The Puritans were mature saints who valued Christian biography because it shows that God's grace in human lives is "more than notion" -- is rather, a potent reality that changes sinners into the likeness of Christ their Savior, and generates zeal, vision, and passion for the advancing of His kingdom. Puritan single-mindedness in seeking God's glory is overwhelmingly awesome, and the records of the Puritans' own lives of endeavor, conflict, and suffering for their Lord are as challenging as any biographies from any age. -- J.I. Packer (1926-2020)
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. -- The Lord Jesus Christ (John 15:12,13)I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him. (Ecclesiastes 3:14)
Whatever we do within the will of God lasts throughout eternity.He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
Death, like a whirlwind, may blow down the tree of the body, but it cannot blast the fruit of our graces. The trees of righteousness carry their fruit with them: their works follow them (Revelation 14:13). -- Thomas Watson (1616-1688)
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. (1 Corinthians 15:58)
You only have one life, it will soon be past. Only what is done for Christ will last. -- C.T. Studd
Make your life count for eternity.
Give up your small ambitions and follow Christ! -- Peter HammondI must say it, to the glory of God, there were in the church of Scotland, both in the time of our first reformation, and after the reformation, such extraordinary men as were more than ordinary pastors and teachers, even holy prophets receiving extraordinary revelations from God, and foretelling diverse strange and remarkable things, which did accordingly come to pass punctually, to the great admiration of all who knew the particulars. Such were Mr. Wishart the martyr, Mr. Knox the reformer, also Mr. John Welsh, Mr. John Davidson, Mr. Robert Bruce, Mr. Alexander Simpson, Mr. Fergusson, and others. -- George Gillespie, Miscellany Questions, Chapter III, section 3.
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age. [Psalm 92:14] Being thus planted and watered, they shall not only bring forth the fruits of righteousness, but shall continue and go on to do so, and even when they are grown old; contrary to all other trees, which, when old, cease bearing fruit; but so do not the righteous; grace is often in the greatest vigor when nature is decayed; witness Abraham, Job, David, Zechariah, and Elisabeth, and good old Simeon, who went to the grave like shocks of corn fully ripe. -- John Gill commenting on Psalm 92:14 in a footnote on Calvin's commentary on Psalm 92:12
Adams, Thomas (1600-1662), Works of Thomas Adams, 3 volumes. Alternate title: POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF THE REV. THOMAS ADAM, LATE RECTOR OF WINTRINGHAM. IN THREE VOLUMES. ... CONTAINING HIS PRIVATE THOUGHTS ON RELIGION, AND SERMONS ON DIFFERENT SUBJECTS. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A SHORT SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"Adams (1600-1662) was considered 'The Shakespeare of the Puritans' for his magnificent and beautiful writing style. His occasionally printed sermons, when collected in 1629, placed him beyond all comparison in the very van of the preachers of England, and had something to do with the shaping of John Bunyan.
"He equals Jeremy Taylor in brilliance of fancies, and Thomas Fuller in wit. Robert Southey calls him 'the prose Shakespeare of Puritan theologians.' His numerous works display great learning, classical and patristic, and are unique in their abundance of stories, anecdotes, aphorisms, and puns." -- The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 edition, notes
"Joel Beeke quoted Adams in his article 'What is Reformed Experimental Preaching' in the following words: 'Christ is the sum of the whole Bible, prophesied, typified, prefigured, exhibited, demonstrated, to be found in every leaf, almost in every line, the Scriptures being but as it were the swaddling bands of the child Jesus'." -- Publisher
Alcock, Deborah, S.S. Pugh, William Garden Blaikie, and Edwin Paxton Hood, Six Heroic men.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, David Livingstone, Richard Baxter, Lord Lawrence, and Claude Brousson.
Alexander, James W., The Life of Archibald Alexander, D.D. [1772-1851], First Professor in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, New Jersey.
The Life of Archibald Alexander, D.D.
https://archive.org/details/lifeofarchibal00alex
*American Family Studios, Logic on Fire: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, DVD.
"This is the official Martyn Lloyd-Jones documentary. When Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) gave a series of lectures on the subject of preaching in 1969, he coined the phrase that became an emblematic description of his own ministry: 'What is preaching?' He asked. 'Logic on fire!' But what exactly does it mean, and how does it manifest? "Logic on Fire: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones" charts the story of this most remarkable man, widely considered to be one of the most influential preachers of the 20th century. Medically trained at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, Lloyd-Jones shocked many when he announced he would leave medicine to become the pastor of a small church in Aberavon, Wales. He was eventually called to Westminster Chapel in central London, where he gained considerable national influence and international renown for his dynamic expository preaching. More than simply a recounting of the man's life, 'Logic on Fire' examines Lloyd-Jones' home life, his spiritual influences, the emphasis he brought to his to pastorates, the way he sought a union of 'logic' and 'fire' in preaching, as well as his continued relevance and influence in conservative evangelicalism today. Featuring interviews with his family, official biographer, and many close friends, as well as international ministers who have been influenced by the Doctor's preaching, 'Logic on Fire' emphasizes not only the need for clarity in preaching, tenderness and pastoring, and carefulness in worship, but also a humble dependence upon God to make the work of the ministry effective." -- Publisher
*Anderson, Courtenay, To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson. Also available as an e-book.
A favorite biography of Ravi Zacharias.
"On February 19, 1812, Ann and Adoniram Judson [a Congregationalist who later became Baptist -- compiler] sailed from Salem aboard the brig Caravan as two of the first missionaries to go out from North America. Watching the shoreline disappear from view, they could not have foreseen the impact of their journey on the future of the Christian world mission or on the thousands of men and women who would follow in their footsteps. After a short stay in India, they carried the Good News of Jesus Christ to the golden shore of Burma. Drawing on letters and church records, Courtney Anderson paints a poignant portrait of Judson's early life in dealing with the conflict between his desire for material success and the inner call to serve God. For Adoniram Judson 'the golden shore' brought bitter hardships, imprisonment, and family tragedy. Yet, he never wavered in his commitment to win people to faith in Christ and to translate the Bible into the Burmese language. This special edition recognizes the 175th anniversary of the Judsons' sailing on their historic voyage and celebrates the early years of Baptist missions overseas." -- Publisher
*Anonymous, The Life and Times of Selina Countess of Huntingdon by a Member of the House of Shirley and Hastings, 2 volumes.
"Accounts of the Great Awakening and its men: Whitefield, Wesley, Howell Harris, etc. Shows the influence of the Countess, a friend of revival and revivalists." -- Lloyd T. Sprinkle
Augustine, Saint (Aurelius Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430 AD), The Confessions of Saint Augustine. A Christian classic. Available (WORKS OF AUGUSTINE), on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Augustine is said to be the greatest Christian thinker next to the Apostle Paul. Luther set the Bible and the CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE above all other books.
"The story of his sinful pursuits before conversion, and of his conversion, then of his confession to God, and his discoveries of the greatness of God after his conversion." -- Publisher
The Confessions of Saint Augustine
http://www.ccel.org/a/augustine/confessions/confessions.html
The Works of Saint Augustine
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Augustine%2C%20Saint%2C%20Bishop%20of%20Hippo
Bacon, Ernest W., Spurgeon: Heir of the Puritans.
"A biographical sketch that pays particular attention to the Puritan tradition out of which Spurgeon came." -- Cyril J. Barber
Baillie, Robert (1599-1662), The Life of William, now Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury, Examined: Wherein his principall actions or deviations in matters of doctrine and discipline (since he came to that sea of Canturbury), are traced.
"Notes: A reissue of the sheets of the 1641 ed. with cancel t.p. Part 2 has separate signatures and paging, special t.p. and imprint: A large supplement of the Canterburian self-conviction, opening to the world yet more of the wicked mysteries of that faction from their own writs. Imprinted, 1641. In pt. 2 'A postscript for the personate Iesuite Lysimachus Nicanor' (37 p. at end), has secondary signatures, separate paging, and caption title, and is an answer to John Corbet's The epistle congratulatorie of Lysimachus Nicanor. First published in 1640 as: Ladensium autokatakrisis, the Canterburians self-conviction. Marginal notes. Reproduction of original in Harvard University Libraries and Thomason Collection, British Library (copy 2)."
Bainton, Roland Herbert, The Church of our Fathers, ISBN: 0880192119 9780880192118.
"A popular presentation of the historic drama, intrigues, rivalry, persecution, suffering, courage, and heroism displayed by Christian leaders from Paul to the establishment of the church in the New World." -- Cyril J. Barber
*Bainton, Roland H., Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther. A Christian classic.
"Available for the first time in trade paperback, this authoritative biography of the great religious leader was hailed by Time magazine as "the most readable Luther biography in English." This edition showcases the intricate woodcuts and engravings that enhance the text and give the flavor of the era in which Martin Luther lived. More than 100 woodcuts and engravings." -- Publisher
A scholarly presentation of Luther's part in the Protestant Reformation which changed the course of Western civilization. Highly recommended, especially for those seeking a deeper understanding of the theology of the Reformation. A scholarly work in which the Gospel is articulately presented. The story of Luther's conversion is, of course, presented in detail. Numerous editions of this book are available. Includes extensive bibliography.
Martin Luther
http://www.covenanter.org/reformed/author/martin-luther
Bainton, Roland H., The Travail of Religious Liberty.
"Biographical studies of Thomas R. Torquemada, John Calvin, Miquel Servetus, Sebastian Castellio, David Joris, Bernardino Ochino, John Milton, Roger Williams, and John Locke. First published in 1951." -- Cyril J. Barber
*Bainton, Roland H., Women of the Reformation in Germany and Italy, ISBN: 0807056510.
"These frequently neglected women were faithful to their commitments and often displayed courage equal to that of the Reformers themselves." -- Cyril J. Barber
Bates, William (1625-1699), and W. Farmer, The Complete Works of William Bates, 4 volumes. Alternate title: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM BATES. Available (THE WORKS OF WILLIAM BATES, FUNERAL SERMONS, SELECTIONS), on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Contains sermons on the Forgiveness of Sins, The Sure Trial of Uprightness, The Duty of Resignation, The Danger of Prosperity, and Spiritual Perfection.
"Bates' writing was among the most practical of the Puritan Divines. . . .
"William Bates was one of the foremost Puritans. He was contemporary with Thomas Manton and Richard Baxter. His works were eagerly studied by Queen Mary, and his preaching always attracted great crowds. He was a spiritual man, whose chief aim in life was to glorify God, and please Him. There is no biography of him other than that by the Rev. W. Farmer in 1815, but his funeral sermon, preached by another great Puritan, John Howe, also reveals much about his character. . . ." -- Publisher
"The act of uniformity passed in the year sixteen hundred and sixty-two, when Dr. Bates was thirty-seven years of age, by which he was deprived of the valuable living of St. Dunstan's in the West. On this trying occasion he displayed heroic firmness of mind in lovely union with that mildness and candour which breathe in his writings. Terms were imposed by this act, with which he could not conscientiously comply, though every thing in his nature strongly disposed to a compliance, and made him deeply lament the circumstances that imposed the absolute necessity of secession from the established church.
"Though he was never cast into prison, which was the lot of numbers of his brethren, he had once a very narrow escape. A Mrs. Beale being near death, several pious persons were solicited to meet in her room and pray for her, Dr. Bates and Mr. Baxter were to be of the number, of which information being given, two justices of peace with the parliament sergeant-at-arms, came at the appointed time to apprehend them and lay them in prison. Providence preserved them, for they did not attend, though ignorant of the design of their persecutors. The justices and sergeant-at-arms rushed into the room, where the gentlewoman lay ready to die, but missing their prey returned greatly disappointed. 'What a joy,' observes Mr. Baxter on this occasion, 'would it have been to them that reproached us as Presbyterian seditious schismatics to have found but such an occasion as praying with a dying woman to have laid us up in prison'!" -- A Biography of William Bates
Baxter, Richard (1615-1691), The Autobiography of Richard Baxter, ISBN: 0874714087 9780874714067.
"Abridged with an introduction and notes by J.M. Lloyd Thomas. A clear, easy-to-read account of the life of one of the great nonconformists of the 17th century, replete with accounts of political and ecclesiastical intrigue and all that militates against the development of piety and the work of the Lord." -- Cyril J. Barber
Baxter, Richard (1615-1691), The Life of Rev. Richard Baxter
http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeofrevrichard00baxtrich/lifeofrevrichard00baxtrich_djvu.txt
Baxter, Richard (1615-1691), and Ely Bates, Biographical Collections: or Lives and Characters, From the Works of the Reverend Mr. Baxter, and Dr. Bates (with various additions interspersed), of the following excellent persons . . . Together with abstracts of their funeral sermons. . . . London, 1766, 2 vols.
*Baxter, Richard (1615-1691), and Sylvester Matthew (1636/7-1708), Reliquiae Baxteriana; or, Mr. Richard Baxter's Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of his Life and Times.
Baxter, Richard (1615-1691), and John T. Wilkinson, Richard Baxter and Margaret Charlton: A Puritan Love Story, Being the Breviate of the Life of Margaret Baxter.
Beck, James R., Dorothy Carey: The Tragic and Untold Story of Mrs. William Carey, ISBN: 0801010306 9780801010309.
"This is the story of Dorothy Carey, wife of William Carey, the first English Baptist missionary to India. Dorothy Carey was a simple, uneducated English women married to the man who became known as the 'Father of Modern Missions.' While William was a linguistic genius and fell on Indian soil like a seed on fertile ground, Dorothy did not fare so well. With two small boys in tow and a babe in arms, Dorothy was physically sick from the time they arrived until she died twelve years later. William flourished, easily learning the language and productively translating Scripture. Dorothy buried her baby, suffered constant dysentery and finally sunk into deep paranoia. Her final years were spent confined to home under constant watch care. Much of the day-to-day happenings are from the journals of William Carey. Those journals, along with letters back to the Mission Committee in England, give the sad story of the wife of the 'Father of Modern Missions.' Dorothy Carey also deserves to be remembered for the sacrifices she made for the cause of Missions, and James Beck has done us a great service in presenting her story." -- Reader's Comment
Belcher, Richard P., Arthur W. Pink, Born to Write: A Biography.
