https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/podcasts/98526/ Puritan and Reformed Pastoral Sermons narrated by T M Sullivan, first for his own benefit and warning, 2nd to supplement others in their meditations in solitude or groups. Religion & Spirituality The Narrated Puritan http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification https://vps.sermonaudio.com/resize_image/sources/podcast/1440/1440/soluschristus.1649373899.jpg https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/podcasts/98526/ en Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:37:39 +0000 30 Thomas Sullivan no Puritan and Reformed Pastoral Sermons narrated by T M Sullivan, first for his own benefit and warning, 2nd to supplement others in their meditations in solitude or groups. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/61023163911478 Young men were indeed taught less than they are now taught in theological seminaries; they heard and transcribed fewer lectures;-they were not listeners merely, but were allowed to be inquirers, and even encouraged to be disputants. The consequence was, that while they were taught less, they studied more, thought more, wrote more; and their minds were better disciplined, if not so richly furnished. With less learning and fewer attainments, they were abler men; abler casuists, abler polemics; abler, more instructive, and more practical and acceptable preachers of the Gospel. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/61023163911478 Religion & Spirituality Sat, 10 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Gardiner Spring 0:38:17 no Gardiner Spring - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/61231125585306 From the life of Payson by Asa Cummings. Praying Payson from Portland Maine. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/61231125585306 Religion & Spirituality Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Edward Payson 0:35:24 no Edward Payson - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/1015222157362041 A talk given at the fall conference of the Indiana Reformed Baptist Association in Indianapolis, IN https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/1015222157362041 Religion & Spirituality Sat, 15 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:48:57 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/92522218295668 This class starts with the story of I. C. Herendeen and A. W. Pink and the publishing of the Sovereignty of God. Then the influence of Herendeen on the earliest Reformed Baptist Churches as well as the startup of Ministerial Training and the indebtedness to Westminster Theological Seminary. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/92522218295668 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 25 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:49:36 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/918222031116668 The Battle For Confessional Subscription in the Presbyterian Church 1869-1937 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/918222031116668 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 18 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:38:17 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/91222019272710 The story of Nathaniel Taylor VS Bennet Tyler and how Taylorism affected the Presbyterian Church causing the New-School Old-School Division. The trials of Albert Barnes and Lyman Beecher for Heresy in 1836. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/91222019272710 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 11 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:45:41 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/87221220467968 Did the followers of Jonathan Edwards actually reflect Edwards's teaching on The Imputation of Adam's Sin, The Nature of Sin, The Evidences of Regeneration, and other doctrines. Who were these theologians and how far did they go astray? Jonathan Edwards JR., Samuel Hopkins, Joseph Bellamy, Nathaniel Emmons, those were were labeled the New England Theologians and the founders of the New Divinity or New Haven Theology. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/87221220467968 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 07 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Lyman Atwater 0:48:37 no Lyman Atwater - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/61322115156397 From Mather's Works of Christ In America. After the fervent supplications of this day, accompanied by their affectionate friends, they took their leave of the pleasant city, where they had been pilgrims and strangers now for eleven years. Delft-Haven was the town where they went on board one of their ships, and there they had such a mournful parting from their brethren, as even drowned the Dutch spectators themselves, then standing on the shore, in tears. Their excellent pastor, on his knees, by the sea-side, poured out their mutual petitions unto God; and having wept in one another's arms, as long as the wind and the tide would permit them, they bade adieu. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/61322115156397 Religion & Spirituality Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Cotton Mather 0:33:01 no Cotton Mather - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/323221428555315 Baptist Persecutions in Colonial America, 1600s. Rated PG. movie announcer: Anne Hutchinson, an antinomian, Mary Dyer and "The Monster Baby" Four Boston Martyrs, The whipping of a Baptist pastor who would not allow his children to be baptized in Congregational Massachusetts who slept on his elbows and knees for two weeks due to the pain, Roger Williams The Bloody Tennent and a Baptist pastor who would not ratify the Constitution at the pleading of James Madison without the addition of a first amendment. The Price of Soul Liberty. H C Fish. An argument for exercising your right to vote. All in today's edition of The Man of God podcast. A shameless plug. Why? To inform an audience of our Baptist struggles for religious freedom. