"All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass, JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners."
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Practical Truths (New York: American Tract Society, 1857), p. 385 (Italics and capitals in original).
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Archibald Alexander
Archibald Alexander (April 17, 1772 – October 22, 1851) was an American Presbyterian theologian and professor at the Princeton Theological Seminary. He served for 27 years as that institution's first principal from 1812 to 1840.
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