Footnotes

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This discussion appeared in The Southern Review for April, 1873, being a review of, 1. Short Studies on Great Subjects, and History of England: By James Anthony Froude. 2. Works of William Ellery Channing, D. D. 3. Symbolism of Catholics and Protestants: By J. A. Mhler, D. D. 4. Journal and Works of the Revelation John Wesley, D. D. Philadelphia. Vols. III., IV. Ft2 A sermon preached in the chapel of Union Theological Seminary. Ft3 This treatise appeared in the Southern Presbyterian Review, July, 1879, reviewing, 1. Eternal Hope. By Canon Farrar. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. 1878. 2. The Death of Death. By an Orthodox Layman. Richmond, Va.: Randolph & English. 1878. Ft4 Appeared in The Southern Presbyterian Review for October, 1884, reviewing The Doctrine of Original Sin, as Revised and Taught by the Churches of the Reformation, Stated and Defended. By the Rev. Dr. R. W. Landis. Whittet & Shepperson, Richmond, Va. 1884. Ft5 Appeared in The Southern Presbyterian Review of January, 1872, being a re. view of 1. Gods Way of Peace. By the Rev. H. Bonar. Richmond: Presbyterian Committee of Publication. 1870. 2. Mllers Life of Trust. Edited by Wayland Boston: 1870. 3. Notes on Genesis. By C. H. M., of Dublin. New York: Inglis & Colles. 4. Scripture Testimony. Edited by Charles Campbell. New York: James Inglis & Co. 5. A Word to Young Believers. By W. DeR. B. Dublin Tract Society. 6. The Return of the Lord Jesus. By J. G. Bellet. Dublin Tract Society. 7. Waymarks in the Wilderness. New York: Inglis & Colles. 8 vols., 12mo. 8. The Witness. New York: James Inglis & Co. 9. Who are the Plymouth Brethren? Mrs. H. Grattan Guinness. Philadelphia. 1861. Ft6 This letter was in reply to certain strictures on the foregoing article, and was published in the South-Western Presbyterian, addressed to the editor. Ft7 This article appeared in the Southern Presbyterian Review for April, 1873, reviewing Systematic Theology, by Charles Hodge, D. D. Charles Scribner & Co. 3 vols. 8vo. Ft8 Calvins Institutes, Book III., Chap. XI., 10. Owen on Justification, Chap. IX., pages 236-7. Bostons Fourfold State, pages 195-6. Turretin, Loc. XV., Ques. 15, 4. Ridgeley, Vol. III., pages 45, 47. Confession of Faith, Chap. X.; Chap. XI., first sentence; Chap. XIV., 1; Larger Catechism, Ques. 66, 67, 69.

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This article appeared in the Southern Presbyterian Review for July, 1880. This article appeared in the Southern Presbyterian Review for April, 1871, reviewing: 1. Novum Testamentum Grce et Latine. Carolus Lachmannus. Berlin 1832, 1842. 2. Tregelles on the Printed Text of the Greek New Testament. London: Bagster. 1854. 3. Novum Testamentum Grce. Edited by Constantine Tischendorf. Leipsic: 1862. 4. Authorized English Version of the New Testament, with Introduction and Various Readings from the three most celebrated Manuscripts of the Original Greek Text. By C. Tischendorf. Tauchnitz Edition. Leipsic: 1869. 5. Bibliorum Codex Sinait. Petropolitanus, Fac Simile. By Constantine Tischendorf. (Imperial Edition, Folio.) St. Petersburg. A. D. 1862. Ft11 This article appeared in the Southern Presbyterian Review for July, 1881, reviewing the Revised Version of the New Testament. New York: Thomas Nelson Sons.
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This article appeared in the Southern Presbyterian Review for January, 1882, reviewing The Old Testament in the Jewish Church. Twelve Lectures on Biblical Criticism. By W. Robertson Smith, M. A. New York: D. Appleton & Co. I Vol., 12mo, pp. 300. Ft13 From The Southern Presbyterian Review of April, 1881 Ft14 Hippolytus, Vol. II. Ft15 Edinburgh Review, Oct, 1880, p. 270 Ft16 Edinb. Review, Oct., 1880, p. 274 Ft17 Mod. Doubt. And Chr. Belief, p. 27 Ft18 This article appeared in the Southern Pulpit, April, 1881. ft19 A sermon preached at Fredericks Hall, Va., in Hoods (4th) Texas Brigade, June 22, 1862, and published in tract form at the request of Gen. Stonewall Jackson. General Thomas J. Jackson, during his forced march from the Valley of Virginia to the Chickahominy, halted his command, for the Sabbath, along the line of the Virginia Central Railroad, from Gordonsville to Fredericks Hall, in the county of Louisa. He himself spent the sacred day at the latter place, in the hospitable home of N. Harris, Esq. I ascertained that the brigade of Hood, near us, had at that time no chaplain present, and offered to conduct public worship for them. This offer was courteously accepted by their General, and the afternoon of the bright Sabbath was chosen as the time, and a dilapidated country church, near the encampment, as the place. These troops, having been attached to the command of General Jackson a few days before, were strangers to his person, and naturally anxious to see