Belcher, Joseph, and George Whitefield, George Whitefield: A Biography.
The Making of America Project, George Whitefield
http://www.archive.org/details/georgewhitefield00belciala
Bentley-Taylor, David, Augustine: Wayward Genius -- The Life of St. Augustine of Hippo, ISBN: 0801008077 9780801008078.
"New book (1980) may make the life of one who affected Christianity more than any man since the Apostle Paul come alive." -- GCB
Beza, Theodore (1519-1605), Contemporary Portraits of Reformers of Religion and Letters. Alternate titles: "ICONES" CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS OF REFORMERS OF RELIGION AND LETTERS.
*Beza, Theodore (1519-1605), The Life of John Calvin. A Christian classic. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"Beza was Calvin's friend, student, and successor at Geneva. As an eye-witness to Calvin's conduct and an intimate friend, this work (of 100 pages), of necessity retains a special quality that other treatments of Calvin's life will lack. Notwithstanding, the best modern treatment of Calvin's views and work is found in Carlos Eire's (a Roman Catholic author), WAR AGAINST THE IDOLS: THE REFORMATION OF WORSHIP FROM ERASMUS TO CALVIN." -- Publisher
Beze, Theodore de (1519-1605), and Francis Sibson (b. 1779), The Life of John Calvin (1836)
http://archive.org/details/lifeofjohncalvin00bz2
Bingham, Rowland V., The Life of Annie Johnson Flint (1866-1932)
An Online Biography of Annie Johnson Flint
http://www.preceptaustin.org/annie_johnson_flint's_biography.htm
Black, David (1762-1806), The Deceitfulness of the Heart. Available in SERMONS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS.
"Black was pastor of Lady Yester's, Edinburgh, Scotland, from 1794 until his death. With regard to his sermon delivery, it was said that 'His manner was solemn and affectionate, earnest and persuasive. When expostulating with sinners, or unfolding to Christians the consolations of the gospel, there was often an animation in his address -- a sacred fervour -- a divine unction, which powerfully impressed the auditory. He evidently felt the truths he was delivering, and spake as one standing in the presence of God, animated with a pure zeal for the glory of the Redeemer, and the salvation of immortal souls.' The following piece is from his SERMONS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS (Edinburgh 1808)."
http://www.westminsterconfession.org/the-doctrines-of-grace/the-deceitfulness-of-the-heart.php
Blaikie, William Garden, David Brown, D.D., LL.D: Professor and Principal of the Free Church Colledge, Aberdeen: A Memoir, 1898. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Blaikie, William Garden, David Livingstone: The Authorised Biography, ISBN: 0948095164 9780948095160 0948095113 9780948095115.
Blaikie, William Garden, The Life of David Livingstone.
Blaikie, William Garden, The Personal Life of David Livingstone, LL.D., D.C.L.: Chiefly From his Unpublished Journals and Correspondence in the Possession of his Family.
*Bonar, Andrew (1810-1892), Andrew Bonar: Diary and Life, ISBN: 0851514324 9780851514321. A Christian classic.
"Covering the years 1810-1892. Bonar was a pastor, teacher, participant in the revivals of 1839 and 1859, faithful witness against the inroad of higher criticism, and writer." -- GCB
"Bonar was an outstanding pastor of the last century. His manner was humble, his expressions Biblical and therefore sweet. This book gives a panoramic view of his life, a fascinating period of Scotland's church history. It is a record of God's work in the life of one of His trophies of grace, one who represented all that was finest in the evangelical circles of his times." -- Jay P. Green, Sr. (1918-2008)
*Bonar, Andrew A. (1810-1892), and Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Memoir and Remains of Robert Murray M'Cheyne, ISBN: 085151085X 9780851510859. A Christian classic.
Spurgeon thought every Christian should read this book.
"Bonar's LIFE OF McCHEYNE (a part of this book), displays the character of this man, and illustrates why he is one of the best-loved and most widely influential men of all time. McCheyne was a sweet, humble, hard-working Christian with a passion for souls. It is a real joy to read his sermons, letters, and other writings in this book. Bonar, himself a great one, has done us all a great favor in preserving these memoirs for us." -- Jay P. Green, Sr. (1918-2008)
Boreham, F.W., Lover of Life: F.W. Boreham's Tribute to His Mentor, ISBN: 9780983287544 0983287546.
"In LOVER OF LIFE the distinguished author Dr. F.W. Boreham draws back the curtain to pay tribute to one of his mentors, Joseph John Doke. This is a tantalizing sketch of a pastor, artist, author, who later in South Africa became a friend and freedom fighter with Mahatma Gandhi in the struggle for the rights of minority races." -- Publisher
Boreham, F.W., The man who Saved Gandhi: A Short Biography of John Joseph Doke.
Boreham, F.W. (Frank), My Pilgrimage: An Autobiography.
*Boston, Thomas (1676-1732), Memoirs of Thomas Boston. A Christian classic.
"Boston was a country preacher in Scotland. His remarkable triumphs over his obscure location and a church he described as 'naturally smart and of an uncommon assurance; self-conceited and censorious to a degree [are related here]. . . ." His works total 12 hefty volumes. His sermons are replete with memorable sayings. . . . His wife was mentally ill, and he himself suffered severe illness from vitamin deficiency. Yet these trials only spurred his deep faith, and accelerated his accomplishments. At the last he was famous, drawing large crowds from far away places. He preached until he could not walk, and then people gathered under his window to hear his last words, he advocating his ruling lifetime passion, the need of self-examination with Biblical guidelines." -- Jay P. Green, Sr. (1918-2008)
Other works by Boston include HUMAN NATURE IN ITS FOURFOLD STATE and his sermons on REPENTANCE along with his book on suffering, THE CROOK IN THE LOT, and his excellent work, THE ART OF MAN-FISHING.
Memoirs of the Life, Times, and Writings, of the Rev. Thomas Boston, of Ettrick (1852)
http://archive.org/details/memoirsofthelife00bostuoft
*Brainerd, David (1718-1747), and Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758, editor), The Life and Diary of David Brainerd, ISBN: 0801009766. A Christian classic.
This journal is said to have inspired more Christians to become missionaries than any other book other than the Bible.
"John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, William Carey, and Henry Martyn having read the journal felt compelled to spend their lives preaching the Gospel." -- Veronica Zundel
Brainerd and Edwards, The life of Rev. David Brainerd: Chiefly Extracted From his Diary
http://archive.org/details/lifeifrevbrainerd00brairich
*Brook, Benjamin, Lives of the Puritans, 3 volumes, ISBN: 1877611794. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"This scarce three volume set was first published in 1813 in London, and there has never been a second printing until now. It contains biography and bibliography of many noted as well as relatively unknown (but not insignificant), Puritan pastors and authors of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Brook's massive endeavor was, at his own admission, an updating of Edmund Calamy's classic NONCONFORMIST MEMORIAL. In volume one there are such men as Edward Deering, Bernard Gilpin, and Richard Greenham. In volume two are sketches of Thomas Gataker, Henry Smith, William Perkins, Richard Rogers, Henry Ainsworth, John Preston, Robert Bolton, William Ames, Henry Scudder, Arthur Dent, Daniel Dyke, Samuel Hieron, Nicholas Byfield, Richard Sibbes, and John Ball. Volume three contains Jeremiah Burroughs, Thomas Hooker, Thomas Shepard, Christopher Love, John Cotton, Obadiah Sedgwick, William Gouge, and Thomas Goodwin. And these are but a sampling of the hundreds of godly men you will find profiled." -- Jay P. Green, Sr. (1918-2008)
*Brown, John, John Bunyan: His Life, Times and Work. A Christian classic.
"The tercentenary edition of the Bedford tinker's life and ministry, preaching and dissent, and travail for religious liberty." -- Cyril J. Barber
Brown, John (of Edinburgh, 1784-1858), John Cairns, M.D. (contributor), Memoir of John Brown, D.D. Senior Minister of the United Presbyterian Congregation, Broughton Place, Edinburgh, and Professor of Exegetical Theology to the United Presbyterian Church, ISBN: 0790593645 9780790593647.
Memoir of John Brown
http://books.google.com/books?id=F3E_AQAACAAJ&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html
Brown, John (of Haddington, 1722-1787), and William Brown, Memoir and Select Remains of the Rev. John Brown, Minister of the Gospel, Haddington. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #7.
*Brown, Peter R.L., Augustine of Hippo: A Biography: A new Edition With an Epilogue, 45th anniversary edition, ISBN: 9780520280410 0520280415.
Be sure to read the new revision (2000) that contains the Epilogue. It adds nearly 100 pages to the original work.
"This classic biography was first published thirty years ago [1967] and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery recently of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine has thrown fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of THE CONFESSIONS, and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in North Africa. Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue [adding nearly 100 pages to the book -- compiler], to his biography (the text of which is unaltered). He also reviews the changes in scholarship about Augustine since the 1960s. A personal, as well as a scholarly, fascination infuse the book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed portrait of the Bishop of Hippo.
"Peter Brown is Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University. [The author was a student at Oxford in 1967. -- compiler]. Brown is the leading English-language authority on St. Augustine. His many books include SOCIETY AND THE HOLY IN LATE ANTIQUITY (1982), BODY AND SOCIETY (1988), POWER AND PERSUASION (1992), AUTHORITY AND THE SACRED (1995), and THE RISE OF WESTERN CHRISTENDOM: TRIUMPH AND DIVERSITY, A.D. 200-1000 (1996)." -- Publisher
"I first read Peter Brown's magnificent AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO: A BIOGRAPHY in 1974, while preparing to write my dissertation on Augustine's sermons on John's Gospel. Like everyone else, I was struck, even stunned, by the sheer brilliance of this detailed 'life and times' of Augustine. Leaving virtually no stone unturned, Brown presented to us a truly great man whose life was bound up with the tumultuous events of the late Roman Empire, and whose career -- especially his writings -- both transformed that world and laid the foundation for Western civilization. [along with Luther, Calvin, Knox, and many others -- compiler]." -- Reader's Comment
"For anyone interested in the development of theology of Christianity, Peter Brown's book on the life of St. Augustine is an absolute 'must read . . .' In introducing the book, he takes pains to lay out the changes -- and the lack of significant ones -- that these documents [newly found letters and sermons of Augustine -- compiler], presented him as a classics historian. He also provides a personal insight, telling the reader that he now realizes how young he was when he wrote such strong words originally. His maturity shines through, first in this comment, and then in the pages that follow." -- Reader's Comment
"This a fascinating biography because of Brown's meticulous, concise scholarship on one of the central figures of Christian theology, as others have mentioned.
"For me, it was also interesting to learn the details of Augustine's long spiritual journey.
"Augustine was a prodigy, gifted with a brilliant, inquisitive mind. He managed to get a fine education, and soon was interacting with various intellectuals of his day, their schools of thought, and their movements.
"Society tends to groom such persons for positions of leadership in education, in government, and in the 'hierarchy' of the church.
"But, for a long time, Augustine relied on his own brilliance to find a Truth that could satisfy him. He gravitated to the Manichaean cult, that relied on extra-biblical revelation, and which aimed to reform Christianity. Then he moved on to philosophy, including the Neo-platonic writings of Plotinus, which seemed to merge philosophy with religion.
"But then an illness forced Augustine to abandon his career plans. This lead promptly to his conversion to the Catholic church of his time, at the age of 33. Eventually he become Bishop of Hippo.
"By the Grace of God, Augustine grew, and grew spiritually, throughout his life. He was constantly searching for the Truth, so that his first writings were completely eclipsed by the historic, doctrinal writings of his mature years. A prolific writer of about 250 books, his early works are insignificant, even negligible, and could never be used to judge his final worth.
"The pattern of the spiritual journey seen in Augustine's life parallels that seen in other men and women who relentlessly continue to seek Truth, absolute and unchanging, and, by the Grace of God, are lead to place their complete reliance on The Triune God's, revelation of Absolute Truth in The Holy Bible.
"The 'Lord works in strange ways.' Augustine attributes his final conversion to the life-long prayers of his mother. It is sobering to see the long, circuitous, spiritual journey of this brilliant, complex man, with the obstacles of brilliance and of ambition. It is sobering to see how God brought him to be 'true to Christ,' and to play a key role in the development of Christian doctrine, making perhaps the greatest contribution since the Apostle Paul." -- Reader's Comment
Brown, John, and Charles Whymper, The Pilgrim Fathers of New England and Their Puritan Successors. Includes bibliography.
"A rare and detailed study of the lives of those once obscure men whose love of Biblical principle and unselfish loyalty to liberty gave birth to American self-government based on the Laws of God." -- Publisher
Bruce, Michael (1559-1631), William Cunningham, and Robert Wodrow, Sermons by the Rev. Robert Bruce, Minister of Edinburgh: Reprinted From the Original Edition of MDXC and MDXCI [1540 and 1541]; With Collections for his Life by the Rev. Robert Wodrow. Now First Printed From the Manuscript in the Library of the University of Glasgow, 1843. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #29.
Bull, Josiah, But now I see: The Life of John Newton, ISBN: 0851517420 9780851517421.
But now I see: The Life of John Newton
http://books.google.com/books?id=yQgBAAAACAAJ&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html
*Bunyan, John (1628-1688), Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. A Christian classic. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"Similar to Augustine's CONFESSIONS. Traces Bunyan's spiritual pilgrimage from his youth, through several crises, to his conversion, and through many trials and difficulties, temptations and sorrows, until he came to rely solely on Christ for his every need. Originally published in 1666." -- Cyril J. Barber
"This is the personal testimony of the famous author of PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, THE HOLY WAR, and 60 other edifying books." -- Jay P. Green, Sr. (1918-2008)
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
http://archive.org/details/graceaboundingt00bunygoog
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, John Bunyan
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Pilgrim's Page: A John Bunyan Archive
This is the complete set of THE WORKS OF JOHN BUNYAN, George Offor edition, reprinted by The Banner of Truth. It is free online, and is downloadable in the following formats: HTML, RTF, TEXT, and PDF.