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/323221428555315 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:38:21 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/2822149123195 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/2822149123195 Religion & Spirituality Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Archibald Alexander 0:17:16 no Archibald Alexander - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/13122131861739 An Earnest Exhortation is one of the most revealing documents of the period of how the Puritan ministry squarely located cause and effect of all their actions in God's providential and soteriological design for New England. - The Mather Project https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/13122131861739 Religion & Spirituality Mon, 31 Jan 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Increase Mather 0:34:32 no Increase Mather - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/1231211746271439 Davies gives an account of his labors in Hanover, VA at one time pastoring between 7 churches. Many churches in England donated books to give to those who could barely read and slaves who were being taught to read. 1751-1757 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/1231211746271439 Religion & Spirituality Fri, 31 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Samuel Davies 0:42:24 no Samuel Davies - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/1228211315285812 Encyclopedia com "NEW HAVEN THEOLOGY Also known as Taylorism, refers to the 19th-century New England theological system that originated with Nathaniel William taylor, professor at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Conn. (1822–58). An exposition of Puritan theology, it was the most influential and controversial since that of Jonathan edwards. Using rational philosophy, Taylor devised a system that dealt with human responsibility and featured freedom of the will. Taylor, called "the Pelagianist" by some Calvinists, taught that there is a native sinlessness in man, an ability in him to renovate his own soul, and self-love, or the desire for happiness, is the source of all voluntary action. Although he considered himself to be in the Edwards tradition, Taylor's views represented a serious departure from strict Puritan Calvinism (see great awakening). His teaching that man's acts are not necessitated, but free, because man may act "in a contrary way at all times," was interpreted by many as a denial of Calvinism's cardinal tenet on the absolute sovereignty of God. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/1228211315285812 Religion & Spirituality Tue, 28 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Rev. Bennet Tyler 0:37:25 no Rev. Bennet Tyler - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/12421015552634 A young man said to me, 'Parson, you gave me a book, (Baxter's Call,) which I have been reading, and it has made me feel very unhappy. I feel that my condition is awful, and I desire to find peace.' I pointed him to the Lord Jesus. While passing through a hospital with my tracts one poor, afflicted soldier wept piteously and said, 'Sir, I cannot read; will you be good enough to read some of those tracts to me?' I read several, and among them, 'A Mother's Parting Words to her Soldier Boy.' 'Oh,' said he, 'that reminds me so much of my poor old mother, who has faded from earth since I joined the army.' He wept and seemed greatly affected." https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/12421015552634 Religion & Spirituality Fri, 03 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000 William Bennett 0:35:57 no William Bennett - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/12321037376939 Our government is not,—it is true,— a Christian government, because Christ's kingdom is not of this world,—but it is a government created by Christian men,—framed in accordance with Christian principles,—founded upon and presupposing Christian institutions as existing in the land—and looking to the influence and power of Christian principles for its growth, stability and permanency. Our government never would have been conceived—devised—determined — instituted — and triumphantly established but for Christianity, and it cannot outlast the subversion or practical neglect of Christianity and its institutions a single day. The wisdom to devise good laws, the allegiance that will support, uphold and obey them—and the power necessary to administer and enforce them—can only flow from that religion which founds government upon the ordinance of God and demands obedience on the ground of conscientious obligation. The exercise of your prerogative, therefore, in voting at elections is an important duty. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/12321037376939 Religion & Spirituality Thu, 02 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Smyth 0:18:36 no Thomas Smyth - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/1130212341175652 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/1130212341175652 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 01 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000 David Brainerd 0:19:27 no David Brainerd - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/12121206432280 Judah's Mercies and Transgressions Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church Allegheny John 1856 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/12121206432280 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 01 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Elisha Swift 0:18:48 no Elisha Swift - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/12221320154730 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/12221320154730 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 01 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:10:11 no Jonathan Edwards - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/11121168375800 As to Cotton Mather's attending the