1811-James Renwick Willson.-One of Willson’s earliest productions, this article shows his familiarity with numerous fields of natural science. Willson was, at this time, disqualified from his ministerial pursuits due to some kind of ailment. As the local classical teacher, in the Bedford Academy, he may have been attracted to the healings properties exhibited by these springs.
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1812-James Renwick Willson.-In this address, Willson, who was a young school teacher at the Bedford Academy, explains to his young scholars the value of learning Latin, Greek and Hebrew. He was himself a trained classical scholar and hoped to instill in his students a love for the classics.
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1817-James Renwick Willson.-This is a very interesting account of the short acquaintance that Willson had with a son of an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme court. The young Dr. Todd fell ill along the way home to Kentucky and was kept in Willson’s company which issued in his conversion before death. This narrative also suggests the harmful effects of the theater on the minds of men, especially youth. It is a cautionary tale which ends in redemption.
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1817-James Renwick Willson.-An excellent survey of the various views held concerning the atonement throughout the history of the church showing together with a demonstration of the pervasive belief in vicarious atonement with its relation to the doctrine of predestination. It was written to combat Hopkinsianism.
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1820-James Renwick Willson.-An excellent presentation of the doctrine of the Mediatorial reign of Christ and its implications for all nations and kingdoms. This is the Covenanter postmillennial vision.
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1821-James Renwick Willson-This begins with a very pointed response to the rejection of this Review by the editors of the Presbyterian Magazine. What follows Willson’s exposure and critique of Isaac Watts as an antitrinitarian and the implications for church psalmody.
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1821-James Renwick Willson.-A sermon showing that the obligation to civil government as well as the obligations of the civil magistrate are founded and grounded in the Moral Law particularly as it is to be discovered in the Fifth Commandment.
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1822-James Renwick Willson.-This address is a moving plea for the honorable disposal of the bodies of the dead, especially those who have died in pursuit of noble causes.
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1823-James Renwick Willson.-In this essay, Mr. Willson attacks one of the most cherished false doctrines of his day and ours, the wicked notion that tolerance is always a good position in religious matters.
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1825-James Renwick Willson.-A sermon advocating an optimistic future for the church on earth and a call not to fret but to remain faithful is bearing testimony to the truth not compromising with error. In the end, the church will be victorious and the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord.
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