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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN BUNYAN is also available at Project Gutenberg.
Bunyan, John, John Bunyan: An Autobiography.
Butler, Dugald, The Life and Letters of Robert Leighton . . . Archbishop of Glasgow, 1903.
Butterfield, Rosaria Champagne, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith, ISBN: 9781884527388 1884527388.
"Dr. Butterfield's book detailing the love and compassion of Christ in her life is exceptional in so many ways. The book reminded me of what we as Christians confess together: 'I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life.' I am grateful for this honest and vulnerable testimony to the power of the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of all life as He makes Christ known to His people!
"The book is also a testimony to the truth of Romans 5: 'Where sin abounds, grace superabounds!" There is much revealed in the book about what it means to have Christ's righteousness alone as one's hope before God, to know Christ and the power of His resurrection, His sufferings, and becoming like Jesus in His death, to truly understand the joy of living! (Philippians 3:9-12) Revealed in her book is the dear heart of a Christian that has been transformed by the grace of God, and knows the depths of her sin, and the heights of Christ's grace to all who call upon His name in faith (Romans 5:19-21). There is the affectionate mother who loves her children and seeks to raise them in a manner worthy of her calling in the truth of Jesus. There is the faithful wife who serves and honors husband and family as the church serves Christ (Ephesians 5:21-32). There is the concerned, compassionate, and caring friend who seeks to show the love and grace of Christ to those who don't believe, and who don't understand, and who quite frankly think Christians do better at hating, than loving. There is the learning disciple seeking to wisely know how to be Christ in a fallen and sinful world of misery. There is the confessional Christian who has committed herself to the objective truth of God's Word, who deeply holds these truths faithfully, and seeks the means of grace for Christ's Church that Jesus has graciously given us to grow. I read many parts of this book aloud to my wife in our kitchen while supper was being prepared.
"My wife and I learned a great deal of wisdom, we rejoiced with tears with Dr. Butterfield as we were reading it, and we thanked God for her testimony to the grace of Jesus. May many more read, ponder, and digest this exceedingly wondrous testimony to God's amazing grace. I encourage you also to read the Rev. Dr. Carl Trueman's review at Reformation 21.
"As a pastor of a loving and local congregation of God's people, I recommend this to you. I recommend the wisdom here with hopes that it will make you more compassionate, caring, and hopeful in the incomparably great power for us who believe! (Ephesians 1:19ff). In Christ's love, Pastor CRB." -- Reader's Comment
Kindle edition and reviews (68 five star reviews)
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Thoughts-Unlikely-Convert-ebook/dp/B0097G05F8/ref=sr_1_2
Cadier, Jean, and O.R. Johnston (translator), The man God Mastered: A Brief Biography of John Calvin.
"A brilliant translation of an important biography of John Calvin." -- Cyril J. Barber
Cairns, John (1818-1892), Brown, John (of Edinburgh, 1784-1858), Memoir of John Brown, D.D. Senior Minister of the United Presbyterian Congregation, Broughton Place, Edinburgh, and Professor of Exegetical Theology to the United Presbyterian Church, ISBN: 0790593645 9780790593647.
Memoir of John Brown
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Calamy, Edmund (1671-1732), An Abridgement of Mr. Baxter's History of his Life and Times. With an Account of the Ministers, &c. who Were Ejected After the Restauration, of King Charles II . . . and the Continuation of Their History, to the Passing of the bill Against Occasional Conformity, in 1711, 2 volumes.
Calamy, Edmund (1671-1732), The Autobiography of Richard Baxter, ISBN: 0874714087 9780874714067.
"Abridged with an introduction and notes by J.M. Lloyd Thomas. A clear, easy-to-read account of the life of one of the great nonconformists of the 17th century, replete with accounts of political and ecclesiastical intrigue and all that militates against the development of piety and the work of the Lord." -- Cyril J. Barber
Calamy, Edmund (1671-1732), A Defence of Moderate Non-conformity. In Answer to the Reflections of Mr. Ollyffe and Mr. Hoadly, on the Tenth Chapter of the Abridgment of the Life of the Reverend Mr. Rich. Baxter.
*Calamy, Edmund (1678-1732), and Samuel Palmer (d. 1724, editor), The Nonconformist's Memorial, 3 volumes, ISBN: 0781206243. This seems to be the preferred edition. E-text available OCLC: 220202826. A Christian classic. See also: Benjamin Brook, LIVES OF THE PURITANS.
"Edmund Calamy (1678-1732), a dissenting minister in London and a historian, was the son and grandson of puritan ministers inside the Church of England. Both of them, along with hundreds of others, were expelled from their church livings for their refusal to submit to the 1662 Act of Uniformity. This event, the so-called 'Great Ejection', was a crucial moment in the formation of religious dissent in England. This book, first published in 1775, is an extensively-revised version, by another dissenting minister Samuel Palmer, of materials originally collated and published by Edmund Calamy, commemorating the lives and works of these ejected ministers.
"Editing the autobiography of one of the most eminent of these ejected ministers, Richard Baxter, Calamy included a long chapter listing the ejected ministers and such biographical data as he could find. This is the famous chapter 9 of AN ABRIDGMENT OF MR. BAXTER'S HISTORY OF HIS LIFE AND TIMES (1702). This chapter became a whole volume of a second edition of the ABRIDGEMENT published in 1713. And in 1727 Calamy produced a further two volumes of material under the title A CONTINUATION OF THE ACCOUNT OF THE MINISTERS, LECTURERS, MASTERS AND FELLOWS OF COLLEGES, AND SCHOOLMASTERS WHO WERE EJECTED AND SILENCED AFTER THE RESTORATION OF 1660 . . .
"Samuel Palmer attempted to integrate this material into a more readable form, making extensive revisions and additions. He certainly succeeded in producing something more accessible to eighteenth-century readers and there were several reprints of the book and a second edition in 1802-3. However readability was sometimes at the cost of accuracy and of a reduction of the scholarly value of Calamy's material.
"Nevertheless THE NONCONFORMIST'S MEMORIAL was an important work of collective memory by eighteenth-century dissenters." -- Publisher
Calamy, The Nonconformist's Memorial: Being an Account of the Ministers, who Were Ejected or Silenced . . . (1775), volume 1 of 2
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Calamy, Edmund (1671-1732), The Nonconformist's Memorial: Being an Account of the Ministers, who Were Ejected or Silenced . . . (1775), volume 2 of 2
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The Nonconformist's Memorial: Being an Account of the Lives, Sufferings, and Printed Works, of the Two Thousand Ministers Ejected from the Church of England, Chiefly by the Act of Uniformity, Aug. 24, 1666. . . .
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*Calvin, John (1509-1564), Letters of John Calvin, 2 volumes, ISBN: 9780548138700 0548138702. Available [CALVIN'S SELECTED WORKS, TRACTS AND LETTERS, 7 volumes], on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Chapman, William, Notable Women of the Puritan Times.
Chapman, William, Notable Women of the Reformation, ISBN: 9781104441555 1104441551.
Chappell, Jennie, Susannah Spurgeon (d. 1903), Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-1879), Pundita Ramabai Sarasvati (1858-1922), and Emma Moss Booth-Tucker (1860-1903), Women who Have Worked and won: The Life-story of Mrs. Spurgeon, Mrs. Booth-Tucker, F.R. Havergal, and Pundita Ramabai Sarasvati
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Clark, Gordon H. (1902-1985), John W. Robbins (editor), Gordon H. Clark: Personal Recollections, ISBN: 0940931273 9780940931275.
"Friends of Dr. Clark have written their recollections of the man. Contributors include family members, colleagues, students, and friends such as Harold Lindsell, Carl Henry, Ronald Nash, Dwight Zeller, and Mary Crumpacker. The book includes an extensive bibliography of Clark's works." -- Publisher
Coalter, Milton J., Gilbert Tennent, Son of Thunder: A Case Study of Continental Pietism's Impact on the First Great Awakening in the Middle Colonies, ISBN: 0313255148 9780313255144.
*Coit, Margaret L. (1919-2003), John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, ISBN: 0877971854 9780877971856.
"This heavily documented 593-page biography is a fascinating glimpse into secular American life in the times of John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), including southern plantation life, and the intricacies of political diplomacy in Washington, D.C.
"For any reader who has been immersed in the Reformed Presbyterian Church History of this period, this biography offers a fresh and rewarding diversion into the parallel secular and political history.
"There is a lot to learn here. Human nature was the same in Calhoun's day as it is today. The selfishness of men in power was creating a serious imbalance in the economy. Calhoun understood this, and he fought heroically for political solutions to prevent a split in the union (Ecclesiastes 1:9,10). It informs about much of what was going on in the South prior to 'The War Between the States: The War of Northern Aggression, The War for Southern Independence,' information that revisionist historians often leave out of textbooks.
"The book has been criticized as a weak analysis of Calhoun as a political theorist, but this is probably an unfair criticism. Much is discussed about Calhoun's political position. The politician or the scholar of political science should read John C. Calhoun, et al., A DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT AND A DISCOURSE ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, PAPERS, 28. Both his works and his correspondence also have been published.
"The biography does discuss the various causes of the split in the union: the decline of the federal character of our government with the resulting dominance of Northern industrial majority over the minority interests of the South, tariff regulations favoring the North, economic exploitation of the South, unbalanced growth, states rights, slavery, and so forth, and so on.
"The issue of Southern slavery is not as 'cut and dried' as abolitionists and the Northern sympathizers would have the public believe. For example, the similarities between Southern slavery and the 'wage slavery' of Northern industrialists is mentioned." -- Reader's Comment
The question of slavery has perplexed this writer for years. This biography, and the lecture, "Biblical Slavery: Its Meaning and Necessity," have helped clear up questions about the position of pro-unreconstructed Southern Evangelicals, the apparent "paradox" of the social benefits of Biblical slavery, conflicting motives for the Civil War, Robert L. Dabney's (1820-1898) "unbelievable blind spot" in the midst of excellent theology, and Dabney being branded a "racist."
Calhoun is said to be one of the most able statesmen and politicians ever to serve in Washington. This work by Margaret Coit received the Pulitzer Prize in biography in 1951. It accounts for why Calhoun is held in such high esteem in the South, even today. He has been praised as a politician by C. Gregg Singer, the church historian.
There is scant mention of Calhoun's religious convictions, and their influence on his politics. See: A THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF AMERICAN HISTORY.
"The former Vice-President [under John Quincy Adams and the first term of Andrew Jackson -- compiler], was able to become the spokesman of the minority within that era. In doing so, he offered a vigorous justification of why the majority should be limited in what they can do to the minority. His explanation is as sound today for any minority as it was for defending the South in his time." -- Reader's Comment
"His influence during four decades of national life cannot be denied, which is one of the reasons why scholars to this day argue over whether there are two distinct periods to Calhoun's career: his earlier years when he seemed more inclined to support national-oriented legislation, and his later years when he appears as an early 'states rights' man.
"Coit, who clearly admires him and is determined to unearth the person behind the stony legend, argues that Calhoun's devotion to nation and state were as one, and that in his view only through a determined affirmation of the rights of the states could the larger national confederation succeed. . . ." -- Reader's Comment
"Coit hints at a distant personal connection to John C. Calhoun on page 306, saying the Reverend John C. Coit, a Presbyterian clergyman, was a friend of Calhoun's.
"Coit has a very vivid style and sometimes she comes dangerously close to crossing the line into writing fiction (such as when she enters the mind of a dying Calhoun and offers a series of flashback sketches)." -- Reader's Comment
Cooke, Dennis, Persecuting Zeal: A Portrait of Ian Paisley, ISBN: 0863222226 9780863222221.
Cottret, Bernard, and M. Wallace McDonald (translator), Calvin: A Biography, ISBN: 0802842895 9780802842893 0567087573 9780567087577.
"The aim of this book is simply to recover the truth, or rather to reclaim the intelligibility, of a man in his time. This is a historian's Calvin, the work of a university professor who is neither a theologian nor an ordained minister. Cottret's welcome approach sheds new light on the great Reformer's personality by concentrating on the milieu in which Calvin did his life's work.
"In the largest part of the book, Cottret explores Calvin's life chronologically. We are introduced to the world into which Calvin was born, a Europe in the throes of upheaval owing to the development of the printing press and divergent religious views. We follow Calvin from his birth and childhood in Noyon to his school years in Paris. We accompany Calvin on his humanistic and literary pursuits in Basel, his early ministry in Geneva, and his halcyon Strasbourg years. Finally, we move again to Geneva, where the brunt of Calvin's serious -- and better known -- life was lived.
"Along the way we encounter the major issues of Calvin's day -- the sacrifice of the Mass, iconoclasm, predestination, the Arianism of Michael Servetus -- issues to which he reacted with all his religious emotion. We tarry with him in Geneva and get an up-close look at the governance of Calvinism's 'holy city.' Further, we share in Calvin's joys and sorrow through a reading of his prolific correspondence. In the final chapters, Cottret explores thematic aspects of Calvin's persona -- Calvin the polemicist, the preacher, and the writer -- and looks in greater depth at his foremost work, THE INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION." -- Publisher
Couper, William James, Robert Sanders the Elder, Printer in Glasgow, 1661-1694. With a bibliography.
Couper, William James, and The Scottish Church History Society, Robert Wodrow.
Cowan, Henry, John Knox: Hero of the Scottish Reformation, ISBN: 0404017886 9780404017880.
Crosby, Fanny, An Autobiography, ISBN: 1579102077 9781579102074.
Crown Video, Final Solution, Special Edition DVD (Crown Video, November 25, 2008), ISBN: 1894300874 9781894300872, 106 Minutes.
