Ministerial Responsibility: A Discourse, the Substance of Which Was Delivered Before the Synod of Philadelphia, at Its Late Meeting in Harrisburg (Pa.) Oct. 1827 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Ministerial Responsibility: A Discourse, the Substance of Which Was Delivered Before the Synod of Philadelphia, at Its Late Meeting in Harrisburg (Pa.) Oct. 1827
It is the common salvation. Like the rising sun, it belongs to all.
The passage selected for the text, With the kindred parts of the other Evangelists, embodies the same great truth, in the form of a command from the head of the church, and the sovereign of the world. Fill power is given unto me, 5m. &~c. Go ye therefore and teach all nations; preach the gospel to every creature: he that believeth shall be saved, he that' believeth not shall be damned.
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Controversy between the Rev. John Hughes, of the Roman Catholic Church, and the Rev. John Breckinridge, of the Presbyterian Church : relative to the ... the Roman Catholic and Protestant religions
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The Substance of an Address: Delivered by Charles Pearson, at a Public Meeting, on the 11th, 19th of December, 1843 (Classic Reprint)
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Mr. Hickson I understand pretends to palliate the application to me of such expressions as mendacious assertions by saying that I also can use hard words: he will be pleased to note the distinguishing difference be tween his conduct and mine in this particular; his attacks were secret and assassin-like, made against a man who had given him no provocation, and who was supposed to be bound by the duties of his ofice to sit silent under the attacks: whereas when I applied hard words to Mr. Hlsod, it was in his presence and hearing, and in return for the grossest provocation. Let him further understand, that in my life I never applied such expres. Sions to any man behind his back, and never published a line against any human being that did not involve my personal responsibility by carrying upon its face my name.
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An Address, Delivered July 15, 1835, Before the Eucleian and Philomathean Societies of the University of the City of New York (Classic Reprint)
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That was a moment of sublime and awful interest, and replete with great events, which made known the New World to Christopher Columbus. The consummation of this most memorable enterprise in the history of the world, is thus described by our own Irving, the biographer of the great Captain: When Columbus was wrapped from Observation by the shades of night, he maintained an intense and unremitted watch, ranging his eye along the dusky horizon, in search of the most vague indications of land. At two in the morn ing, a gun from the Piuta (the vessel of Columbus) gave the joyous Signal for land; whereupon they took in sail, and laid to, waiting impatiently for the dawn. The thoughts and feelings of Columbus in this little space of time, must have been most tumultuous and intense. The great mystery of the ocean was revealed his theory, which had been the scoff of sages, was triumphantly established; he had secured himself a glory, which must be as durable as the world itself. It is difficult for the imagination to conceive the feelings of such a man, at the moment of so sublime a. Discovery.
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John Breckenridge was an American Presbyterian clergyman and controversialist. He is noted for his service as a trustee of Princeton University, 1830-1841, and on the Board of Directors of Princeton Seminary, 1832-1836.
Background
John Breckenridge was born on July 4, 1797 in Fayette County, Kentucky. He was a descendant of Scotch-Irish settlers in Virginia, a Kentuckian by birth, who feared God but not the face of man. His father, John, attorney-general in Jefferson's cabinet at the time, died when his namesake was but nine years old, and he was brought up at his birthplace, Cabell's Dale, Kentucky, by a most capable mother, Mary Hopkins Cabell, daughter of Colonel Joseph Cabell of Buckingham County, Virginia, and by an older brother, his legal guardian.
Education
Before entering the College of New Jersey, where John Breckenridge enrolled in 1815 and from which he graduated with honors three years later, he had no thought of becoming a minister, for no one of his family was then a church member, and he had been destined for the law. It was in the face of considerable opposition from home, therefore, that having been converted from his "gay and wild career, " he persisted in his determination to preach the gospel. In 1820-21 he was a tutor at Princeton and a student in the theological seminary there.
Career
On August 1, 1822, John Breckinridge was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, and during 1822-23 was chaplain of Congress. He was ordained, September 10, 1823, by the Presbytery of West Lexington, Kentucky, and installed pastor of the McChord Church, Lexington.
His original intention had been to labor in a foreign field, but conditions outside his control, he states, forbade.
