John Knox Witherspoon was a Presbyterian minister, a president of what is now Princeton University, and a signer of the US Declaration of Independence. As a politician, he was a staunch nationalist and republican; as a minister, he was an evangelical opponent of the Moderate Party of the Church of Scotland. In 1768, he became the sixth president of The College of New Jersey at Princeton, where he focused on reforming the school to better train Presbyterian ministers and the future Protestant leaders of the nation.
This collection of Witherspoon’s works includes essays, observations, letters, speeches, and 47 sermons by this great thinker and preacher. With Logos Bible Software, this collection is completely searchable, making the text easier to access for scholarly work and personal study. Scripture appears on mouseover in your preferred translation, and the Logos version integrates seamlessly into your digital library, so your dictionaries and other reference tools are only ever a click away.
The author hath long been of opinion that the great decay of religion in all parts of this kingdom is chiefly owing to a departure from the truth as it is in Jesus, from those doctrines which chiefly constitute the substance of the Gospel.
—Rev. John Witherspoon