"Based on a true story . . .
"This Special Edition set contains the award winning feature film Final Solution, the documentary From one Blood featuring Gerrit Wolfaardt, the man on which the feature film is based, behind the scenes footage, bonus features and a study guide in PDF form. Final Solution is an amazing testimony of the incredible power of God to transform lives. Gerrit Wolfaardt was radically changed from a life of hatred and violence -- not to simply tolerance -- but to genuine love. Only God can cause so deep a transformation.
From One Blood invites viewers into the living room and lives of Gerrit and Celeste Wolfaardt. Gerrit relays his personal story and throughout the documentary, short clips from the movie are cut in to emphasize what he is telling us. Today, Gerrit travels the globe preaching biblical reconciliation. Formerly sold individually, this two-disc DVD set provides an excellent value.
"Awards that this film has received: | Crown Award Winner for Best Drama Over $250,000 (Gold) | Crown Award Winner for Best Picture (Gold) | Heartland Film Festival Winner (Crystal Heart Award) | Worldfest Houston International Film Festival Winner (GOLD) | Down Under Film Festival Winner (Best Soundtrack and Best Film) | Sabaoth International Film Festival (Best Director and Best Film).
"This film is not appropriate for children due to violence and thematic elements.
"Afrikaner Gerrit Wolfaardt was born into prejudice. Everything he had been taught since childhood -- from his family, his church and his culture -- told him that apartheid, or separateness, was right and natural. He became a self-proclaimed disciple of Hitler, and hatched a diabolical plan to rid South Africa of the 'Black Danger.' His ideology was challenged by Celeste, who later became his wife, and by the book CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY. In this documentary, Gerrit shares the amazing journey that resulted in his radical transformation." -- Publisher
*Cunningham, William (1805-1861), John Calvin. Available in THE REFORMERS AND THE THEOLOGY OF THE REFORMATION. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #17.
"As Cunningham states, 'John Calvin was by far the greatest of the Reformers with respect to the talents he possessed, the influence he exerted, and the services he rendered in the establishment and diffusion of important truth.' Here we have a succinct account of Calvin's works and the leading principles that he maintained. Calvin is without a doubt one of the great men in all of human history, and as he often pointed out, he owed everything to the Lord Jesus Christ -- all his talents, all his influence, his very salvation, etc. -- for that is the nature of 'Calvinism,' giving God all the glory!" -- Publisher
Cunningham, William (1805-1861), and John Adams, A Letter to a Great Character.
An open letter to John Adams.
Cunningham, William (1805-1861), James Buchanan, and James Bannerman, Leaders of the Reformation. Available in THE WORKS OF WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM. Available in THE REFORMERS AND THE THEOLOGY OF THE REFORMATION. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #17.
Cunningham, William, James Buchanan (preface), and James Bannerman (preface), The Reformers and the Theology of the Reformation.
D'Aubigné, J.H. Merle (1794-1872), Germany, England, and Scotland; or, Recollections of a Swiss Minister.
D'Aubigné, J.H. Merle (1794-1872), The Life and Times of Martin Luther: Selections From D'Aubigné's Famed History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century.
"The best book on Luther and his part in the Reformation." -- Jay P. Green, Sr. (1918-2008)
Dabney, Robert L. (1820-1898), Biographical Sketch of R.L. Dabney. Alternate title: LIFE: ABRIDGED FROM THE LARGER WORK OF PROF. DABNEY. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"B.B. Warfield called Dabney, 'the most conspicuous figure and the leading theological guide of the Southern Presbyterian Church, the most prolific theological writer that Church has as yet produced, and for a period of over forty years one of the most distinguished and probably the most impressive teacher of its candidates for the ministry.' An old school Presbyterian, Dabney served as chief of staff to General 'Stonewall' Jackson. Heavily influenced by Francis Turretin and John Dick, he was born in 1820 and died in 1898." -- Publisher
Dabney, Robert Lewis (1820-1898), and William Chalmers, Life of Lieut. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson), 2 volumes (OCoLC)663123972.
Life of Lieut. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson), 1864
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*Dallimore, Arnold, George Whitefield: The Life and Times of the Great Evangelist of the 18th Century Revival, 2 volumes, ISBN: 0851510264 9780851510262 085151300X 9780851513003. A Christian classic.
"One of the great monumental literary achievements of the 20th century." -- Sherwood E. Wirt
"Justice has at last been done to the greatest preacher that England has ever produced." -- D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Contains accounts of the conversion experiences of Whitefield, the Wesleys, and many others. Includes bibliographic footnotes.
Dallimore, Arnold A., Spurgeon: A New Biography, ISBN: 0851514510 9780851514512.
"A concise (239 pages) popular introduction that presents something of the inner man in his praying, sufferings, depressions, weaknesses, strengths, triumphs, humor, and joys." -- GCB
*Darling, James (1797-1862), Cyclopaedia Bibliographica: A Library Manual of Theological and General Literature, and Guide to Books for Authors, Preachers, Students, and Literary Men. Analytical, Bibliographical, and Biographical, 1854, 5245 pages. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #12.
"An indispensable set for authors, researchers, serious students of Scripture, librarians, ministers, collectors, rare book dealers, etc. Contains much information that is either unavailable elsewhere or would have to be gleaned from several scattered volumes. Its ten volumes total 5245 pages. A phenomenal, theological, bibliographical resource of staggering comprehensiveness. The first section of this extremely rare set is a huge bibliography, organized by authors alphabetically. Most known Biblical and theological publications, to the author's day, are listed. Includes not only English listings, but Latin, French, and German also. The second part is a topical bibliography categorizing items under the headings of Universal Knowledge, Theology (including the major commentaries, sermons, articles and studies for just about every verse in the Bible), a listing of Scripture texts (Hebrew, Greek, and Latin), and an extensive index. The Morning Post calls this massive work 'the most copious, accurate, and well-arranged catalogue of works in theological and general literature which has as yet been published.' Brownson's Review noted that 'for practical utility we know of none that surpasses or approaches it.' Finally Bell's Messenger states, 'No clergyman or antiquarian should think it needless to possess a copy of this work. It will smooth many a day's hard toil, by diminishing the labour of research, pointing as it does, in an instant to works which it might have taken weeks, if not months, or years, to search after.' Don't miss this darling of a help, which will ease and aid all your theological studies!" -- Publisher
Cyclopaedia Bibliographica, full view
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Dawson, Jane E.A., The Early Career of Christopher Goodman and his Place in the Development of English Protestant Thought, a thesis, 1978.
Deshazer (De Shazer), Jacob, and Don R. Falkenberg, I was a Prisoner of Japan.
"In 1948, as Fuchida [Mitsuo Fuchida (1902-1976) is best known for leading the devastating air attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941] was passing by the bronze statue of Hachiko at the Shibuya station, he was handed a pamphlet about the life of Jacob De Shazer, a member of the Doolittle Raid, who was captured when his B-25 bomber ran out of fuel in occupied China.
"In the pamphlet, 'I was a Prisoner of Japan,' De Shazer, a former US Army Air Force staff sergeant and bombardier, related his testimony of imprisonment, torture, and awakening to God.
"Fuchida read the tract on the spot and on the train he saw an advertisement for a book with the same title. When he disembarked, he headed for a book store and purchased it. De Shazer's story engrossed Fuchida. Determined to understand what had motivated De Shazer, Fuchida bought a Bible from a Japanese man on the street.
" 'I met Jesus. Looking back I can see now that the Lord had laid His hand upon me so that I might serve Him'." -- Frontline Fellowship
Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731), and William Lee, Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings, Extending From 1716 to 1729, ISBN: 1241128871 9781241128876.
Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings
http://books.google.com/books?id=u3sOAAAAMAAJ&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html
*Dickson, David (1583-1663), and Robert Wodrow (1679-1734), Truth's Victory Over Error: A Commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith. To This Edition is Prefixed, a Short Account of the Author's Life, by the Late Mr. Robert Wodrow, ISBN: 0851519490 9780851519494. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"One of the best commentaries on the Westminster Confession of Faith." -- Publisher
Truth's Victory Over Error
http://www.truecovenanter.com/dickson/truthsvictory.html
Truth's Victory Over Error, or, the True Principles of the Christian Religion, Stated and Vindicated Against the Following Heresies, viz. Arians . . . Vaninians, &c. The whole being a commentary on all the chapters of the Confession of Faith, by way of question and answer: in which, the saving truths of our holy religion are confirmed and established; and the dangerous errors and opinions of its adversaries detected and confuted. (1764)
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Dickson, Norine Campbell, Patrick Henry: Patriot and Statesman.
"Excellent portrayal of an often misunderstood Founding Father."
Discovery House, The Life of George Washington Carver, DVD (Discovery House, January 1, 2005), 30 minutes.
"A slave-born man who helped shape 20th century America with his passion for God's creation. You probably remember that George Washington Carver invented over 300 uses for peanut butter. Did you know that while at Tuskegee Institute he became one of the world's foremost experts in horticulture?
"In fact, George Washington Carver almost single-handedly reinvented land management in the South following the ravages of too much cotton and tobacco farming. He was so brilliant that Henry Ford and Thomas Edison tried to hire him, but he said no. Do you know why?
"Because he wasn't after fame or fortune. The most important thing in George Washington Carver's life was that he was a Christian. He simply marveled at God's creation and wanted to help all mankind.
"When you get this 2-part DVD -- hosted by Wintley Phipps -- you'll discover someone who grew up 'colored' in segregated America with poverty, frailty, sickness, and the KKK, but who saw each and every obstacle as a blessing and an opportunity to learn.
"Get to know the man who discovered uses for the peanut, the sweet potato, and the soybean and helped shape twentieth-century America through his profound spiritual conviction, a passion for exploration, and a deep wonder about the world around him. You'll find that one person can make a difference, no matter what stands in the way." -- Publisher
Dodd, Elizabeth D., Marriage to a Difficult Man: The 'Uncommon Union' of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards, ISBN: 0664209009 9780664209001.
About Sarah Perrepont's marriage to Jonathan Edwards and the raising of their 11 children.
Drummond, Lewis A., The Evangelist: The Worldwide Impact of Billy Graham, ISBN: 0849916208 9780849916205.
"He is one of the best-known people in the world -- and one of the most respected. Year after Year, polls rank him among the top ten most admired men. He has advised presidents, dined with heads of state, and made global headlines." -- Publisher
Lewis Drummond is the Billy Graham Professor of Evangelism and Church Growth at Beeson Divinity School.
Drummond, Lewis A., Spurgeon: Prince of Preachers, ISBN: 0825424720 9780825424724 0825424739 9780825424731.
"The definitive biography of Spurgeon, 895 pages. . . ." -- GCB
Includes bibliography and footnotes.
Dyer, Thomas Henry, The Life of John Calvin.
Eckerd, Jack, and Paul Con, Eckerd: Finding the Right Prescription, ISBN: 0800715322 9780800715328.
Jack Eckerd is "a living demonstration of the life-changing power of Christ. His inspiring testimony deserves the widest possible audience." -- Billy Graham
"This is the amazing, exciting story of one of the most remarkable men I've ever known. It is a gripping account; when you're finished, you will want to sing the doxology." -- Chuck Colson
*Edman, V. Raymond, They Found the Secret: Twenty Transformed Lives That Reveal a Touch of Eternity.
"Contents: J. Hudson Taylor: the exchanged life | Samuel Logan Brengle: the cleansed life | John Bunyan: the unchained life | Amy Carmichael: the radiant life | Oswald Chambers: the highest life | Charles Grandison Finney: the powerful life | Adoniram Judson Gordon: the disciplined life | Richard C. Halverson: the burning life | Frances Ridley Havergal: the overflowing life | John Hyde: the prevailing life | Dwight Lyman Moody: the dynamic life | Handley | C.G. Moule: the fragrant life | Andrew Murray: the abiding life | Robert E. Nicholas: the satisfying life | William P. Nicholson: the soul-winning life | Eugenia Price: the buoyant life | Charles G. Trumbull: the victorious life | Walter L. Wilson: the yielded life | John Allan Wood: the holy life | W. Ian Thomas: the adventurous life."
Includes bibliography.
Edwards, Brian H., God's Outlaw: The Story of William Tyndale and the English Bible. Alternate title: WILLIAM TYNDALE, THE FATHER OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE and WILLIAM TYNEDALE: ENGLAND'S GREAT BIBLE TRANSLATOR, ISBN: 0842382186 9780842382182.
"This is the thrilling story of one who was forced to leave England and slip from city to city in Germany, Holland, and Belgium in an attempt to avoid the agents sent to arrest him. Tyndale's story is one of poverty, danger, and ceaseless labor, but he left a priceless heritage: The Scriptures in the English language." -- GCB
Vision Video, Roger Rees, Ben Steed, and Tony Tew, God's Outlaw: The Story of William Tyndale, DVD.
Edwards, Brian, Through Many Dangers: The Story of John Newton, ISBN: 0852344902 9780852344903.
*Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758), The Life of David Brainerd, ISBN: 0300030045 9780300030044. Available (THE WORKS OF JONATHAN EDWARDS), on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758), and Sereno Edwards Dwight (1786-1850), The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of his Life, 1829, volume 1 of 9. Available THE WORKS OF JONATHAN EDWARDS in two volumes on the Puritan Hard Drive.
The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of his Life, 1829, volume 1 of 9.
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Ellul, Jacques (1912-1994), W.H. Vanderburg (editor), J. Neugroschell (translator), Perspectives on our Age: Jacques Ellul Speaks on his Life and Work, ISBN: 9780887848735 0887848737.
"Born in Bordeaux, and now a professor in the university in that city, Ellul narrates his intellectual and spiritual odyssey. Explains the inner tensions between Marx and Barth, the effects of the technological system, and his life as an author." -- Cyril J. Barber
Fenn, George Manville, George Alfred Henty: The Story of an Active Life (1907)
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Fiore, Jordan D. (annotation), William Bradford, and Edward Winslow, Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims of Plymouth, ISBN: 0942516079 9780942516074.
