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Showing posts with label 19th Century. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 19th Century. Show all posts

Friday, September 30, 2016

The Infallibility of the Church - 1888
George Salmon 1819-1904


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Salmon







Lecture 1 - Introductory: The Controversy with Rome (page 1)
Lecture 2 - The Cardinal Importance of the Question of Infallibility (page 17)
Lecture 3 - The Argument in a Circle (page 46)
Lecture 4 - The Grammar of Assent (page 61)
Lecture 5 - Milner's Axioms, Part 1 (page 78)
Lecture 6 - Milner's Axioms, Part 2 (page 98)
Lecture 7 - The Church's Office of Teaching (page 108)
Lecture 8 - The Church's Sources of Proof (page 124)
Lecture 9 - The Rule of Faith (page 138)
Lecture 10 - Hermeneutical Tradition (page 152)
Lecture 11 - Does the Church of Rome Believe in Her Own Infallibility (page 169)
Lecture 12 - The Hesitations of the Infallible Guide (page 188)
Lecture 13 - Modern Revelations (page 201)
Lecture 14 - The Blunders of the Infallible Guide (page 226)
Lecture 15 - The Gallican Theory of Infallibility (page 257)
Lecture 16 - General Councils, Part 1 (page 274)
Lecture 17 - General Councils, Part 2 (page 296)
Lecture 18 - The Prerogatives of Peter (page 323)
Lecture 19 - Peter's Alleged Roman Episcopate (page 341)
Lecture 20 - The Infancy of Roman Supremacy (page 360)
Lecture 21 - The Progress of Roman Supremacy (page 389)
Lecture 22 - The Infallibility of the Pope (page 419)
Lecture 23 - The Pope's Temporal Power (page 438)
Appendix - Decrees of the Vatican Council (page 471)
Index (page 487)















Saturday, September 24, 2016


The Book of Psalms the Book of Praise
From The Evangelical Repository, Volume 13, page 49-50 - 1854

Robert J. Dodds (d. 1870)
A minister of the gospel in the Reformed Presbyterian Church.









From The Reformed Presbyterian and Covenanter - March 1871








A Reply to Morton on Psalmody: To which is Added a Condensed Argument for the Exclusive Use of an Inspired Psalmody - 1851 - Robert J. Dodds
John Taylor Pressly (1795-1870)

















The Presbyterian minister John T. Pressly was born in Abbeville, S.C., March 28, 1795. He studied under John Mitchell Mason at the Associate Reformed Theological Seminary in New York, N.Y. (now Union Theological Seminary). Pressly served as pastor to a Presbyterian Church in Abbeville before simultaneously obtaining a professorship at Western Theological Seminary (Pittsburgh, Pa.), and a pastorate at First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (Allegheny City, Pa.) in what is now Pittsburgh in 1830. Pressly died August 13, 1870.



ENLARGED BY TWO ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS, EMBRACING A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF COL. 3:16, 17, AND THE MODERN HISTORY OF PSALMODY
Second Edition - 1848
By John T. Pressly, D.D. (1795-1870)

















Some works against Dr. Pressly's views on psalmody:






Defense of an Inquiry into the Propriety of Using an Evangelical Psalmody in the Worship of God: Against the Objections of Rev. John T. Pressly, D.D. - 1844 - Samuel Ralston, D.D. (1756-1851)
Review of Dr. Pressly on Psalmody, by the Rev. George Morton - 1850 - George Morton (1807-1893)




A Vindication of the "Letters on Psalmody," from the Strictures of John T. Pressley, D. D. - 1866 - William Annan (1805-1882)


Robert J. Dodds responded to George Morton in 1851:
A Reply to Morton on Psalmody: To Which is added a Condensed Argument for the Exclusive Use of an Inspired Psalmody - 1851 - Robert J. Dodds




















































Lectures on the Nature, Subjects, and Mode of Christian Baptism - 1841 - John T. Pressly (1798-1870)   Second Edition 1853
Judicial Decisions on the Identify and Property of the United Presbyterian Church of America, Containing the Arguments of Counsel, Together with the Decisions both in the Lower and Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania and New York, on the Law of Church Property, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY REV. JOHN T. PRESSLY, D.D., OF ALLEGHANY CITY, PA. - 1862

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Sunday, August 28, 2016




Letter 1: Introductory. Every power of man should be devoted to the service of God -- Importance of Psalmody -- Difference of opinion on the subject -- Division of the church -- Importance of union -- Proposal of accommodation -- Hopes of success -- Mistakes corrected -- Attention to the subjected requested (page 9)


Letter 2: Ancient History of Psalmody. Character of the age of the Fathers -- True history of Psalmody in the early ages -- Pliny -- Tertullian -- Jerome -- Cyril -- Augustine -- Cassian -- Chrysostom -- Apostolic Constitutions -- Others -- Remarks (page 26)


Letter 3: Modern History of Psalmody.  Summary remarks -- Waldenses -- Wickliffe -- Huss -- Luther -- Calvin -- Church of England -- Scotland -- Watts -- American churches -- Congregationalists -- Presbyterians -- Associate -- Associate Reformed -- Reformed Presbyterians -- Sentiments and Practice of -- Reflections (page 70)


Letter 4: Reasons for Retaining the Book of Psalms.  Subject stated -- Versions -- Arguments -- Divine institution -- Suitableness of matter -- Excellence -- Human compositions not appointed -- Bad arguments -- Evil tendency of preferring human to inspired songs -- Summary (page 95)


Letter 5: Objections Considered.  Scripture our only rule -- Col. 3:16 considered -- Demands answered -- New mercies require a new song -- Book of Psalms abrogated -- Cannot be sung in truth -- May sing as well as pray in our own words -- Book of Psalms obscure -- Inadequate -- Modern hymns more favourable to revivals -- More elegant in diction -- Watts had as good a right to make psalms as David -- Cursing psalms -- Christ not named in them (page 155)


Appendix. 
No. 1 -- Dr. Watts (page 209);
No. 2 -- Mode of Singing (page 219);
No. 3 -- Use of Old Testament Psalms in New Testament Worship (page 220)





Sunday, August 21, 2016

William Binnie 1823-1886


Dr. William Binnie was ordained as a minister in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland. He served first as Professor of Systematic Theology and Homiletics at the College in the Craigs of Stirling and beginning in 1875 as Professor of Church History and Pastoral Theology at the Free Church College in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Dr. Binnie is best known for the work cited here: The Psalms: Their History, Teachings, and Use.


From "Allibone's Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors" (page 149) by Samuel Austin Allibone






The Psalms: Their History, Teachings, and Use - 1870
The Psalms: Their History, Teachings, and Use - 1886
A New Edition, Revised, Enlarged, and Compared Throughout with the Revised Version of the Old Testament