courts, when the witches were tried at Salem , himself and his accuser are directly at variance. The latter says he did attend . Mr. Mather affirms that he did not . " I was not present," he says, " at any of them . " https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/11121168375800 Religion & Spirituality Mon, 01 Nov 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Enoch Pond 0:34:20 no Enoch Pond - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/10302127191880 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/10302127191880 Religion & Spirituality Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Robert G. Lee 1:14:09 no Robert G. Lee - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/1028211310284938 For the 1833 edition of the American Baptist Magazine, the details of how the magazine evolved to a a missionary report and history magazine is detailed starting with the history of the Judson's in Burmah. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/1028211310284938 Religion & Spirituality Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Adoniram Judson 0:30:44 no Adoniram Judson - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/10212130216944 The Christian should manifest his character, because he lives for nothing else. When a man is converted to God, he is prepared that moment for heaven;—that is, he has passed through the great revolution of moral feeling which will henceforward distinguish him from the wicked ; and if he then dies, God will receive him to rest. It becomes then a most interesting question, why does God continue his stay on the earth ? Why does he ordain that he shall still be doomed to live in a world of sin—to encounter contempt, and persecution, and poverty, and temptation, and lingering disease 1 Were an angel of bliss arrested in heaven, and commanded to descend to our scenes of calamity and want and wo—to be the tenant of a human body, and the object of the ribaldry and scorn of the world, it would be a case for which he would expect that some reason could be rendered. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/10212130216944 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Albert Barnes 0:34:24 no Albert Barnes - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/10152116767041 A quick look at the type of articles, revival stories, missionary endeavors, letters to the editor, biographical sketches in a magazine from 204 years ago. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/10152116767041 Religion & Spirituality Fri, 15 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Adoniram Judson 0:31:34 no Adoniram Judson - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/10162101615780 One of the earliest sermons of Edwards on record. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/10162101615780 Religion & Spirituality Fri, 15 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:25:50 no Jonathan Edwards - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/10162111603608 A fragment of a sermon that is likely his ordination sermon in the Yale edition of his works. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/10162111603608 Religion & Spirituality Fri, 15 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:20:38 no Jonathan Edwards - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/9421122701762 Every natural man's heart and life is a mass of darkness, disorder, and confusion, however refined he may appear in the sight of men. Says the apostle Paul, "At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another." Titus 3:3; and yet, at the time which this text refers to, "he was blameless," touching the righteousness which is in the law, Phil. 3:6. This is a plain evidence that "the eye is evil, the whole body being full of darkness," Matt. 6:23. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/9421122701762 Religion & Spirituality Sat, 04 Sep 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Boston 0:45:39 no Thomas Boston - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/9421137443324 This is a well-known execution sermon from seventeenth-century Massachusetts, delivered on the occasion of the sentencing to death of a young man convicted of bestiality—specifically of copulation with a mare, in which he was discovered in the open in broad daylight. Samuel Danforth, who wrote and delivered the sermon, would have known the condemned young man very well. Benjamin Goad had been born into Danforth's congregation at Roxbury and had grown up under his pastoral care. Danforth was also familiar with the anguish of a parent over the death of a child, having suffered the deaths of eight of his own children; he would himself be dead within the year. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/9421137443324 Religion & Spirituality Fri, 03 Sep 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Samuel Danforth 0:34:50 no Samuel Danforth - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/932104835888 Mr. Upham is never at a loss to know what Mr. Mather" contemplated " on any occasion , - what " he longed for," what " he would have been glad to have, " — what " he looked upon with secret pleasure," — and what " he was secretly and cunningly endeavoring " to do. Mr. Peabody also knows when " Cotton Mather was in his element," and what he enjoyed the great felicity of." We do not hope to follow these writers into the dark recesses of Mr. Mather's mind ; but in the course of this investigation we shall take up some of their statements and examine them in the light of evidence that may be regarded as historical. William Poole, 1869 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/932104835888 Religion & Spirituality Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:00:00 +0000 William Poole 0:31:47 no William Poole - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/826211037598031 A mother, not long since, under similar circumstances, not being able to persuade her child to take the medicine, and not having sufficient resolution to compel it, threw the medicine away. When the physician next called, she was ashamed to acknowledge her want of government, and therefore did not tell him that the medicine had not been given. The physician finding the child worse, left another prescription, supposing the previous one had been properly administered. But the child had no idea of being convinced of the propriety of taking the nauseous dose, and the renewed efforts of the mother were unavailing. