volume 9, pp. 346-349. A response to Thomas Jefferson's claim that Christianity is not a part of the common law.
Life and Letters of Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Dane professor of law at Harvard University. / edited by his son William W. Story. Boston: C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1851. Volume 1, Volume 2.
The Miscellaneous Writings: Literary, Critical, Juridical, and Political. Boston, 1835. 525 pp. Volume 1, Volume 2.
"Let me add, that he was also a Christian. He had studied the evidences of Christianity with professional closeness and care, and had given to them the testimony of his full assent; and he has often been heard to declare, that, in his judgment, the great facts of the gospel history were attested by a mass of evidence, which, in any court of law, would be perfectly satisfactory and conclusive. In the open and distinct avowal of his faith in its consistent practice, and in his liberal charity for others of different views, he is worthy of all imitation."
Stowe, C. E. (Calvin Ellis)
(1802-1886)
American educator.
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Wisdom and knowledge the nation's stability: an address delivered at Crawfordsville, Indiana, July 7, 1840, before the Euphonean [i.e., Euphronean] Society of Wabash College. [Crawfordsville, Ind.]: The Society, ([Cincinnati, Ohio]: Printed at the Cincinnati observer office), 1840. 20 pp.
"The United States will not suffer, but be the gainers by their liberality, provided our immigrant fellow-citizens will take pains to inform themselves respecting the nature of our institutions, will drop the prejudices and prepossessions of the countries from which oppression has driven them, and adapt themselves to the circumstances and customs of the land, which, with such unwonted liberality, receives, protects, and cherishes them."
History of the Books of the Bible, designed to show what the Bible is not, what it is, and how to use it. By Prof. Calvin E. Stowe. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1886 [c1885]. vi pp., 1 l., [9]-583 pp. incl. pl., facsims. front. plates. 23 cm.
The Religious Element in education: An Address delivered before the American Institute of Instruction, at Portland, Me., August 30, 1844. Boston, 1884. 34 pp.
Introduction to the criticism and interpretation of the Bible: Designed for the use of theological students, Bible classes, and high schools. Edition: In two volumes. Volume 1, Volume 2.
Cincinnati: Corey, Fairbank & Webster, 1835. 276 pp. ; 20 cm. OCLC: 7061775
Experimental particle physicist currently doing research on the ATLAS detector, one of the two multi-purpose particle detectors located on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. Professor at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. Learn more about Dr. Strauss here, here, and here
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Co-edited with Paul Copan, Tremper Longman III, Christopher L. Reese. Dictionary of Christianity and Science, The Definitive Reference for the Intersection of Christian Faith and Contemporary Science. Zondervan, April 25, 2017, 704 pp.
Scientific Evidence for God. YouTube presentation. Uploaded by Reasonable Faith, December 10, 2013. Dr. Michael Strauss, OU physics professor, presents evidence for God from physics on Nov. 11, 2013 on the UT Dallas campus. Dr. Strauss is a particle physicist involved in research at the Large Hadron Collider.
On the Origin of the Cosmos. YouTube presentation. Uploaded by Access Research Network, October 22, 2014. Dr. Michael Strauss is respected both in the National Laboratories where he conducts research in experimental elementary particle physics, and the university classroom where he has received many teaching awards. In this exclusive interview at UC Santa Barbara, Strauss tackles a number of provocative questions relating to the origins and design of our universe. He relates how the evidence pointing to an expanding universe and a moment of creation troubled many scientists in the 20th Century. As a result of mounting evidence for the beginning of the universe and the exquisite fine-tuning of natural laws and physical parameters necessary for life, most of these scientists have come to acknowledge a "superintellect" behind it all.
Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God. YouTube presentation. Uploaded by Craig Lampe, October 30, 2014. What if God and Science can coexist? This is related to a Sunday School series with discussion of how the Bible and science don't have to be at odds... They can actually support each other!
The Bible, Big Bang, and Evolution. YouTube presentation. Uploaded by Crossroads Ferney Projection, March 5, 2016, 2016. Mike Strauss discusses faith and science in this talk entitled "The Bible, Big Bang, and Evolution" at Crossroads Church in Ferney-Voltaire, France.
Sermon Preached at the Execution of Richard Doane. Introduction by David Barton: In this "Execution Sermon," Rev. Nathan Strong reminds his listeners of the terrible consequences of a sinful life apart from God, and urges them to be reconciled to God through Christ.
A Discourse, delivered on Friday, December 27, 1799: the day set apart by the citizens of Hartford, to lament before God, the death of Gen. George Washington; who died Dec. 14, 1799. / By Nathan Strong, Pastor of the North Presbyterian Church in Hartford. Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1800. 31, [1] pp.; 22 cm. (8vo)
Sermon Delivered on the State Fast, April 6th, 1798. Published at the request of the hearers. Hartford: Printed by Hudson & Goodwin., 1798. 20 pp. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Biblical scholar. Read more about Stuart here, here and here.