Outside the pulpit, his principal medium of attack was the Western Luminary, which he edited, and is commonly said to have established. This latter honor, however, probably belongs to the publisher, Thomas T. Skillman.
In 1826 Breckinridge became associated with Dr. John Glendy at the Second Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, and in 1831, secretary and general agent of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church. The General Assembly appointed him professor of pastoral theology in Princeton Seminary in 1836, which chair he relinquished in 1838 to become secretary and general agent of the Board of Foreign Missions.
His health was failing, however, and he held the office but two years. At the time of his death, which occurred at his birthplace, he was pastor-elect of the Presbyterian church in New Orleans, and had been chosen president of Oglethorpe University, Georgia.
As a controversialist Breckinridge became widely known through two series of debates with Rev. John Hughes, later archbishop of New York. The first of these, on the question "Is the Protestant Religion the Religion of Christ?" was conducted in the columns of the Presbyterian and the Catholic Herald in 1833, and was published under the title Controversy between Rev. Messrs. Hughes and Breckinridge, on the Subject, etc. (1834).
The second was carried on in the Union Literary and Debating Institute, Philadelphia, in 1835-36, and was on the question: "Is the Roman Catholic Religion in Any or in All its Principles or Doctrines Inimical to Civil or Religious Liberty?" followed by the question, "Is the Presbyterian Religion. Inimical, etc. ," published in 1836 under the title, A Discussion of the Question, Is the Roman Catholic Religion, etc. Both sides of these controversies were discussed frankly, ably, and at length, the discussions being enlivened with rather acrimonious personalities.
The widespread report that on his death-bed he repented his opposition to the Roman Catholic Church and asked for the ministry of a priest seems to have been thoroughly disproved. Besides the above, his published works include Ministerial Responsibility (1828); An Address Delivered July 15, 1835, before the Eucleian and Philomathian Societies of the University of the City of New York (1836); and the tenth lecture in Spruce Street Lectures on Missions (1833). After the death of his first wife he published A Memorial of Mrs. Margaret Breckinridge (1839).
He died at the age of 44 while visiting his Kentucky homeland, August 4, 1841, upon the land where he had been born at Cabell’s Dale.
Achievements
John Breckinridge was honored with the Doctor of Divinity degree by Union College in 1835. He was a trustee of Princeton University from 1830 to 1841, and on the Board of Directors of Princeton Seminary from 1832 to 1836.
His literary works were also recognized, which he wrote for the Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, for example, an article written in 1830 and titled, “The Claims of Foreign Missions, ” and then he provided another piece in 1832, “Sprague on Revivals of Religion. ” Other literary efforts included, An Address Delivered July 15, 1835, Before the Eucleian and Philomathean Societies of the University of the City of New York, 1836; Controversy Between the Rev. John Hughes, of the Roman Catholic Church, and the Rev. John Breckinridge, of the Presbyterian Church, Relative to the Existing Differences in the Roman Catholic and Protestant Religions, 1833 (this is a debate in the form of letters between the two); Introductory Address of the Board of Education to Youth, 1832; Ministerial Responsibility: A Discourse, The Substance of Which was Delivered before the Synod of Philadelphia, at its Late Meeting in Harrisburg, Oct. 1827, 1828; “On Christian Missions, ” 1833; and a brief article titled, “The Substance of an Address Delivered at the Third Annual Meeting of the Lexington Female Bible Society, ” 1826.
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Religion
In his religious affiliation John Breckinridge was a Presbyterian. He was afire with missionary ardor, however, an aggressive champion of the Protestant faith, and a crusader against heresy and wrong. In Presbyterian circles he stood forth as an uncompromising opponent of the New School theology, and while at Lexington he waged war against the liberalism of President Horace Holley of Transylvania University.
Personality
John Breckinridge was a person of intellectual strength, eloquence, and ability as a debater, which quickly lifted him into prominence but the intensity of his zeal soon wore out a none too robust body.
In later life a disease affected his throat, so in the closing months of his life his fine preaching voice was so diminished that he could barely whisper.
Connections
After the death of his first wife Margaret Miller, whom he married on January 1823, and who was a daughter of Prof. Samuel Miller, of Princeton Theological Seminary, he married a second time in 1840 to Mary Ann Babcock of Stonington, Connecticut.