the far-famed soldier. This desire, with better motives on the part of some, brought the whole brigade to the appointed place. The little wooden church was packed, the open grounds beside it crowded, and the fences and the very trees loaded with human bodies. To provide for the multitude without, General Hood proposed that the speaker should be placed, not in the pulpit, but in a side door, where a table was arranged for him. Along bench next this door was intended for General Jackson. As party after party entered the house, and finding no vacant seats elsewhere, were about to occupy this bench, General Hood arose again and again, and remarked: That seat is reserved for General Jackson and his staff. This repeated caution seemed at length to beget in all minds the vision of a brilliant cavalcade, dashing up with the far-famed Stonewall Jackson at its head, and displaying any amount of military pomp and finery. After a few moments a buggy was seen creeping along, containing the General in a sunburned uniform, and a person in black. The two dismounted, and proceeded with their own hands to detach the horse, and tie him to a swinging limb. After this, the General slipped quietly into the house and took his seat. Noticing, as he approached, one or two companies of Texans marching up in regular ranks, though unarmed, he said: See there, that is what I like. After the close of the service, he saluted the officers near him, returned to the vehicle, reattached the horse with no other assistance than that of his clerical companion, and returned to his quarters. The great multitudes around him behaved throughout with the strictest decorum; and not a man betrayed the slightest manifestation of unseemly curiosity. As we were returning, General Jackson said to me: Your subject this evening was of great importance, and some of your views new to me. I wish all my men could read your sermon. I should be glad if you would reduce it to writing, when other duties permit I know you cannot have time for this now, but hereafter, when operations in the field are less urgent-and let me have it. I will print it myself and supply my command. To this request I could only promise compliance. The pressure of duties in the field, then protracted sickness, then the death of my revered commander, with a train of subsequent disasters, have long delayed my fulfilment of the pledge. It is, in my eyes, only the more sacred, that he is no longer upon earth to remind me of it. Having at length found another medium (through the Publishing Committee of our church, which prints it simply for the sake of the great truths of redemption it contains), I now present the sermon to the survivors of those for whom General Jackson designed it. I beg them to receive it as his message; his adopted testimony to the necessity and nature of the new birth. It comes to

them as a voice from beyond the grave, as well as an affecting mark of the zeal and love of the departed Christian soldier towards their souls. R. L. DABNEY. Union Theological Seminary, December 20, 1868. Ft20 Most of Gods commands are simply expressions of the essential and unchangeable rightness of the things commanded, as when we are enjoined to speak truth and love God. These precepts divines call moral or permanent moral. The things are commanded because they are right in themselves. But some things God commands or forbids for wise reasons which, without his precept, would not be of themselves right or wrong. Such was the prohibition to the Jews to eat swines flesh. These precepts the divines term positive. The things are right or wrong only so long as, and only because, God enjoins and prohibits them. Many ceremonial commands, rules about ceremonies, are of this kind. Ft21 Westminster Confession of Faith, XXI Secs. 7, 8. Ft22 The next place to be cited is Heb. 4: 9. This verse (with its context, which must be carefully read) teaches that, as there remains to believers under the Christian dispensation a hope of an eternal rest, so there remains to us an earthly Sabbath to foreshadow it. The points to be noticed in the explanation of the chapter are: That God has an eternal spiritual rest; that he invited Old Testament believers to share it; that it is something higher than Israels home in Canaan, because after Joshua had fully installed Israel in that rest, Gods rest is still held up as something future. The seventh day (verse 4) was the memorial of Gods rest, and was thus connected with it. It was Tinder the old dispensation, as under the new, a spiritual faith which introduced into Gods rest, and it was unbelief which excluded from it. Dot as Gods rest was something higher than a home in Canaan, and was still offered in the ninety-fifth Psalm long after Joshua settled Israel in that rest, it follows (verse 9) that there still remains a sabbatism, or Sabbath-keeping, for Gods people under the new dispensation; and hence (verse 11) we ought to seek to enter into that spiritual rest of God, which is by faith. Now, let it be noted that the word for Gods rest throughout the passage is a different one from Sabbath. But the apostles inference is that because God still offers us his rest under the new dispensation, there remaineth to us it Sabbath-keeping under this dispensation. What does this mean? Is the sabbatism identically our rest in faith? But the seventh day was not identically that rest; it was the memorial and emblem of it. So now sabbatism is the memorial and emblem of the rest. Because the rest is ours, therefore the Sabbath-keeping

