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The Collected Writings of James Henley Thornwell, Volume 4: Ecclesiastical is unavailable, but you can change that!

The fourth volume of Thornwell’s collected writings, labeled “Ecclesiastical,” wraps up the set with thoughts on church government, structure, and discipline. Also contained in this resource is historically important documentation regarding Thornwell’s pro-slavery viewpoint, as well as detailed reasoning as to the separation of the Southern Presbyterian Church from the Presbyterian Church.

It seems to us self-evident that “we have no more warrant”—to use the language of Dr. Breckinridge near the close of his Sermon—“we have no more warrant from God to make a church-government for Him, and in His name, than to make any other part of His religion. It is idle to talk about church government being jure divino in its great principles and not in its details, or, as they say, in the abstract and not in the concrete. The truth is, it is both, for not only are the great principles laid down
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