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A Harmony in Greek of the Gospels, with notes by William Newcome, D.D., Dublin, 1778: reprinted from the text and select various readings of [Jo. Jac] Griesbach, by the Junior Class in the Theological Seminary at Andover, under the superintendance of Moes Stuart, Associate Professor of Sacred Literature in Said Seminary. Andover [Mass.]: Printed by Flagg and Gould, 1814. 311 pp.
Letters on the Divinity of Christ: Addressed to the Rev. W. E. Channing, in answer to his sermon "On the Doctrines of Christianity"; with an introductory essay by Rev. George Fisk. London, R. Gladding, 1844. p. L., xxviii, 226 pp.
A Light Shining Out of Darkness, or, Occasional queries: submitted to the judgment of such as would enquire into the true state of things in our times / the whole work revised by the author, the proofs englished and augmented with sundry material discourses concerning the ministry, separation, inspiration, Scriptures, humane learning, oathes, tithes &c., with a brief apology for the Quakers that they are not inconsistent with magistracy by an indifferent but learned hand The third edition. London: Printed and sold by T. Sowle, 1699. [2], 230 [i.e. 258] pp.
Sturt, Charles Napier
(1795-1869)
English explorer of Australia. Soldier. Read about Captain Sturt here and here.
WORKS
Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia
Performed under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government during the Years 1844, 5, and 6; together with a notice of the province of South Australia in 1847. London: T. and W. Boone, 1849. 2 vol.: ill. (some col.), folded map; 24 cm. Extract from Volume 2:
"I trust that what I have said of the natives renders it unnecessary for me to add anything as to the caution and forbearance required in communicating with them. Kindness gains much on them, and their friendly disposition eases the mind of a load of anxiety--for however confident the Leader may be, it is impossible to divest the minds of the men of apprehension when in the presence of hostile natives. He who shall have perused these pages will have learnt that under whatever difficulties he may be placed, that although his last hope is almost extinguished, he should never despair. I have recorded instances enough of the watchful superintendence of that Providence over me and my party, without whose guidance we should have perished, nor can I more appropriately close these humble sheets, than by such an acknowledgment, and expressing my fervent thanks to Almighty God for the mercies vouchsafed to me during the trying and doubtful service on which I was employed." p. 143.
Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, duc de
(1559-1641)
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Translated from the French by Charlotte Lennox (ca. 1729-1804). The Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, prime-minister to Henry the Great. Edition: A new edition, revised and corrected, with additional notes, some letters of Henry the Great, and a brief historical introd. London: Printed for W. Miller; (London: Printed by W. Bulmer and co.) 1810. 5 vol.: ports.; 25 cm. Volume 1 extracts.
Sumner, John Bird
(1780-1862)
Archbishop of Canterbury. Read more about Sumner here.
With George Wilkinson. The Miracles of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: with the practical exposition of John Bird Sumner extracted from his grace's larger work on the four gospels. London: C. Cox, 1851. xii, 265 pp.; 18 cm.
A Treatise on the records of the creation and on the moral attributes of the creator with particular reference to the Jewish history and to the consistency of the principle of population with the wisdom and goodness of the Deity. 5th edition. London: J. Hatchard, 1833. xxix, 445 pp.Volume 1 of 2. 424 pp. Volume 2 of 2. 466 pp.
Sykes, Arthur Ashley
(1683/4-1756)
Rector of Raleigh, Essex, Author.
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An Essay on the truth of the Christian religion: wherein it?s real foundation upon the Old Testament is shewn. By Arthur Ashley Sykes, D.D. The second edition, corrected and enlarged. London, 1755. 337 pp.
A Brief discourse concerning the credibility of miracles and revelation. Wherein the credibility of the Gospel miracles is shewn, To which is added, a postscript in answer to the Lord Bishop of Lichfield?s charge to his clergy. By Arthur Ashley Sykes, D.D. The second edition. London, 1749. 270 pp.
A Defence of the dissertation on the eclipse mentioned by Phlegon: wherein is further shewn, that that eclipse had no relation to the darkness which happened at our Saviour's passion: and Mr. Whiston's observations are particularly considered. By Arthur Ashley Sykes, D.D. London, 1733. 87 pp.
John Disney. Memoirs of the life and writings of Arthur Ashley Sykes D.D.. London: printed for J. Johnson, 1790. xxiv, 388 pp. A reissue of the sheets of the 1785 edition with an appendix dated May 18, 1790./ Reproduction of original from the British Library.
1785 edition here. London: printed for J. Johnson, 1785. xxiv, 367, [1] pp. John Adams Library copy contains significant annotations in Adams's hand. Transcriptions of handwritten annotations available from Boston Public Library, Rare Books & Manuscripts Department. Notes: annotations sometimes very close to center margins, not completely visible on some pages (specifically pages 311, 317, 327, 334, 345, 352).
