1687-Alexander Shields.-In this chapter, examines the claims of those who exercise a providential civil rule contrary to the perceptive will of God. He explains the duties of magistrates and limits of obedience due to those who fail in their pactional duties.
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1664-John Flavel.-In this treatise, Flavel addresses the issue of intercommuning with churches in decline and the problem with hearing corrupt ministers and attending corrupt ministries. Flavel is decidedly against occasional communion and has very strong warnings against occasional hearing.
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1876-Reformed Presbytery "Steelite."-These are the terms of communion reflecting the need to stress certain features of these terms due to the declining tendenies of the age.
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1836-John T. Pressly.-A lecture warning against the increasing practice of intercommunion due to its harm to the interests of true religion and its disregard for creeds and ecclesiastical standards.
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1823-John Dow.-An historical account of the disturbance in the Scottish RP church and the removal of the Auchensaugh Renovation from the fourth term of communion.
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1806-John Reid II.-A discussion of why the church needs to have terms of communion together with a defense of the terms of communion adopted by the Reformed Presbyterian church. This was written and issued as an official production of the presbytery.
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1930-William J,. McKnight (1865-1951).-An easy to understand introduction to the reason and practice of close communion explaining why the Lord's supper should be restricted only to confessional and communicant members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, i.e., Covenanters.
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William Sommerville.-A tract defending close communion against the false charity of open communionists and ecumenists.
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1865-John T. Pressly.-An examination of the scriptural principles of church fellowship which explains why the communicant fellowship of the church ought to be restricted to those who hold the creed of that body. It also indicates why the practice of open communion is neither helpful not truly ecumenical.
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1852-Anonymous.-An article which appeared in the Covenanter Magazine, edited by J.M. Willson, which explains why confessional communicant members of the RP church should not attend the ministry of the Word by sectarian ministers outside of the church.
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1852-Anonymous.-An article which appeared in the Covenanter Magazine, edited by J.M. Willson, which defends the practice of confessional communion against the lax and latitudinarian practices creeping into the church.
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1833-Anonymous.-An article taken from the Princeton Review, edited by Charles Hodge, explaining the danger to the souls of recent converts by letting them participate in the sacrament of the Lord's supper and why catechism should precede communion.
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1761-Reformed Presbytery, of Scotland, Ireland and America.-These are the terms of communion as they were adopted by the Reformed Presbytery, in 1761. The American church abandoned them in 1806; the Scottish church in 1822; the Irish church later.
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1819-John Black.-A synodical sermon that explains why the false charity of intercommunion amongst various sects of Christians is contrary to a sound profession and practice of the true religion.
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1794-John Anderson.-A sermon which explains what happens when men are given over to hearing the ministrations of erroneous teachers. Anderson discusses the doctrines and practical reasons for maintaining confessional integrity by avoiding sectarian ministers or ministers not of one's own communion.
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1877-John McAuley.-This article explains why unity is not always the best course, if we would be faithful to the Lord and his church.
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