is still ours; heaven and its earthly type belong equally to both dispensations. Ft23 A sermon preached for the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, in New York, May 2, 1858. Ft24 Mat. 9:37, 38; Mar. 4:20; Luk. 10:12. Ft25 Gal. 4: 4. Ft26 Isa. 49: 8. Ft27 2Co. 6: 2. Ft28 Psalm 19. Ft29 Rom. 1:20. Ft30 Rom. 1:21. Ft31 Rom. 2:12. Ft32 Rom. 3: 9. Ft33 Rom. 2: 6, 10, 11. Ft34 Heb. 10: 4. Ft35 Conf., Chap VI., Secs. 2, 3.. Ft36 Act. 27:26. Ft37 Joh. 3: 3. Ft38 Rev. 22:11. Ft39 Rom. 9:18. Ft40 Rom. 1:28 See also 2Th. 2:10-12. Ft41 Rom. 3:12. Ft42 1Co. 4: 7. Ft43 Act. 4:12. Ft44 Mar. 16:15. Ft45 2Co. 11:23-27. Ft46 2Co. 5:14. Ft47 Rom. 10:12-15. Ft48 Rev. 14: 6. Ft49 Eze. 1:18. Ft50 Joh. 4:34. Ft51 2Co. 8: 9.

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The private correspondence of General T. J. Jackson with Mrs. Jackson was found to contain an account, and quite a full and correct analysis, of the following sermon, in a letter written August 26, 1861. The author has been induced, by what, it is hoped, will be considered a pardonable infirmity, if it is an infirmity, from the knowledge of this fact, to select it for insertion, from among the many preached in the camps. It was prepared and preached many years before to a little social assemblage in the authors pastoral charge, with especial reference to a venerable mother in Israel there present. On the 25th of August, 1861, the Sabbath day, the 18th regiment was encamped within a mile of the Stone-wall Brigade. The latter lay on the wooded ridge east of Centerville, Fairfax Co., Va., where the main road to Alexandria crosses it. On the right of the way was the encampment of the infantry and on the left that of the artillery and the quarters of the General. Being requested by him to preach for his command, and having secured a supply for his own regiment, the author delivered this sermon in the woods, in the presence of the General and his staff, and a promiscuous assemblage of men and officers. It seemed to him to present a subject not inappropriate to Christian soldiers, whose business it was to die for their country. It was hoped that the sublime truths revealed to us in this passage of Gods word would be impressive to those who were out of Christ, and consoling to those who were united by faith to him; and especially, that the Divine Comforter would bless them to such as, in his secret purpose, might be appointed unto death. Subsequent events have shown that among this number was the great leader himself; and it is felt as no small favor of the Head of the church that this discourse was carried as a message of consolation and strength to that devout and consecrated heart, as was shown by the elevated joy with which he received its doctrine, and his reference to it in his letters. So may it strengthen the souls of all Gods chosen ones to whom it comes, and deliver them who, through fear of death, have been all their lifetime subject to bondage.

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See Luk. 9:30, 31; Luk. 23:43; Php. 1:21; 2Co. 5: 8; Php. 1:23. Rom. 8: 1, 33. Ft55 Heb. 10:14-18. See also Psa. 103:12; Mic. 7:19; Rom. 5: 1.
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Luk. 16:22; 23:43; Act. 7:59; 2Co. 5: 1, 6-8; 1Co. 15:50; Heb. 12:23; Rev. 21:27. Ft57 Rev. 14:13. Ft58 Joh. 17:24. Ft59 1Th. 4:17. Ft60 1Jo. 3: 2.

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Psa. 16:11. A sermon, commemorative of the death of Abraham C. Carrington. Preached in College Church, Va., Dec., 1862. Ft63 A sermon preached in the College Church, Hampden Sidney, Va., February, 1860. Ft64 A sermon preached in the chapel of Union Theological Seminary, and published by request of the students. Ft65 A sermon preached before the Synod of Virginia, at Danville, Va., October, 1879.