Article from the early days of The Biblical Repertory, Charles Hodge was just 32. The sermon was preached by Samuel Cox who was aiming at Old Calvinism's view of God's Sovereignty in Regeneration.

Constancy and steadfastness in believing is the great evidence of union with Christ and participation in Him.

John Calvin's commentary on the Psalms, Psalm 1

How may we distinguish between the workings of natural affection, and the real exercise of grace in religious duties- This serious question recently came into my hands in these very words. Upon reading it, I could not help but see that it contained a query of the greatest importance, and therefore thought it might be very proper to take it into consideration, and give it as clear a solution as lay in my power. I confess it is a very close and interesting inquiry that requires some skill to answer it, but much more spiritual skill to apply it to our own hearts and cases. You will easily see both the importance and difficulty of the question, by stating it in this free and familiar manner.

Letter to the Evangelical Alliance Signifying his withdrawal from that Association regarding the Church of England's teaching in the Book of Common Prayer on Baptismal Regeneration

Faith Under Trials- It empties the soul of self. This is the proper work of faith, -- to discover the utter emptiness, insufficiency, nothingness that is in man unto any spiritual end or purpose whatever. So Eph. ii. 8, 9. Faith itself is of God, not of ourselves- and it teaches us to be all by grace, and not by any work of ours. If we will be any thing in ourselves, faith tells us then it is nothing to us- for it only fills them that are empty, and makes them all by grace who are nothing by self.

This narration is finished up to the Perseverance of the Saints and Conclusion

A letter from Archibald Alexander To Nathan Strong including a letter from George Baxter on the Kentucky Revival of 1800.