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Excerpt from The Faithful Steward: Being an Impartial Investigation of the Subject, Is the Church Justifiable in Baptizing Adults Without Evidence of Their Faith and Repentance The general praaice which prevailed in the Jewifh church, of admitting the profane to privileges, and the great omiflion in reference to the exclufion or cutting ofi' thofe who did not exhibit a converfation declarative of the faith and godlinefs of Abraham, became a fruitful Youree of many evils: the idea of Abraham, as the father of the faithful, refers more to his example, and to him as a pattern, according to which the charaé'ter who would obtain a {land in that church fliould be formed than to his natural relation to his pollerity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Archibald Cameron was born about 1771 in Lochaber, Scotland; the youngest of six children born to John and Jannet (McDonald) Cameron of Ken Loch. . In 1773-74 the family emigrated to America and located near Redstone, on the Monongahela River in western Virginia, whence the family moved, in 1781, to Kentucky and eventually settled on a farm near Bardstown in Nelson County. The parents died soon after their arrival in Kentucky.
Angus Cameron--a strange anomaly among frontiersmen, in that he was quite at home with Greek and Latin texts--directed the early training of his younger brother, Archibald. After spending about a year at Transylvania Seminary, Lexington, Archibald finished his literary course under the guidance of James Priestley of Bardstown, and then studied theology with David Rice of Danville.
Licensed to preach in 1795 and ordained the following year, Cameron began a ministry of forty years' duration.
Freed from "worldly cares and avocations" by an emolument, which, in 1806, amounted to $217. 75 if all the subscriptions were paid, Cameron rode about the country, often swimming his horse across the Salt River, to organize new churches and to encourage the struggling congregations already established. He combated with an unbending orthodoxy the schisms which threatened to destroy the Presbyterianism his Calvinistic inheritance and training had led him to support. With New Light, Shakerism, Socinianism, and even with the "absurdities of Methodism" which he deemed "more pernicious, owing to their prevalence, than the Papist errors, " he contended in church assembly and in pamphlet. He was prominent in the state synods from the first, in 1802, until his death, and usually served on the judiciary committees so that he came to be recognized by his contemporaries as the greatest judicial theologian of Presbyterianism in Kentucky. His published works, including such titles as The Faithful Steward (1806), A Defense of the Doctrines of Grace (1816), A Reply to Some Questions on Divine Predestination (1822) and An Exposure of Falsehood and Folly (1829), were brochures, controversial in nature, opposing certain doctrines such as that of "abstracted atonement, " which were fashionable in some sections of the Presbyterian church.
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He was a member of the commission appointed by the Kentucky Synod of 1804 to inquire into the Cumberland controversy.
Cameron was a tireless student, blunt and reserved in manner, and careless in dress, but possessed of a native eloquence and keen powers of satire that made him a much feared adversary.
He never married.