"Original record of the Pilgrim fathers written in 1622. Authentic portraits of the 'Saints' and a day-to-day account of the land and living on 'those foreboding shores'." The late Dr. Jordan Fiore was a preeminent authority on the Pilgrims.
*Foote, William Henry (1794-1869), Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical, 1850, 1st series, ISBN: 0524062463 9780524062463.
*Foote, William Henry (1794-1869), Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical, 2nd series, ISBN: 9781594421556 1594421552.
"This volume contains much valuable information regarding early Presbyterian families in the State, biographical sketches of early Presbyterian ministers, and the founding of a number of churches and educational institutions in the State. It also includes a detailed treatment of the Presbyterian efforts toward a separation of church and state in the newly formed State of Virginia. The author, Dr. Foote, was a man of clear and strong convictions. His views of divine truth were early formed. The doctrines of Grace announced in the trial sermon before Presbytery, were repeated fifty years afterwards from the same text (Eph. 2:8 [Ephesians 2:8]), as his last sermon. As a missionary and pastor he was never deterred by difficulties or dangers from the discharge of duty. As a scholar, he was accurate and well informed; as a writer, easy and copious, delighting in the use of his pen. Dr. Morton Smith, Professor of Theology at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary has written an introduction for the new reprint. A rather exhaustive index has also been appended and will be helpful to the average reader and researcher." -- Publisher
Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical
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Sketches of Virginia, historical and biographical. By the Rev. William Henry Foote . . . Second Series.
Full text, free online.
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Fountain, David, John Wycliffe: The Dawn of the Reformation, ISBN: 0907821022 9780907821021.
"There are those who believe that when Wycliffe was born about 660 years ago, he became the one man who changed the course of English history more than any other man." -- GCB
Includes bibliography.
*Foxe, John (1516-1587), and Thomas Freeman (prefatory material), John Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable (unabridged). Alternate title: THE UNABRIDGED ACTS AND MONUMENTS ONLINE or TAMO (HRI Online Publications, Sheffield, 2011). Available from: http://www.johnfoxe.org. Implemented by the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, England, and published by HRI Online Publications, Sheffield, 2011, Version 2.0, ISBN: 9780954260864.
"You can browse and compare the unabridged texts of the four editions of this massive work published in John Foxe's lifetime (1563, 1570, 1576, 1583). Each edition changed significantly as Foxe sought to incorporate new material, answer his critics, and adjust its polemical force to the needs of the moment. . . .
"TAMO is both an instrument of scholarship and a tool for anyone who wants to explore this remarkable work, a milestone in the history of the English printed book and a signal achievement of its printer, John Day."
John Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, ISBN: 0197262252 9780197262252.
"This CD-ROM combines readable and printable images of 2,200 pages of text and woodcut engravings from the 1583 edition, the last for which Foxe was personally responsible."
Other editions: Acts and Monuments or Foxe's Book of Martyrs, 8 volumes. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
" 'No book ever inflicted a wound so deep and incurable on the Romish system of superstition and bloody persecution . . . it was placed in . . . all churches and chapels throughout the kingdom, by order of Queen Elizabeth.' (Smith, Select Memoirs, p. 245). Contains much information not found in any of the liberally edited and severely shortened editions of this classic work which are in print today. Covering martyrs from the early church through to Foxe's day, it was one of the most influential books of the sixteenth century! It overflows with faith building testimony of the power of God to overcome the most cruel and barbarous acts of human depravity and demonic cruelty. 6890 pages. A very rare set, now back in print after 150 years!" -- Publisher
"After the Bible itself, no book so profoundly influenced early Protestant sentiment as the BOOK OF MARTYRS. Even in our time it is still a living force. It is more than a record of persecution. It is an arsenal of controversy, a storehouse of romance, as well as a source of edification." -- James Miller Dodds, English Prose
"When one recollects that until the appearance of the PILGRIM'S PROGRESS the common people had almost no other reading matter except the BIBLE and FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRS, we can understand the deep impression that this book produced; and how it served to mold the national character. Those who could read for themselves learned the full details of all the atrocities performed on the Protestant reformers; the illiterate could see the rude illustrations of the various instruments of torture, the rack, the gridiron, the boiling oil, and then the holy ones breathing out their souls amid the flames. Take a people just awakening to a new intellectual and religious life; let several generations of them, from childhood to old age, pore over such a book, and its stories become traditions as individual and almost as potent as songs and customs on a nation's life." -- Douglas Campbell, The Puritan in Holland, England, and America
"If we divest the book of its accidental character of feud between churches, it yet stands, in the first years of Elizabeth's reign, a monument that marks the growing strength of a desire for spiritual freedom, defiance of those forms that seek to stifle conscience and fetter thought." -- Henry Morley, English Writers
"John Foxe was a prince among believers. He had his printing press on a cart, and had often to print at night, moving his press before dawn to escape capture and burning at the stake. He never faltered in his purpose to leave a voluminous written witness to the power of the Lord Jesus Christ to keep His saints in love and peace." -- Jay P. Green, Sr. (1918-2008)
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), John Foxe's Book of Martyrs Variorum Edition Online
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Freeman, Bill (editor), How They Found Christ: In Their own Words, ISBN: 0914271946 9780914271949.
"Contents: Aurelius Augustine | Martin Luther | John Calvin | John Bunyan | Madame Guyon | John Wesley | Jonathan Edwards | George Whitefield | Charles Finney | George Muller | Andrew Murray | Hannah Whitall Smith | J. Hudson Taylor | Charles Spurgeon | A.B. Simpson | Watchman Nee | The Assurance that you have found Christ."
Fuchida, Mitsuo, and Florence DeShazer, From Pearl Harbor to Calvary, ISBN: 9781618430106 1618430106.
"True story of the lead pilot of the Pearl Harbor attack and his conversion to Christianity." -- Publisher
Gamble, Richard C., The Biography of Calvin, ISBN: 0815310420 9780815310426.
Gardiner, John Eliot, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, ISBN: 9780375415296 0375415297.
"An unprecedented book about one of the greatest of all composers, by his greatest modern interpreter. Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most famously unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque -- and occasionally so intemperate? John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents' house, where it hung for safety during the Second World War. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer's greatest living interpreters. The fruits of this lifetime's immersion are now distilled in this remarkable book, which explains in wonderful detail how Bach worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects -- and what it can tell us about Bach the man. It is grounded in all the most recent Bach scholarship but moves far beyond it, and takes us as deeply into Bach's works and mind as perhaps words can. This is a unique book about one of the greatest of all creative artists." -- Publisher
Gill, John (1697-1771), A Brief Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late Rev. John Gill, D.D. (1838)
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Gill, John (1697-1771), and Michael A.G. Haykin, The Life and Thought of John Gill (1697-1771): A Tercentennial Appreciation, ISBN: 9004107444 9789004107441.
Graham, Ruth Bell (1920-2007), Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Celebrating Ruth Bell Graham: A Life Marked by the Faithfulness of God, DVD, ISBN: 9781593281700 1593281706.
Grant, George, The Last Crusader: The Untold Story of Christopher Columbus, ISBN: 0891076905 9780891076902.
"This carefully researched and enlightening study shows that Columbus was not only a man of God, but that his voyage was largely motivated by godly zeal. Written in narrative to appeal to the heroic heart of all generations, it is designed to rekindle our natural wonder even as it recaptures the true meaning of Columbus." -- GCB
Gough, Henry (compiler) A General Index to the Publications of the Parker Society (1855), 811 pages. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"An extensive general index to the works of the leading English Reformers of the sixteenth century, as they were published by the Parker Society. Some of these volumes have once again been republished in our day by Still Waters Revival Books. Works indexed here are mainly of a theological nature, but also 'include a considerable amount of historical and biographical information; they may also prove serviceable to the topographer and the antiquary; certainly they are not likely to be overlooked by any who may hereafter direct their attention to English lexicography'." -- Publisher
*Haldane, Alexander, Lives of James and Robert Haldane, ISBN: 0851515673 9780851515670.
Haldane, Alexander (1800-1882), Memoirs of the Lives of Robert Haldane of Airthrey, and of his Brother, James Alexander Haldane (1853)
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*Hall, David W., and David J. Vaughan, A Heart Promptly Offered: The Revolutionary Leadership of John Calvin, ISBN: 9781581825053 1581825056.
"Few today realize the extent to which John Calvin, the great Genevan reformer, and his work have shaped modern culture. Few know that it was John Calvin who pioneered the effort to decentralize government by calling for checks and balances against the rule of the few or the king. Equally unknown are his efforts to establish a productive social safety net for immigrants, create educational models that were far ahead of his time, and instill a sense of self-worth in all citizens (regardless of their occupations or class). He was also known for his support of free markets, the rise of private enterprise, and the advancement of publishing and knowledge beyond its medieval confines. The result of his efforts was an explosion of culture and liberty, a story that often is lost or ignored in the rush to offer criticism of the man. A HEART PROMPTLY OFFERED presents the basic story of Calvin's life, along with numerous excerpts from his own pen -- writings from his letters, commentaries, and sermons. In addition to summarizing the main topics of CALVIN'S INSTITUTES, it lays out his ground-breaking political theory." -- Publisher
*Hammond, Peter, The Greatest Century of Missions, ISBN: 9780987016560 0987016563.
"Only one life, it will soon be past. Only what is done for Christ will last!" -- C.T. Studd
"Expect great things from God! Attempt great things for God!" -- William Carey
"As missionaries circled the globe, penetrated the jungles and crossed the seas, they preached a singular message: light out of darkness, liberty out of tyranny, and life out of death. To cultures endemic with terrible poverty, brutality, lawlessness, and disease, those faithful Christian witnesses interjected the novel Christian concepts of grace, charity, law, medicine, and the sanctity of life. They overturned despots, liberated the captives, and rescued the perishing. They established hospitals. They founded orphanages. They started rescue missions. They built alms-houses. They opened soup kitchens. They incorporated charitable societies. They changed laws. They demonstrated love. They lived as if people really mattered. Wherever missionaries went, they faced a dual challenge: confront sin in men's hearts and confront sin in men's cultures." -- George Grant in his Introduction to The Greatest Century of Missions
"THE GREATEST CENTURY OF MISSIONS book is a treasure trove of incredible adventures, inspiring exploits and unbelievable achievements of some of the most extra-ordinary people in the most momentous era of Christian advance. This book will be an invaluable resource for pastors and missionaries and a textbook for senior homeschoolers, Christian schools and Bible colleges. It should be required reading for prospective missionaries." -- Publisher
A Geo-Strategic Overview of the Greatest Century of Reformation, Peter Hammond
https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=9221786370
*Hammond, Peter, The Greatest Century of Reformation, ISBN: 9780994697172 0994697171.
"In this book, readers are introduced to examples of excellence -- Professor John Wycliffe of Oxford University; Queen Anne from Bohemia; Professor Jan Hus of Prague University; Gutenberg, the Father of the Printing Press, and Italian Reformer Savonarola -- are some of the pre-Reformers that are highlighted in the chapter on Preparation for Reformation. Towering above all the Reformers is Dr. Martin Luther; followed by Ulrich Zwingli, the Reformer of Zurich; William Tyndale, who gave his life translating the Bible into English; Heinrich Bullinger, the Consolidator of the Reformation; Martin Bucer, the Reformer of Strassburg; Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, who transformed the Catholic church in England into the Reformed Church of England; Anne Askew, a Daughter of the Reformation; Philipp Melanchthon, the Teacher of Germany; the fiery debater and Evangelist, William Farel; the greatest Theologian of the second generation of Reformers, John Calvin; John Knox, whose prayer: 'Give me Scotland or I die!' was answered in his own lifetime; Pierre Viret, the French Evangelist and Reformer; Albrecht Dürer, the Evangelist and Reformer in Art and many more, are illustrated and quoted in this book.
"Practical Resources to Empower You for Reformation Today
"There are also chapters on Martin Luther's Practical Programme to Revive your Prayer Life, How the Reformation Changed the Church and How the Reformation Changed the World. The Appendices include a Chronology of the Reformation, a Reformation Calendar of key events and dates, the people of the Reformation, the popes of Rome, Libel against Luther and articles tackling thorny issues, such as, Did the Reformers Persecute the Anabaptists? and Is Celebrating the Reformation Anti-Catholic? There are lists of Roman catholic heresies and inventions and the approximate dates of when they were introduced. The Challenge of Islam According to the Reformers, The Five Points of Calvinism in the Teachings of Christ, 25 Steps You Can Take for Reformation Today, Key Contacts for Reformation Today, Questions for Discussion, either for home educators, or at Bible college classes, are also included. The book concludes with an inspiring example of how to celebrate and promote Reformation Today, applying the Lordship of Christ to all areas of life." -- Publisher
*Hammond, Peter, Victorious Christians who Changed the World, ISBN: 9780980263985 0980263980.
"Christians today have short memories. They sometimes feel rootless, for they have forgotten their heritage. But it was not always so. When the Reformers and Puritans wrote, they quoted godly leaders from a thousand years before them as still relevant for their day. Today we have an even richer treasury of Christian biography. We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses indeed -- at least six thousand years of Covenant-keepers. And the Bible says, 'Remember them.' Get to know the men of God who adorn the pages of church history. For in remembering them you will see Jesus Christ, and He remains ever the same." -- Joel R. Beeke
"The characters who fill these pages are men and women of differing natures and abilities, diverse in their talents and individual in their contribution to history, but they all have the common mark of the Cross upon them.
"From age to age, from century to century, from decade to decade, God has His peculiar people set aside for His glory. That glory is diligently recorded in these pages. This work is not only a book which will encourage the believer, but it is a book which will help the scholar. . . .