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/826211037598031 Religion & Spirituality Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:00:00 +0000 John Abbott 0:22:36 no John Abbott - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/82621119592485 I once knew a mother who had an only son. She loved him most ardently, and could not bear to deny him any indulgence. He, of course, soon learned to rule his mother. At the death of his father, the poor woman was left at the mercy of this vile boy. She had neglected her duty when he was young, and now his ungovernable passions had become too strong for her control. Self-willed, turbulent, and revengeful, he was his mother's bitterest curse. His paroxysms of rage at times amounted almost to madness. One day, infuriated with his mother, he set fire to her house, and it was burned to the ground, with all its contents, and she was left in the extremist state of poverty. He was imprisoned as an incendiary, and, in his cell, he became a maniac, if he was not such before, and madly dug out his own eyes. He now lies in perpetual darkness, confined by the stone walls and grated bars of his dungeon, an infuriated madman. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/82621119592485 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 25 Aug 2021 12:00:00 +0000 John Abbott 0:22:54 no John Abbott - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/817211615306389 From the History of Connecticut - Revivals before 1737-38 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/817211615306389 Religion & Spirituality Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Benjamin Trumbull 0:38:39 no Benjamin Trumbull - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/72221175364943 The research for this podcast I have put together for the last 4 days trying to learn the history of the Bible Truth Depot, Swengel PA. This was for a podcast for Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary detailing the founding of our first Reformed Baptist Churches in America. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/72221175364943 Religion & Spirituality Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:45:24 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/718211243304049 Betsey Stockton, the first single woman missionary in the modern mission era, was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1798. At an early age, she was given to the wife of Reverend Ashbel Green as a domestic slave. Shortly after her conversion, Betsey was granted freedom by the Greens, who supported the abolitionist movement. However, a law requiring gradual emancipation didn't go into effect until 1825. For this reason, she remained in the Greens' household as a paid domestic servant. The Greens treated her as a member of their family and allowed her to continue her education. - From Missionaries You Should Know. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/718211243304049 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 18 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:27:19 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/71221132506787 Of course, these parties are hostile. They can never be reconciled. The points between them are vital. The righteous can never approve of the ways, characters and principles of the wicked. Each one of them says with David: "Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred : I count them mine enemies." But the wicked hate the persons of the righteous, and are bitter against them. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/71221132506787 Religion & Spirituality Mon, 12 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000 William S. Plumer 0:21:38 no William S. Plumer - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/71221316307552 Rev. John W. Nevin, Dear Sir— The undersigned having listened with feelings of intense interest to the very excellent sermon delivered by you this morning in the First Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, take the liberty of soliciting from you a copy of the same for publication. We are persuaded that the precautionary measures, which you have this day so eloquently recommended, cannot fail, if generally known and adopted, to mitigate the horrors of the pestilence with which it has pleased the Almighty to visit our beloved country; and although we sincerely trust that our own neighborhood may be exempted from the deadly scourge, yet, it is the part of wisdom and of true courage to prepare for a calamity which the ingenuity of man has hitherto been unable to avert. July 6, 1832 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/71221316307552 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 11 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000 John Nevin 0:32:19 no John Nevin - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/6242125534176 John Cotton expresses the need to limit governmental power because of the corrupt nature of human beings. Similarly human beings cannot be allowed complete freedom or liberty because of their corruption. … And they that have liberty to speak great things, you will find it to be true, they will speak great blasphemies. [Drawn from John Cotton, An Exposition upon the 13th Chapter of Revelation (London) 1656), https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/6242125534176 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 23 Jun 2021 12:00:00 +0000 John Cotton 0:07:20 no John Cotton - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/622122964004 B. M. Palmer relates a series of personal experiences bereaving a deceased child; how to come to terms with the loss, honor the memory of the departed, and rediscover meaning, hope and value in life. The loss of one's son or daughter is among the most soul-shattering experiences a parent can go through. Witnessing a loved one's decline as illness takes hold, and having to make the experience of dying comfortable for them while dealing with the emotional impact, is a process defined by anguish and difficulty. The author lived at a time when child mortality was higher than in the modern day; experiencing loss successive times, it is only with sheer strength of will that the author was able to continue living. