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Barnes was ordained as a Presbyterian minister by the presbytery of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in , and was the pastor successively of the Presbyterian Church in Morristown, New Jersey — , and of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia — Albert Barnes held a prominent place in the New School branch of the Presbyterians during the Old School-New School Controversy, to which he adhered on the division of the denomination in ; he had been tried but not convicted for heresy in , mostly due to the views he expressed in Notes on Romans of the imputation of the sin of Adam, original sin and the atonement; the bitterness stirred up by this trial contributed towards widening the breach between the conservative and the progressive elements in the church.

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He served as moderator of the General Assembly to the New School branch in He was an eloquent preacher, but his reputation rests chiefly on his expository works, which are said to have had a larger circulation both in Europe and America than any others of their class. Of the well-known Notes on the New Testament, it is said that more than a million volumes had been issued by The popularity of these works rested on how Barnes simplified Biblical criticism so that new developments in the field were made accessible to the general public.

Barnes was the author of several other works, including Scriptural Views of Slavery and The Way of Salvation A collection of his theological works was published in Philadelphia in While serving as pastor at the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Barnes became the President of the Pennsylvania Bible Society located at 7th and Walnut in — a position he served until his death in He served at First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia until He was then granted the title Pastor Emeritus.

Religion will no longer be trampled under foot, but will triumph. In all parts of the earth it will have the ascendency, as if the most eminent saints of past ages lived and reigned with the Son of God in his kingdom. A spiritual kingdom will be set up with the Son of God at the head of it, which will be a kingdom of eminent holiness, as if the saints of the best days of the church should come back to the earth and dwell upon it.

The ruling influence in the world will be the religion of the Son of God, and the principles which have governed the most holy of his people.