"As you begin your journey through their lives I would encourage you to take time to ask their God to instill in you the same fruit of the Spirit that turned their human weakness into Christian victory!" -- Ian R.K. Paisley
"You will never be the same after reading these incredible true stories of victorious Christians who impacted their world for Christ." -- Publisher
Hanko, Herman C., Portraits of Faithful Saints, ISBN: 0916206602 9780916206604.
"Contents:
1. Ancient period (100-750) Polycarp: martyr of Christ | Justin Martyr: convert from heathendom | Tertullian: theologian of the trinity | Anthony: ascetic among ascetics | Athanasius against the world | John Chrysostom: golden-tongued preacher | Augustine: theologian of sovereign grace | Patrick: missionary to Ireland | Columba: missionary to Scotland | Boniface: apostle to Germans.
2. Medieval period (750-1517) Alcuin: educator | Gotteschalk: martyr for predestination | Anselm: archbishop of Canterbury | Bernard of Clairvaux: monastic reformer and preacher | Francis of Assisi: medieval saint | Catherine of Siena: mystic | The Waldensians: medieval protestants | John Wycliffe: morning star of the Reformation | John Hus: Bohemian reformer.
3. Reformation period on the continent (1517-1600). Martin Luther: German reformer | Ulrich Zwingli: reformer of Zurich | John Calvin: Genevan reformer | William Farel: fiery evangelist of the Reformation | Martin Bucer: ecumenist of the Reformation | Peter Martyr Vermigli: Italian reformer. Heinrich Bullinger: covenant theologian | Theodore Beza: Calvin's successor | The story of two Fredericks (Frederick the Wise; Frederick the Pious) | Zacharius Ursinus and Caspar Olevianus: authors of the Heidelberg catechism | Guido de Bre's: author of the Belgic Confession | Peter Datheen: Father of Reformed liturgy |William the Silent: father of the Netherlands.
4. Reformation in Britain (1524-1600) William Tyndale: father of the English Bible |John Knox: the reformer of Scotland |Hugh Latimer: English reformer and martyr | Thomas Cranmer: sinning reformer |Andrew Melville: father of Presbyterianism.
5. Post-Reformation period in Britain (1600-1700). Alexander Henderson: covenanter | Samuel Rutherford: Westminster divine | The story of the two Margarets: the Wigtown martyrs | John Bunyan: author of The Pilgrim's Progress.
6. Post-Reformation period in the Netherlands (1600-1920). William Ames: Puritan in the Netherlands | Franciscus Gomarus: stubborn champion of God's glory | Johannes Maccovius: supralapsarian. Gijsbert Voetius: defender of orthodoxy | Johannes Cocceius: Biblical theologian | William III of Orange: warrior of the faith | Hendrik De Cock: reformed reformer | Abraham Kuyper: Dutch Calvinist.
7. 20th century reformers in the U.S. (1920-1965). J. Gresham Machen: Presbyterian reformer | Herman Hoeksema: theologian and reformer | George Martin Ophoff: humble servant of the truth."
Harper, James, John Eadie, and William Lindsay, Lives of Ebenezer Erskine, William Wilson, and Thomas Gillespie: Fathers of the United Presbyterian Church, 1849. Alternate title: 'MEMOIR' IN LIVES OF EBENEZER ERSKINE.
Harrison, Cassain, Liam Neeson, Timothy West, Lee Pullbrook, and Nick Powell, Martin Luther, DVD, distributed by PBS Home Video, ISBN: 0793696283 9780793696284.
"Traces Luther's life. His attack on the all-powerful Catholic Church was a knife to the heart of an empire that had endured for over a thousand years. Luther became a monk and by the nailing of his treatise to the doors of the Wittenberg Cathedral, Martin Luther changed the world forever, unleashing forces that plunged Europe into war and chaos. Martin Luther not only revolutionize the Church, he offered the Christian world a new vision of man's relationship with God, and in turn redefined man's relationship with authority in general. This is a dramatic story of the collapse of the medieval world, of social, economic and political revolution, and of the birth of the modern age." -- Publisher
*Harrison, Frank Mott, John Bunyan, ISBN: 0851511058 9780851511054.
"Bunyan had a great love for liberty and this is said to be the most definitive biography of him. Harrison poured much of his life into preparing the bibliography." -- Reader's Comment
Hay Fleming, David (1849-1931), Mary Queen of Scots, From her Birth to her Flight into England: A Brief Biography: With Critical Notes, a few Documents Hitherto Unpublished, and an Itinerary, 1898. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Hayden, Eric W., The Spurgeon Family, ISBN: 1561862061 9781561862061.
Contains 24 classic pictures and illustrations. Biographies of Spurgeon and immediate relatives.
Hefley, James, and Marti Hefle, By Their Blood: Christian Martyrs of the 20th Century, ISBN: 0915134284 9780915134281.
"Too often we forget that God's people are suffering and being martyred. Here in a vivid book we are awakened. What FOXE'S BOOK OF MARTYRS did for generations past this book does for our generation." -- GCB
"The book begins with accounts of the martyrs during the Boxer Rebellion in China, continues with martyrs in Japan and Korea, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, Nazi Germany, and of the Soviet Union and its communist regimes. Then there are martyrs from the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, and from Latin America. . . .
"The stories themselves are gruesome. There is no viciousness like the viciousness of those who worship humanly-conceived gods. Like the Roman Catholic inquisitors in the sixteenth century, men in all nations have at one time or another sought to physically torture Christians to make them recant their testimonies. It is said that for every Christian Stalin murdered in Russia, two or more were raised up by God, until Stalin ordered the killing stopped for fear the whole nation would become Christians. Despite the lurid details of the torture, we recommend that everyone read the books that tell of martyrs dying for the cause of God and truth. This goes for children. Before you cry out, remember what they are watching on television, and seeing in movies, yes, and reading in Stephen King books, and others of that kind. Horror stories are bestsellers in our times. Let the children learn what horrible things are being done to Christians merely because they believe and obey God's word, and because of it worship the Lord Jesus Christ. . . ." -- Jay P. Green, Sr. (1918-2008)
Henry, Matthew, and William Tong, The Miscellaneous Writings of the Reverend Matthew Henry; Consisting of the Life of his Father, Sermons, Tracts, and Biographical Sketches of Eminent Christians and Ministers.
Heidebrecht, Paul H., God's Man in the Marketplace: The Story of Herbert J. Taylor, ISBN: 0830817336 9780830817337.
"Telling the story of Herbert J. Taylor, Paul H. Heidebrecht offers an inspiring practical model of how God can use people in the marketplace as well as on the mission field." -- Publisher
Henry, Carl F.H., Confessions of a Theologian: An Autobiography, ISBN: 0849904552 9780849904554.
"Carl Henry has been hailed as one of the great theologians of this century. In this autobiography we see him as a man, growing and learning. A delightful and enlightening look at an important thinker and the things that made him what he is today." -- GCB
Henry, William Wirt, Patrick Henry: Life, Correspondence, Speeches, 3 volumes, ISBN: 0873771656 9780873771658.
William Wirt Henry is the grandson of Patrick Henry and the author of PRESBYTERIANS IN VIRGINIA.
*Hodge, Archibald Alexander (1823-1886), The Life of Charles Hodge, D.D., L.L.D.: Professor in the Theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J., ISBN: 0405002505.
"Traces the life and ministry of the renowned Princeton Seminary theologian. Reprinted from the 1881 edition." -- Cyril J. Barber
Holborn, Hajo, Ulrich Von Hutten and the German Reformation, revised and expanded translation, ISBN: 0313201250 9780313201257.
Hollingworth, Miles, Saint Augustine of Hippo: An Intellectual Biography, ISBN: 9780199861606 0199861609.
"In a stimulating and provocative reinterpretation of Augustine's ideas and their position in the Western intellectual tradition, Miles Hollingworth, though well versed in the latest scholarship, draws his inspiration largely from the actual narrative of Augustine's life. By this means he reintroduces a cardinal but long-neglected fact to the center of Augustinian studies: that there is a direct line from Augustine's own early experiences of life to his later commentaries on humanity." -- Publisher
Hosier, Helen Kooiman, 100 Christian Women who Changed the Twentieth Century, ISBN: 0800757289 9780800757281.
"This book shares the life stories of one hundred women who have made a difference -- women who have literally changed the twentieth century. Their lives are a rich tapestry of experiences and backgrounds, vocations, and nationalities." -- Publisher
Houghton, Frank, Amy Carmichael of Dohnavur: The Story of a Lover and her Beloved, ISBN: 0875080847 9780875080840.
"Amy Carmichael left the British Isles to be a missionary in India. She never came home. Dohnavur became her home and the people of India became her people. Her quiet life of service (for many years an invalid), still shines brightly. I can say that this book about Amy Carmichael changed my life.
"I highly recommend it as well as other books by her and about her." -- Reader's Comment
Houston, Thomas (1803-1882), Works, Doctrinal and Practical, 4 volumes.
"Contents:
Vol. l. Parental duties. The adoption of sons. The judgment of the papacy
Vol. 2. Youthful devotedness. The fellowship prayer-meeting
Vol. 3. Christian baptism. A memorial of covenanting
Vol. 4. Spiritual consolation. Life of Rev. John Livingstone. The races."
*Hughes, Philip E., The Register of the Company of Pastors of Geneva in the Time of Calvin, ISBN: 1592444865 9781592444861.
The last chapter, about Calvin's last meeting with his pastors, is said to be one of the great pieces of Reformation literature.
Hulse, Erroll, Adoniram Judson and the Missionary Call.
"Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) was the first missionary to sail abroad from America in the great mission awakening that developed in the early 19th century. Three principal purposes are designed in this presentation of Judson's life and doctrine. First, there is inspiration for every reader, as Judson exemplifies Christian faith, love, self-discipline, enterprise, perseverance, and godliness. Second, Adoniram Judson set an example of total commitment to inspire missionaries in enduring the inevitable strains peculiar to their calling. Third, there is the reality of the unfinished task of reaching the yet unreached people groups of the world. May Judson's example contribute to thrusting out many new labourers into the harvest fields." -- Publisher
Adoniram Judson and the Missionary Call
https://www.monergism.com/adoniram-judson-and-missionary-call-ebook
Jay, William, George Redford (contributor), John Angell James (contributor), The Autobiography of William Jay, ISBN: 0851511775 9780851511771.
Johnson, Jewell, The top 100 Women of the Christian Faith: Who They are and What They Mean to you Today, ISBN: 9781616266820 1616266821.
"Here are 100 Christian women who changed the world: THE TOP 100 WOMEN OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH will encourage and inspire you in your life today! From Harriet Tubman to Corrie ten Boom, from Katie Luther to Lisa Beamer, and from Fannie Crosby to Queen Victoria, the women of Christian history present a beautiful spectrum of service and devotion. These essays, short and easy-to-read, present the life stories of these amazing women along with biblical insights for modern living." -- Publisher
Johnson, Thomas Cary, and Robert Lewis Dabney, The Life and Letters of Robert Lewis Dabney, ISBN: 0790552868 9780790552866.
*Johnston, E.A., George Whitefield: A Definitive Biography, 2 volumes, ISBN: 9781901670769 1901670767 9781901670776 1901670775 9781901670783 1901670783.
Kavanaugh, Patrick, The Spiritual Lives of Great Composers, ISBN: 0310208068 9780310208068.
"With an introduction by Christopher Parkening, this book opens up an area about which most of us know little. A brisk walk through the innermost thoughts of 12 masters of western music (Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Dvorak, Ives, and Stravinsky)." -- Publisher
Kennedy, D. James (1930-2007), The Secret of Commitment, a sermon (Fort Lauderdale, FL: Coral Ridge Ministries).
"The life of David Livingston has had a greater affect on D. James Kennedy than any other person besides Christ."
Ketcherside, W. Carl, Pilgrimage of Joy: An Autobiography of Carl Ketcherside, ISBN: 0899003915 9780899003917.
Kondracke, Morton, and Fred Barnes, Jack Kemp: The Bleeding-Heart Conservative who Changed America, ISBN: 1591847435, 9781591847434.
"The purpose of politics is not to defeat your opponent as much as it is to provide superior leadership and better ideas than the opposition." -- Jack Kemp
"The late 1970s were miserable for America. It was the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate era, a time of high unemployment, ruinous inflation, gasoline lines, Communist advances, and bottomed-out U.S. morale. In the 1980s, it all turned around: 'stagflation' ended and nearly two decades of prosperity ensued. The Soviet Union retreated, then collapsed. America again believed in itself. And around the world, democratic capitalism was deemed 'the end of history.'
"Ronald Reagan's policies sparked the American renaissance, but the Gipper's leadership is only part of the story. The economic theory that underpinned America's success was pioneered by a star professional quarterback turned self-taught intellectual and 'bleeding-heart conservative:' Jack Kemp.
"Kemp's role in a pivotal period in American history is at last illuminated in this first-ever biography, which also has lessons for the politics of today. Kemp was the congressional champion of supply-side economics -- the idea that lowering taxes would foster growth. Even today, almost no one advocates a return to a top income tax rate of 70 percent.
"Kemp didn't just challenge the Democratic establishment. He also encouraged his fellow Republicans to be growth (not austerity) minded, open their tent to minorities and blue-collar workers, battle poverty and discrimination, and once again become 'the party of Lincoln.'
"Kemp approached politics the same way he played quarterback for the Buffalo Bills: with a refusal to accept defeat. Yet he also was incapable of personal attack, arguing always on the level of ideas. He regarded opponents as adversaries, not enemies, and often cooperated with them to get things done. Despite many ups and downs, including failed presidential and vice-presidential bids, he represented a positive, idealistic, compassionate Republicanism.
"Drawing on never-published papers and more than one hundred Kemp Oral History Project interviews, noted journalists Morton Kondracke and Fred Barnes trace Kemp's life, from his childhood through his pro football career to his influential years as a congressman and cabinet secretary.