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/622122964004 Religion & Spirituality Tue, 01 Jun 2021 12:00:00 +0000 B. M. Palmer 1:19:49 no B. M. Palmer - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/57211743111954 In 2003 during a round table discussion at the Tricentennial of Jonathan Edwards's birth, John Piper had a very interesting dialogue with IaIn Murray and Mark Dever on the method of Edwards in evangelism. In this podcast it was my goal to comment on that exchange. And by doing so, point out the missing elements in modern evangelical testimonies of conversion compared to written accounts before 1850. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/57211743111954 Religion & Spirituality Fri, 07 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:42:09 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/316211511475583 Edited for the Man of God Network Podcast, a ministry of Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary, Owensboro, KY "Stonewall Jackson urged Doctor Broadus, saying to Doctor Jones: "Write to him by all means and beg him to come. Tell him that he never had a better opportunity of preaching the gospel than he would have right now in these camps." He promptly replied that he would be glad to come; that he had been seriously and prayerfully considering the question; and that he had only been prevented from entering the army before by a doubt as to whether his feeble health could stand the exposure of camp life; but that he would at least try it as soon as he could make his arrangements. When I met General Jackson a few days after the reception of Doctor Broadus's letter, and told him that he would come, the great soldier said in his characteristic phrase: "That is good; very good. I am so glad of that." https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/316211511475583 Religion & Spirituality Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:42:29 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/313212123171159 The premium of three hundred dollars which was awarded to the writer of the following Essay , was offered by Mr. John DUNLOP of Edinburgh, Scotland. The Judges appointed were , the REVEREND JEREMIAH DAY, D. D. L. L. D. PRESIDENT of YALE COLLEGE, the REVEREND EDWARD D. GRIFFIN, D. D. PRESIDENT of Williams College, and the REVEREND HEMAN HUMPHREY, D. D. PRESIDENT of AMHERST COLLEGE . The publication of the Essay was delayed some time, for the purpose of receiving the directions of Mr. Dunlop. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/313212123171159 Religion & Spirituality Sat, 13 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Leonard Woods 1:24:57 no Leonard Woods - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/31321214937326 Sunday School taught about the year 2008. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/31321214937326 Religion & Spirituality Sat, 13 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:55:10 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/312211325275286 Mr Dickinson's Letter Addressed to the Rev Mr Foxcroft, of London "Elizabethtown, August 23rd, 1743. "In these towns, religion was in a very low state; professors generally lifeless, and the body of our people careless, carnal and secure, till some time in August, 1739, the summer before Mr Whitefield came first into these parts, when there was a remarkable revival at Newark, especially among the rising generation, many of whom were now brought under convictions, and instead of frequenting vain company as usual, were flocking to their minister with that important inquiry, 'What shall we do to be saved?' https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/312211325275286 Religion & Spirituality Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Dickinson 0:14:21 no Jonathan Dickinson - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/38211420465571 Northampton, May 12, 1743 Rev. and Dear Sir, ..."I am persuaded we shall generally be sensible, before long, that we run too fast, when we endeavor by our positive determinations to banish all fears of damnation from the minds of men, though they may be true saints, if they are not such as are eminently humble and mortified, and (what the Apostle calls) "rooted and grounded in love" [Ephesians 3:17]. It seems to be running before the Spirit of God. God by his Spirit does not give assurance any other way, than by advancing these things in the soul. He does not wholly cast out fear, the legal principle, but by advancing and filling the soul full of love, the evangelical principle. When love is low in the true saints, they need the fear of hell to deter them from sin, and engage them to exactness in their walk, and stir them up to seek heaven; but when love is high, and the soul full of it, we don't need fear. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/38211420465571 Religion & Spirituality Mon, 08 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Edwards 0:43:05 no Jonathan Edwards - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/3421141762869 Finding a place that pleased me, at the foot of a projecting rock, in a dark valley, I began with great earnestness the course which I had prescribed to myself. I prayed, and then read in the Bible, prayed and read, prayed and read, until my strength was exhausted ; for I had taken no nourishment that day. But the more I strove the harder my heart became, and the more barren was my mind of every serious or tender feeling. I tasted then some of the bitterness of despair. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/3421141762869 Religion & Spirituality Thu, 04 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Archibald Alexander 0:30:17 no Archibald Alexander - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/226212316541726 Also includes the first editorial written for the Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, July 1800 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/226212316541726 Religion & Spirituality Fri, 26 Feb 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Rev. Bennet Tyler 0:21:05 no Rev. Bennet Tyler - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/1121165367702 Atheism has attempted to proceed thus : It admits that, inasmuch as beings now exist , beings must have eternally been in existence . But, it asks , why may not the eternal somethings have been caused somethings , such as those we see around us ; separated from us in duration by an infinite number of intermediate links in chains of similar beings ? To this scheine of a self existent infinite series, uncaused from without, philosophy advances these insuperable objections: That in such a series no immediate antecedent is , by itself, adequate cause for its immediate successor ; and that , previous links in the chain could not be cause, since they were totally absent from the rise of the sequent effect. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/1121165367702 Religion & Spirituality Fri, 01 Jan 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Robert L. Dabney 0:55:37 no Robert L. Dabney - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/129201444585558 This recording is part of a new series created for a podcast consisting of Baptist Biographical Sketches for The Man of God series presented by Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary. This account is taken from the work by Henry Gouger, Two Years Imprisonment in A Burman Prison and the detailed letter Ann wrote to her brother in law. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/129201444585558 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 09 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:24:49 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/128201357317072 This recording is part of a new series created for a podcast consisting of Baptist Biographical Sketches for The Man of God series presented by Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/128201357317072 Religion & Spirituality Tue, 08 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:25:27 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/10420128511495 This narration includes the preface and amazing observations of Jonathan Edwards. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/10420128511495 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 04 Oct 2020 12:00:00 +0000 David Brainerd 0:40:16 no David Brainerd - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/81201154278143 The great revival, which about a hundred years ago, visited so extensively the American Churches, is so much implicated with the ecclesiastical history of our own denomination, that the latter cannot be understood without some knowledge of the former. The controversies connected with the revival, are identical with the disputes which resulted in the schism, which divided the Presbyterian Church in 1741. Before entering, therefore, upon the history of that event, it will be necessary to present the reader with a general survey of that great religious excitement, which arrayed in conflicting parties the friends of religion in every part of the country. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/81201154278143 Religion & Spirituality Sat, 01 Aug 2020 12:00:00 +0000 Charles Hodge 0:49:47 no Charles Hodge - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/8120120183589 Such is the ambiguity of human language, such the deceitfulness of the human heart, and such the devices of Satan, that no mere detail of feeling, and especially no description which one man may give of the feelings of others, can afford conclusive evidence of the nature of those feelings in the sight of God. Two persons may, with equal sincerity, profess sorrow for sin, and yet their emotions be essentially different. Both may with truth declare that they believe in Christ, and yet the states of mind thereby expressed, be very dissimilar. Both may have peace, joy, and love, yet the one be a self-deceiver, and the other a true Christian. We must, therefore, look further than mere professions or detail of experiences, for evidence of the real character of this work. We must look to its effects. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/8120120183589 Religion & Spirituality Sat, 01 Aug 2020 12:00:00 +0000 Charles Hodge 0:17:34 no Charles Hodge - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/63202146244293 This biographical sketch focuses more on the teachings of Pink, or Pink as a writer compared to the first lesson taught in 2009. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/63202146244293 Religion & Spirituality Wed, 03 Jun 2020 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:56:37 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/31020948502360 "In what age, by what sect, where, when, by whom, has religious truth been excluded from the education of youth? Nowhere. Never! Everywhere, and at all times, it has been regarded as essential. It is of the essence, the vitality of useful instruction." https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/31020948502360 Religion & Spirituality Tue, 10 Mar 2020 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:42:09 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/31020944122204 This is a class originally taught in 2009. It is more biographical, part 2 taught March 2020 is an introduction to his writings. