What's New at Log College Press? - July 15, 2022

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As Log College Press continues to grow, we have much to report. The site has now reached over 15,000 works among over 1,900 authors. In June 2022, we added 341 new works.

One new book was published in June as well: Dylan Rowland, ed., Pandemic Pastoring. This is a collection of sermons, letters, and biographical notes from 19th-century American Presbyterians - offering helpful reflection for today's believers in walking through the wake of pandemic suffering.

We like to highlight some of the new free PDFs available as found on our Recent Additions and Early Access pages, two features provided to members of the Dead Presbyterians Society.

Early Access:

  • Henry Kollock, Christ Must Increase: A Sermon, Preached Before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (1803)

  • Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Is the Shorter Catechism Worthwhile? (1909, 1979)

  • Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, John R. MacKay, Benjamin B. Warfield -- A Bibliography (1922)

  • Geerhardus Vos, Our Lord’s Doctrine of the Resurrection (1901)

Recent Addtiions:

  • Robert Aitken — Journals of the Proceedings of Congress (1776-1777)

  • Samuel Buell, The Excellence and Importance of the Saving Knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Gospel-Preacher, Plainly and Seriously Represented and Enforced: and Christ Preached to the Gentiles in Obedience to the Call of God: A Sermon, Preached at East-Hampton, August 29, 1759; at the Ordination of Mr. Samson Occum (1761)

  • Compilations, Auburn Affirmation (1924)

  • Compilations, The New Psalms and Hymns [PCUS] (1901)

  • John Samuel MacIntosh (1839-1906),The Worthies of Westminster: A Contribution to the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster (1899)

  • James Calvin McFeeters, Sketches of the Covenanters (1913)

  • Alexander Taggart McGill, Life By Faith: A Sermon Preached Before the Synod of New-Jersey, at the Opening of Its Sessions, at Rahway, New-Jersey, Tuesday Evening, October 21st, 1862 (1862)

  • Thomas Verner Moore — Several poems and articles.

  • Absalom Peters, Life and Time: A Birth-Day Memorial of Seventy Years. With Memories and Reflections For the Aged and the Young (1866)

  • Robert Fleming Sample, I Hear a Voice, ‘Tis Soft and Sweet (1898) [hymn]

We have also created some new topical pages: 1837 Old School / New School Division, Anonymous Writings and Book Reviews. These are all works-in-progress so please check back as the content continues to grow.

Be sure also to check out the quotes we have been adding at our blog for DPS members: Though Dead They Still Speak.

B.B. Warfield - We decided to streamline Warfield’s author page by taking his book reviews, which are numerous, from his main author page and transferring them to a new B.B. Warfield Book Reviews page. Together the number of B.B. Warfield works at Log College Press now exceeds 500 and continues to grow. We also want to highlight a new resource that Warfield readers will appreciate. Our friend Barry Waugh (Presbyterians of the Past) has created a useful, annotated database showing 1,268 book reviews written by B.B. Warfield for Princeton journals. See that tremendous resource here.

Stay tuned as we continue to expand our digital bookshelves. It is our prayer at Log College Press that resources made available here will be an encouragement to our 21st century readers that the past has much to teach us in the present about the advancement of Christ’s kingdom in the earth. Blessings, and thank you, as always, for your support.

Henry Kollock: If Christ Be Loved

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The Rev. Henry Kollock was a much-admired pastor at the Independent Presbyterian Church of Savannah, Georgia. He died young, at the age of 41, but after his death four volumes of his sermons were published. One volume was published during his lifetime: Sermons on Various Subjects (1811).

One of the particular sermons contained in this volume is “Love to the Saviour” (Sermon XIII), a memorable discourse which stirs the heart to greater adoration of our Redeemer.

If Christ be loved, the Holy Spirit who “takes of the things of Christ and shews them unto us,” will be loved also: we shall gladly cherish his dictates and motions upon the heart; we shall listen to his voice directing us in our duty, with joy receive his testimony in the inner man, open our souls for the reception of his influences, and be careful not to quench, to grieve, or resist him. If Christ be loved, his scriptures which contain his will, his promises, his threatnings will be loved also: “O how I love thy law; it is my meditation all the day;” is the language of him who has this affection. If Christ be loved, his ordinances where he is wont to meet with his people will be most dear: “How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts; a day in thy courts is better than a thousand;” this is the sentiment of their hearts whose affections are fixed upon Jesus, and who attend his ordinances not to pay him a cold formal visit, but to enjoy delicious intercourse with him. If Christ be loved, his children who bear his image will be loved: “By this,” saith the Saviour, “shall men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love to one another.” If we admire the perfections of the Lord, we must delight to see these perfections enstamped upon any of his creatures; if we love him we cannot be indifferent to those who are the objects his tenderest affection. If Christ be loved, his cause and interest will lie near our hearts: if his mercies be despised, his authority be contemned, his glories overlooked by a thoughtless world, his friends are deeply grieved, and exclaim with David, “Rivers of waters run down mine eyes because men keep not thy law;” or with Jeremiah, “Because you will not hear, my soul shall weep in secret places for you.”

May these words ring in our ears today. With so many reasons and motives to do so, how our hearts ought to be stirred up with more ardent love to the one who gave himself for us and in whose image we are remade when we are born again. Jesus Christ is the only true Savior, and how we ought to love the one who first loved us, and to manifest that love in our lives, thoughts and actions. Read Henry Kollock’s sermon in full here.

Henry Kollock: Christ Must Increase

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When Henry Kollock delivered a sermon before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was just 24 years old and newly-appointed to serve as a Professor of Divinity at the College of New Jersey at Princeton. His sermon was titled Christ Must Increase. A Sermon Preached Before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America; by Appointment of Their Standing Committee of Missions, May 23, 1803, which can be found in Vol. 4 of Sermons on Various Subjects, and it left a mark on his hearers.

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In this sermon, based on John 3:30, Kollock argues that it is a definite truth that Christ and his kingdom will increase, and that this truth gives both consolation to believers and a direction to duty.

Drawing from the Psalms, Isaiah, Daniel, Malachi and the writing of John in Revelation, among other Scripture texts, Kollock argues that as the kingdom of God grows on earth — like a mustard seed — every nation will be blessed to call Jesus Lord.

And what a consolation this is to those who love Jesus, to know that His work will advance and none can hinder it. When we look around and see so many people lying in darkness, void of the gospel, it is heartbreaking. But the promises of God assure us that the good news of Christ’s death and resurrection will reach every land, and that people all around the world will indeed praise him.

This knowledge leads to our duty as believers, for “we are workers together with God,” who must needs accomplish his purposes in the earth. We have a duty to pray for the extension of Christ’s kingdom in the world, and a duty to labor for the same, according to our place and calling. We can contribute to the work of missionaries, even if we are not called to be missionaries. An obligation is upon us to be missionary-minded.

Take time to read this missionary sermon by Henry Kollock, which is over 200 years old. It will still stir the hearts of any today who love the name of Jesus and desire to see his name magnified to the furthest ends of the earth. It is promised that “He will increase,” and this sermon offers assurance, consolation and direction to every believer to whom this promise is precious.