"As the American Dream seems to be waning and polarized politics stifles Washington, Kemp is a model for what politics ought to be. The Republican party and the nation are in desperate need of another Kemp." -- Publisher
Morton Kondracke served as the executive editor and columnist for the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call and was the Washington bureau chief of Newsweek and a senior editor of The New Republic. He was a regular commentator on the Fox News Channel, a panelist on The McLaughlin Group, a cohost of The Beltway Boys, and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He conducted the Kemp Oral History Project and held the Jack Kemp Chair in Political Economy at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He contributes a blog, Pennsylvania Avenue, for Roll Call. His book SAVING MILLY was a New York Times bestseller.
"Fred Barnes is the cofounder and executive editor of The Weekly Standard. He was the national political reporter for the Baltimore Sun from 1979 to 1985, then senior editor and White House correspondent for The New Republic for ten years. He was a McLaughlin Group panelist from 1984 to 1998. He is a political commentator on Fox News and was a cohost, along with Morton Kondracke, of The Beltway Boys on FOX News. He is the author of REBEL-IN-CHIEF: INSIDE THE BOLD AND CONTROVERSIAL PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE W. BUSH." -- Publisher
"Jack Kemp was the most forward-looking, open-hearted, big-tented Republican of our time (save, perhaps, Ronald Reagan). In this beautifully written biography, Morton Kondracke and Fred Barnes capture the energy, optimism, intellectual fire, and social conscience of this fascinating man." -- Charles Krauthammer, author of Things That Matter
"Jack Kemp was a man for his time and, as this compelling biography makes clear, a man for our time as well. Read it for his absorbing personal story and read it for his ideas as well." -- Brit Hume, senior political analyst, Fox News
Lambert, James L., 16 Amazing Stories of Divine Intervention: Discover how Real People Discovered Real Life, ISBN: 9781619047297 1619047292.
"Oden Fong's testimony of once being a disciple of the psychedelic drug guru Timothy Leary, to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ, is very inspiring for those who have all but given up hope for a friend or family member who seems to be in a hopeless condition. -- Chuck Smith, Senior Pastor and Founder -- Calvary Chapel (Costa Mesa, CA)
"After more than 30 years of working with hundreds of pro athletes, Darren's story, which is one of many amazing stories in James' new book, is quite inspirational. -- Shawn Mitchell, Chaplain, San Diego Chargers Professional Football Organization and Pastor, New Venture Christian Fellowship.
"Contents:
Preface: 16 Amazing Stories of Divine Intervention
Chapter 1: Mickey Mantle -- His Ninth-Inning Miracle
Chapter 2: George Washington -- The Untold Story
Chapter 3: Steve McQueen -- Hollywood's "King of Cool"
Chapter 4: Ruben "Lefty" De La Torre -- A Former Gang Leader's Remarkable Story
Chapter 5: Ronald Reagan -- Appointment With Destiny
Chapter 6: Oden Fong -- A Near Death Experience
Chapter 7: Brian Welch -- Korn's Former Lead Guitarist's Radical Transformation
Chapter 8: William J. Murray -- Former Atheist Activist
Chapter 9: Annie Meadows -- Former Witch Sees "The Light" and now Sings for God
Chapter 10: Josh Hamilton -- A Texas Ranger Outfielder's Miracle From God
Chapter 11: Michael Glatze -- Young Gay America's Managing Editor Finds Truth
Chapter 12: Darren Carrington -- An NFL Veteran Discovers the Best Game Plan
Chapter 13: Bryan Maclean -- Searching for Love
Chapter 14: Brenda M. MacKillop -- A Playboy Bunny Finds Peace
Chapter 15: Patricia Louise White -- Escaping the "Great Deception"
Chapter 16: The Rich Man and Lazarus -- A Trip to Hell
Final Word: The Most Amazing Story can be you"
Website for the book
http://www.16amazingstories.com/
Lang, Paul Henry, George Frideric Handel.
Lawton, George, Within the Rock of Ages: The Life and Work of Augustus Montague Toplady, ISBN: 0227678362 9780227678367.
"New and authoritative biography of the writer of the great hymn, Rock of Ages. Toplady was more than a hymn writer. He was a minister, poet and keen participant in contemporary theological debates of his day. The biographer charts Toplady's heated battle with Wesley over the relative merits of Calvinism and Arminianism." -- GCB
Lean, Garth, God's Politician: William Wilberforce's Struggle, ISBN: 0939443031 9780939443031.
Lee, Francis Nigel, John Calvin, True Presbyterian, ISBN: 0949754005 9780949754004.
Limbaugh, David Scott, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel, ISBN: 1621574113 9781621574118.
"In JESUS ON TRIAL, David Limbaugh applies his lifetime of legal experience to a unique new undertaking: making a case for the gospels as hard evidence of the life and work of Jesus Christ. Limbaugh, a practicing attorney and former professor of law, approaches the canonical gospels with the same level of scrutiny he would apply to any legal document and asks all the necessary questions about the story of Jesus told through Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. His analysis of the texts becomes profoundly personal as he reflects on his own spiritual and intellectual odyssey from determined skeptic to devout Christian. Ultimately, Limbaugh concludes that the words Christians have treasured for centuries stand up to his exhaustive inquiry -- including his examination of historical and religious evidence beyond the gospels -- and thereby affirms Christian faith, spirituality, and tradition. . . .
"David Limbaugh is a conservative political commentator, lawyer, and New York Times bestselling author of ABSOLUTE POWER, PERSECUTION, BANKRUPT, CRIMES AGAINST LIBERTY, and THE GREAT DESTROYER. [David Scott Limbaugh is the younger brother of talk radio host Rush Limbaugh -- compiler]. Limbaugh publishes a nationally syndicated column that is carried by Creators Syndicate, Townhall.com, Jewish World Review, The Washington Times, and Newsmax." -- Publisher
Livingstone, David, Life and Explorations of David Livingstone: The Great Missionary Explorer in the Interior of Africa: Comprising all his Extensive Travels and Discoveries as Detailed in his Diary, Reports and Letters, and Including his Famous Last Journals; Together With the Explorations of Barth, Baker, Speke, Du Craillu, and Others, and a Full Account of the Herald-Stanley Expedition. Alternate title: LIVINGSTONE AND THE WONDERS OF AFRICA and DOCTOR LIVINGSTON'S LIFE AND EXPLORATIONS IN AFRICA.
Livingston, David, and H. Waller, The Last Journals of David Livingston in Central Africa From 1865 to his Death, 2 volumes, 1874.
Lloyd-Jones, Bethan, Memories of Sandfields: 1927-1938, ISBN: 9780851519982 0851519989.
"This book covers the 11 years 1927-1938, which Bethan says were their happiest. These pages by D. Lloyd-Jones' wife are chiefly vivid sketches of some of the events, and of the life of the spiritual family which the church became." -- GCB
*Lloyd-Jones, D. Martyn (1899-1981), Lloyd-Jones, D. Martyn: The Man and His Books, ISBN: 0851516742.
*Lorimer, Peter, John Knox and the Church of England: His Work in her Pulpit and his Influence Upon her Liturgy, Articles, and Parties. Alternate Title: JOHN KNOX AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, HIS WORK IN HER PULPIT AND HIS INFLUENCE UPON HER LITURGY, ARTICLES, AND PARTIES. A MONOGRAPH FOUNDED UPON SEVERAL IMPORTANT PAPERS OF KNOX NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #1.
" 'The 'three mighties' in the army of the Reformation, are undoubtedly Luther, Calvin, and Knox. Each of the three has his appropriate place and his peculiar work. Luther cleared the ground; Calvin exhibited the plan of the new edifice; Knox was the workman who erected it.' (Wylie, Tercentenary of the Scottish Reformation, p. 73, this book is listed under 'Cunningham' in this catalogue). Here Lorimer gives us an important look at a major chapter in the life of Christ's Reformation 'workman,' as founded upon several important papers of Knox never before published. Kyle elaborates: 'After the publication of Laing's collection, three smaller Knoxian writings were discovered. In 1875 these tracts were reprinted as part of Peter Lorimer's book JOHN KNOX AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. Scholarly criticism has verified Knox's authorship of these articles.' (The Mind of John Knox, p. 14). Lorimer himself says that 'the amount of fresh biographical and historical material supplied by these papers is so very considerable that it appeared to warrant and suggest a rewriting of the English chapter of Knox's life.' Furthermore, he continues, that though Knox is too often thought of only in connection 'with his work and success as the Reformer of Scotland,' it should be remembered that 'a large portion of the best and most energetic part of his life was spent in England, and among Englishmen out of England.' Written as a Monograph to 'make larger and freer use of Knox's own writings, in the way of culling their most personal and characteristic passages,' Lorimer intimates, 'I wished, as much as possible, to let Knox himself be seen and heard in my book.' Kevin Reed, one of the foremost Knox scholars alive today, calls this work 'an excellent account of Knox's ministry in England.' (JOHN KNOX THE FORGOTTEN REFORMER, Presbyterian Heritage Publishing, p. 19). A great supplement to any study of Knox." -- Publisher
Luther, Martin, Martin Luther (50th Anniversary Edition), ISBN: 0780641469 9780780641464. (Format: U.S. and Canada only. This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries).
Directed by Irving Pichel. Written by Allan Sloane and Lothar Wolff. Staring Niall MacGinnis, Phillip Leaver, David Horne, Annette Carell.
"This films was nominated for two Oscars in 1953, picked by the New York Times as one of the 10 best films of the year, and generally acclaimed by most Christian groups. . . .
"This version [by Gateway Films (610-584-3500)], comes from the original negative material and is by far the finest you will see of this title.
"Though not a restoration of the original film this issue has . . . a number of little 'Extras' that give some insight into present-day sites of events in Martin Luther's life, an interesting biography of how the film came to be made, and the special way that it was brought to theaters, as well as bios and photos of the actors and production crew." -- Viewer Comment
MacDonald, Greville, George MacDonald and his Wife, ISBN: 1881084639 9781881084631.
Includes bibliography.
*Machen, J. Gresham, The Origin of Paul's Religion: the James Sprunt Lectures Delivered at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia.
"Consists of the James Sprunt Lectures, Union Theological Seminary, Virginia. Surveys the early years of Paul's life, his Jewish environment, religious training, and development of his doctrine. A valuable treatment. Amillennial." -- Cyril J. Barber
Maclachlan, T. Banks, David Livingstone.
MacLeod, A. Donald, W. Stanford Reid: An Evangelical Calvinist in the Academy, ISBN: 0773527702 9780773527706.
"W. Stanford Reid's career affected both university and religious life in Canada during the post-war period. Donald MacLeod traces Reid's career in the university, first at McGill, where Reid was a history professor for twenty-four years as well as dean of residences, and then at the University of Guelph, where he set up a history department, organized a large graduate program, and created a Scottish Studies emphasis.
"MacLeod's in-depth analysis examines how an observant Christian academic, unapologetically Calvinist, openly articulated his faith in a secular environment and helped convince evangelicals to abandon their ghettoizing anti-intellectualism. His discussion of Reid's international networking serves as a reminder of the way in which Canadian evangelicalism was influenced by and in turn influenced the United States, where Reid's influence was appreciable, both as a trustee of Westminster Seminary for thirty-seven years and as editor at large of the nascent Christianity Today. W. STANFORD REID is a poignant, in-depth investigation of the life of a man whose career spanned academia and church." -- Publisher
Mangalwadi, Vishal, and Ruth Mangalwadi, The Legacy of William Carey: A Model for the Transformation of a Culture, ISBN: 1581341121 9781581341126.
"He was an industrialist. An economist. A medical humanitarian. A media pioneer. An educator. A moral reformer. A botanist. And a Christian missionary. And he did more for the transformation of the Indian subcontinent in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries than any other individual before or since.
"Many know of William Carey. Some know about the specifics of his work and ministry. But few understand the profound contemporary significance of his life. Few realize how much we owe the increasing globalization of Christianity to the silent revolution he initiated. Fewer still are aware of his legacy of sensitivity to the variety of issues confronting true gospel witness in any culture.
"This biography about the central character in the story of India's modernization and transformation will help you understand Carey's impact. But THE LEGACY OF WILLIAM CAREY is more than a biography. It is a charge to all Christians to respond in kind within our own cultures, and to use Carey's example as our model for taking the light of the Gospel into every corner of society. If we follow in his footsteps, not only will lives be bettered this side of heaven, but hearts will be changed for eternity -- and entire cultures transformed for Christ." -- Publisher
Mansfield, Stephen, Forgotten Founding Father: The Heroic Legacy of George Whitefield, ISBN: 1581821654 9781581821659.
"If you are spiritually dry, and need an uplifting book that is not 600 pages this is it. I was so motivated after reading this, Whitefield is one of my heroes of the faith, a giant along with Luther and Calvin. This may sit on the nightstand forever as a constant reminder of how God uses those who seek him fervently." -- Reader's Comment
Marshall, Catherine, A Man Called Peter, ISBN: 4871876284 9784871876285.
Six of Peter Marshall's best known sermons are reprinted at the end of this biography. "The American Dream" speaks about freedom in America.
*Mather, Cotton (1663-1728), The Great Works of Christ in America (Magnalia Christi Americana), 2 volumes, ISBN: 0851512801 9780851512808 085151281X 9780851512815.
"Almost a Puritan Church history, covering much of the 17th century in the early colonies. Biographical information and facts not to be found elsewhere. Not chronological, instead built around the people of the time." -- GCB
A carefully documented history of God's work in New England. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Magnalia Christi Americana, Cotton Mather, 1702, Introduction
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/cotton2.html
Matthew, Sylvester (1636/7-1708), Reliquiae Baxteriana; or, Mr. Richard Baxter's Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of his Life and Times.
McCullough, David, John Adams, ISBN: 9780743223133 0743223136.
"In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as 'out of his senses'; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history. This is history on a grand scale.
"A book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived." -- Publisher
McGrath, Alister E, A Life of John Calvin: A Study in the Shaping of Western Culture, ISBN: 0631163980 9780631163985.