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/31020944122204 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 08 Mar 2020 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:50:32 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/224201038542366 Up and up we toiled until we reached an altitude of six thousand feet, and were within about ten miles of our companions at the lake, when the intense cold drove us into camp on Prosser Creek in Alder Creek Valley. Father's face was very grave. His morning caress had all its wonted tenderness, but the merry twinkle was gone from his eye, and the gladsome note from his voice. Eliza Donner Houghton https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/224201038542366 Religion & Spirituality Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:54:06 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/12419047121660 Stonewall Jackson urged Doctor Broadus, saying to Doctor Jones: "Write to him by all means and beg him to come. Tell him that he never had a better opportunity of preaching the gospel than he would have right now in these camps." He promptly replied that he would be glad to come; that he had been seriously and prayerfully considering the question; and that he had only been prevented from entering the army before by a doubt as to whether his feeble health could stand the exposure of camp life; but that he would at least try it as soon as he could make his arrangements. When I met General Jackson a few days after the reception of Doctor Broadus's letter, and told him that he would come, the great soldier said in his characteristic phrase: "That is good; very good. I am so glad of that. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/12419047121660 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 01 Dec 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:46:26 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/11261904449140 The life and influence of Charles Hodge is so vast. In a 1 hour class, there was only time to really focus on two things. How his conversion affected his view of revival, and a general overview of Princeton Seminary and educating ministerial aspirants for the pulpit. A quick look ahead to how liberalism captured the northern Presbyterian Church with a couple of reviews and overviews of Gary North's Crossed Fingers is also opened up. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/11261904449140 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 24 Nov 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:53:50 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/11111912851395 Daniel Baker 1791-1857. A contrast is made between the revivals under his ministry, and those of Charles Finney born 1 year later. It was usual for me to write one sermon with care, and commit it to memory for Sabbath morning; for other occasions I had only brief notes, and sometimes no written notes at all; and here I will mention an incident which turned out better than I feared. One Sabbath afternoon, just as I had announced my text, which was this— "Ephraim is a cake not turned"— John Quincy Adams, the Secretary of State, stepped in, and walking up the aisle, took his seat near the pulpit. The reverence which I had for this great man, the singularity of the text, and my want of due preparation, all united to disconcert me; I was thrown off my balance, and preached, as I then thought, and still think, a very indifferent discourse. It had, however, one excellence, not found in most of my sermons—it was very short; not more than twenty or twenty-five minutes long. When I finished, I was excessively mortified, and thought I would never see the Secretary of State in that church again; but, to my astonishment, the next week, I was told he had rented one of the best pews in the church. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/11111912851395 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 10 Nov 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:48:27 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/114191043396736 It is true, in his preface, he disclaims all pretensions to infallibility, but in his lectures, he more than once substantially assumes it. He tells his hearers, in relation to promoting revivals, " If you will go on to do as I say, the results will he just as certain as they are when the farmer breaks up a fallow field, and mellows it, and sows his grain." He speaks repeatedly of the " endless train of fooleries" the " absurdities" the " nonsense" which, up to his time, have been taught both in private and from the pulpit. He declares, " there is only here and there a minister who knows how to probe the church," &c. " This is a point where almost all ministers fail." Princeton Review 1835 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/114191043396736 Religion & Spirituality Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:55:35 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/102819958322755 For ten or eleven years, Mr. Nettleton had been laboring almost constantly in revivals of religion. During this time, he preached, generally, three sermons on the Sabbath, and several during the week, besides spending much time in visiting from house to house, and conversing with individuals on the concerns of their souls. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/102819958322755 Religion & Spirituality Mon, 28 Oct 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:53:44 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/102019225155502 Before me, stretched on the floor, lay forty or fifty hapless wretches, whose crimes or misfortunes had brought them into this place of torment. They were all nearly naked, and the half- famished features and skeleton frames of many of them too plainly told the story of their protracted sufferings. Very few were without chains, and some had one or both feet in the stocks besides. If the ensemble be difficult to portray, the stench was absolutely indescribable, for it was not like anything which exists elsewhere in creation. (H Gouger) https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/102019225155502 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 20 Oct 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:54:44 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/1126192228511213 "As it respects ourselves," Mrs. Judson writes, "we are busily employed all day long. I can assure you that we find much pleasure in our employment. Could you look into a large, open room, which we call a veranda, you would see Mr. Judson bent over his table, covered with Burman books, with his teacher at his side, a venerable-looking man in his sixtieth year, with a cloth wrapped round his middle, and a handkerchief round his head. They talk and chatter all day long, with hardly any cessation." https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/1126192228511213 Religion & Spirituality Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:46:03 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/106192340287561 From Judson's diary: May 11. Had more or less company, from morning till night; among the rest, Moung, and two or three others, who appear to be pretty well satisfied that the Buddhist religion has no foundation. Conversation was very animated, and somewhat encouraging; but I wanted to see more seriousness, and more anxiety to be saved from sin. " Heard much to-day of the danger of introducing a new religion. All agreed in opinion that the king would cut off all who embraced it, being a king who could not bear that his subjects should differ in sentiment from himself https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/106192340287561 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 06 Oct 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:53:11 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/92319045127329 Rise of Infidelity after the Revolutionary War, "The French rulers, under the reign of atheism, during the Administration of John Adams, plied every art to bring the Government of the United States into political alliance with the French nation, and we were on the eve of a war with our ancient ally and friend. So imminent was the danger that Washington was appointed again commander-in-chief of the American armies, and accepted the appointment, with the understanding that he was not to take the field till actual war had begun. "Dregs of Infidelity vomited upon us, was the opinion of Yale President Timothy Dwight. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/92319045127329 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 22 Sep 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:44:07 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/91519239177702 Last week we looked at the Life of Samuel Davies whose ministry Patrick sat under, so we examined this Christian Statesman next. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/91519239177702 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 15 Sep 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:48:18 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/98192316422255 In 1969 Lloyd-Jones told an audience in Philadelphia - you Americans don't know one of your greatest preachers. In this Sunday School, T Sullivan seeks to make him known to his class. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/98192316422255 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 08 Sep 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:40:25 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/93192341442748 The life of Samuel Hopkins with an emphasis on the beginnings of the anti-slavery movement in the 18th century. Jonathan Edwards Jr., Nathaniel Emmons and Sarah Osborn's works are also noted. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/93192341442748 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 01 Sep 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:47:21 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/93192324181057 An overview of Brainerd's life with an investigation of his conversion in detail, and what the Puritans called "a law work." https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/93192324181057 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 25 Aug 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:57:07 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/9219235662469 This lesson is an attempt to introduce the writings and sermons of Edwards by using his words as a commentary on parts of Pilgrim's Progress. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/9219235662469 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 18 Aug 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 1:00:22 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/93191011582492 The Price of Soul Liberty for the Baptists in the 1600s is a book written by Henry Clay Fish. In this Sunday School the persecution and the story of The Boston Martyrs is also examined. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/93191011582492 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 28 Jul 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:42:22 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/9319106536637 The Salem Witch Trials and Cotton Mather - in this lesson the case for Cotton and Increase Mather being the perpetrators of the Witch Trials is examined and found lacking. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/9319106536637 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:46:48 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/9319101571043 Christianity in America Series - 1 - William Bradford and the Mayflower https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/soluschristus/sermons/9319101571043 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 07 Jul 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Thomas Sullivan 0:42:33 no Thomas Sullivan - Christianity in America