"Provides an exploration of Calvin's life and influence, his theology and his political thought, and his determining of the course of European history. This book traces Calvin's remarkable impact on the development of modern Western attitudes to work, wealth, civil rights, capitalism and the natural sciences." -- Publisher
*M'Crie, Thomas (the elder, 1772-1835), The Life of Alexander Henderson: Minister of Edinburgh, and one of the Commissioners From the Church of Scotland to the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, ISBN: 052404497X 9780524044971. Available (LIVES OF ALEXANDER HENDERSON AND JAMES GUTHRIE) on the Puritan Hard Drive.
M'Crie, Thomas (the younger, 1797-1875), The Early Years of John Calvin: A Fragment, 1509-1536. Available (both singly and in the WORKS OF THOMAS M'CRIE [10 volumes]) on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"No apology is necessary for offering the public this fragment. So far as it goes, it is complete; and with its three hundred notes and references to more than sixty authors, it is a valuable literary treasure . . .
"The universal regret will be that the author did not live to complete it. It is published as a tribute of respect, and will be a lasting monument of the painstaking, laborious care, as well as of the clear and incisive style, of the writer." -- Publisher
M'Crie, Thomas, The Early Years of John Calvin: A Fragment 1509-1536
http://archive.org/details/earlyyearsofjohn00mcri
*M'Crie, Thomas (the younger, 1797-1875), Life of John Knox, 1855. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #1.
Life of John Knox: Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland: with Biographical Notices of the Principal Reformers, and Sketches of the Progress of Literature in Scotland During the Sixteenth Century; and an Appendix, Consisting of Original Papers
https://archive.org/details/lifeofjohnkno00mcri
M'Crie, Thomas (the younger, 1797-1875), The Life of Thomas M'Crie, D.D.: Author of "Life of John Knox," "Life of Melville," etc.
The Life of Thomas M'Crie, D.D.: Author of "Life of John Knox," "Life of Melville," etc. (1842)
http://archive.org/details/lifeofthomasmcr00mcri
*M'Crie (McCrie), Thomas (the elder, 1772-1835), and Thomas McCrie (1797-1875), The Works of Thomas M'Crie, D.D. (1855), vol. 1 of 4.
McCrie wrote numerous biographies including one of John Knox.
http://archive.org/details/worksofmccrie01mccruoft
McCrie, Thomas, The Works of Thomas M'Crie, D.D. (1855), vol. 2 of 4.
http://archive.org/details/worksofmccrie02mccruoft
McCrie, Thomas, The Works of Thomas M'Crie, D.D. (1855), vol. 3 of 4.
http://archive.org/details/theworksofmccrie03mccruoft
McCrie, Thomas, The Works of Thomas M'Crie, D.D. (1855), vol. 4 of 4.
http://archive.org/details/theworksofmccrie04mccruoft
M'Crie, Thomas (the elder, 1772-1835), William Veitch, George Brysson, James Wallace, and James Ure, Memoirs of Mr. William Veitch and George Brysson, 1825.
Melville, James (1535-1617), and George Scot (d. 1685), The Memoires of Sir James Melvin of Hal-hill Containing an Impartial Account of the Most Remarkable Affairs of State During the Last Age, not mention by other historians, more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, and King James: in all which transactions the author was personally and publicly concern: now published from the original manuscript / by George Scott, Gent.
Melville, James (1535-1617), and Wodrow Society, The Autobiography and Diary With a Continuation of the Diary.
Metaxas, Eric, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to end Slavery, 320 pages, ISBN: 0061173886 9780061173882.
"AMAZING GRACE tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament.
"At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, a battle Wilberforce won in 1807, as well as efforts to abolish slavery itself in the British colonies, a victory achieved just three days before his death in 1833.
"Metaxas discovers in this unsung hero a man of whom it can truly be said: he changed the world. Before Wilberforce, few thought slavery was wrong. After Wilberforce, most societies in the world came to see it as a great moral wrong.
"To mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade, HarperSanFrancisco and Bristol Bay Productions have joined together to commemorate the life of William Wilberforce with the feature-length film Amazing Grace and this companion biography, which provides a fuller account of the amazing life of this great man than can be captured on film.
"This account of Wilberforce's life will help many become acquainted with an exceptional man who was a hero to Abraham Lincoln and an inspiration to the anti-slavery movement in America." -- Publisher
Myers, John Brown, William Carey, The Shoemaker who Became "The Father and Founder of Modern Missions."
Miller, C. John (1928-1996), A Faith Worth Sharing: A Lifetime of Conversations About Christ, ISBN: 0875523919 9780875523910.
"This is not a book about clever techniques, or methodologies; it is a book of snapshots from one life given to impact others. If you too are someone who has been changed by the power of the gospel, then you need to pray for the opportunities to pass it on to others. This book will encourage you to do just that." -- Stephen Smallman
"C. John Miller taught practical theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, was Director of World Harvest Mission, and led mission trips to several countries. He was founding pastor of New Life Presbyterian Church, outside Philadelphia, from which grew several other congregations in the Philadelphia area. His other books include POWERFUL EVANGELISM FOR THE POWERLESS, and OUTGROWING THE INGROWN CHURCH." -- Publisher
Minor, Charles L.C. (Landon Carter, 1835-1903), Berkeley Minor (1842-1930), and Mary Willis Minor, The Real Lincoln From the Testimony of his Contemporaries, ISBN: 1175991341 9781175991348.
"Enhances the understanding of Abraham Lincoln and his times." -- Lloyd T. Sprinkle
Mohr, Franz, with Edith Schaeffer (1914-2013), My Life With the Great Pianists, ISBN: 0801057108 9780801057106.
"Interesting story of the Chief and Master Concert Technician for Steinway and Sons. Over the years he has worked closely with Horowitz, Van Cliburn, Rubinstein, Gould, Serkin, and many others. Insightful look behind the scenes and at the author's faith. Introduction by Edith Schaeffer." -- GCB
Morris, Henry, The Biblical Basis of Modern Science, ISBN: 0801061784 9780801061783.
Lists "some of the outstanding Bible-believing scientists who founded" various branches of science.
Morris, Henry, Men of Science, Men of God: Great Scientists Who Believe the Bible, revised, ISBN: 0890510806 9780890510803.
"One of the most serious fallacies of modern thought is the widespread notion that genuine scientists cannot believe the Bible. This book dispels that myth." -- GCB
Murray, Iain Hamish, Amy Carmichael: Beauty for Ashes: A Biography, ISBN: 9781848715523 1848715528.
"Iain H. Murray tells the story of the famous missionary who worked in India for decades."
*Murray, Iain, The Forgotten Spurgeon, ISBN: 0851511562 9780851511566.
"This is not a full-scale biography, but it highlights the remarkable career of Spurgeon, with emphasis on the doctrines that molded his life and thought. It is a very readable book, inspiring to greater effort toward living a humble but vigorous Christian life." -- Jay P. Green, Sr. (1918-2008)
Murray, Iain, J.C. Ryle: Prepared to Stand Alone, ISBN: 9781848716780 1848716788.
"A single-minded Christian communicator of profound biblical, theological and pastoral wisdom, a man and minister of giant personal stature and electric force ('unction' was the old name for it)." -- J.I. Packer (1926-2020)
"The life of J.C. Ryle has only to be heard once to be remembered. His 84 years (1816-1900) included remarkable contrasts -- the promise of a fortune, then the poverty of a bankrupt; a Suffolk country pastor, then bishop of the leading seaport of the British Empire. But there was a still greater change -- from the successful youth at Eton and Oxford, who did not pray or read his Bible till he was 21, to become a Christian 'bold as a lion for the truth of God's Word and his Gospel.'
"Although one of the most widely read evangelical authors of the nineteenth century, Ryle's writings lost influence after his death. The world had moved on, as was supposed. Then, fifty years later a 'rediscovery' began. Research on his life was accomplished by able authors, and from a new wealth of material Iain Murray has put together a compelling biography. Ryle believed in definite doctrine, in a message which does not adjust to the times, in revival, and in the living Christ. He knew that all the great turning points of church history have been attended with controversy, and that 'there are times when controversy is not only a duty but a benefit.'
"J.C. Ryle's life is convincing evidence that Christianity stands or falls depending on its relation to the word of God and to the Holy Spirit. That he is being read widely again at the present time gives hope of better days." -- Publisher
Murray, Iain, The Letters of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, ISBN: 0851516068 9780851516066.
Murray, Iain H., The Life of Arthur W. Pink, ISBN: 0851513328 9780851513324.
"Pink is recognized as one of the finest Christian writers of the twentieth century.
"One of the few who was to remain a burning witness to historic Christianity. . . . he was virtually unknown in the Christian world at the time of his death in 1952." -- Publisher
Murray, Iain H., The Life of John Murray: Professor of Systematic Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1937-1966, ISBN: 085151426X 9780851514260 0851514227 9780851514222.
"Murray's biography (also found in volume 3 of his COLLECTED WRITINGS), has been printed here in paperback form. In his life we see a man consumed with the Lord and His glory. His devotion to study of the Word and the untiring efforts to help others are an example to us all in living the Christian life." -- GCB
Murray, Iain, Lloyd-Jones, D. Martyn: The Fight of Faith, 1939-1981, ISBN: 0851515649 9780851515649.
"Murray is able to give his subject's own understanding of what happened. Neither public ministry nor controversy dominate the story." -- GCB
Murray, Iain, Lloyd-Jones, D. Martyn: The First Forty Years, 1899-1939, ISBN: 0851513530 9780851513539.
"Definitive biography of a remarkable man of God. Having written biographical works on Kenneth MacRae and Arthur W. Pink, Murray now turns his talents to an inspiring and personal look at one of the finest preachers of our generation. The book covers over 400 pages with over 35 pages of pictures." -- GCB
"Murray collected materials for this book for twenty years. . . . L-J was a stickler for the Scriptures. He was studious in discovering God's message in the Word, and he strictly adhered to the letter of that Word. In a day when reformed (Calvinistic) preachers are despised, and are almost never popular, the Doctor (as he was called), found his auditorium filled whenever he preached. The reviewer was there on a Thursday night, amazed to find the audience contained thousands of young person under 30. And the sermon on Romans was word by word, phrase by phrase expository preaching. There was not a single note of pop oratory -- he might have been thought to be preaching to a house full of Biblical scholars. Yet the message was plain and clear for all to understand.
"L-J was a lover of the Puritan writings. He not only loved to read them, but he followed their example in his expository preaching. He was not afraid to spend years on a single book of the Bible (such as Romans, Ephesians). Yet he was not guilty of excess verbiage, nor was there any repetition. He simply plumbed the depths of the Scriptures, and came up with the rich gems that God has buried there for all of us.
"Murray was L-J's assistant for three years at Westminster Chapel, and having joined him in forming The Banner of Truth Trust in 1957, was associated with him in that work for the rest of his life. Therefore, he is eminently qualified by both writing ability, and by personal knowledge, to write this interesting, informative, and inspiring biography. We heartily recommend it." -- Jay P. Green, Sr. (1918-2008)
*Murray, John (1898-1975), Collected Writings of John Murray, Professor of Systematic Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1937-1966, 4 volumes, ISBN: 0851513379 9780851513379.
Volume 3: Life; Sermons; Reviews, ISBN: 0851513379.
"The first part of this volume contains 150 pages on Murray's life, the second part contains 19 sermons on various passages of Scripture. In the third section there are 28 book reviews." -- GCB
*Neal, Daniel (1678-1743), and Joshua Toulmin, The History of the Puritans, or, Protestant Non-conformists: From the Reformation in 1517, to the Revolution in 1688; Comprising an Account of Their Principles; Their attempts for a farther reformation in the church, their sufferings, and the lives and characters of their most considerable divines, 4 volumes.
"Reprinted from the latest edition and containing critical notes, this outstanding presentation of Protestant nonconformity (from 1517 to 1688), delineates the course of action taken by those dubbed Puritan, describes the seeds of liberty and democracy that they spread and that lie latent in their history and teachings, and presents a vivid picture of the effect of their stand for truth. This is an excellent work and is well deserving of careful study. The benefits of reading these volumes is too great to be tabulated here. We can only hope that a new generation of men and women who are loyal to the Lord and His Word will peruse these pages to their own great profit." -- Cyril J. Barber
The History of the Puritans, or, Protestant Non-conformists . . . (vol. 1 of 4)
https://archive.org/details/historyofp01neal
The History of the Puritans, or, Protestant Non-conformists . . . (vol. 2 of 4)
https://archive.org/details/historyo02neal
The History of the Puritans, or, Protestant Non-conformists . . . (vol. 3 of 4)
https://archive.org/details/historyofpurit03neal
The History of the Puritans, or, Protestant Non-conformists . . . (vol. 4 of 4)
https://archive.org/details/historyofpurit04neal
Newton, John (1725-1807), John Newton.
Newton, John (1725-1807), The Letters of John Newton, ISBN: 0851519512 9780851519517.
"Newton (1725-1807), was a sailor, preacher, and hymn writer. He is, of course, one of the most colorful figures in the Great Evangelical Revival of the 18th century. You can learn much about a person by reading their letters." -- GCB
Newton, John (1725-1807), Out of the Depths, 2nd edition, ISBN: 0825433193 9780825433191.
"The original and unvarnished account of one of Christianity's most dramatic conversions -- the autobiography of John Newton, the author of 'Amazing Grace.' This is the ultimate, full-length hymn story, as spectacular and compelling today as when it was first written.
"Newton, and at age eleven went to sea with his father, a shipmaster on the Mediterranean. Disregarding his mother's prayer that he enter the ministry, he engaged in the lucrative but brutal African slave trade for a number of years. After his conversion he served in the Church of England as pastor of Olney parish and later of the combined church of St. Mary's in London.
"In addition to the words of 'Amazing Grace,' Newton was a prolific songwriter whose other well-known hymns include 'Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken' and 'How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds'." -- Publisher
Oberman, Heiko A., Luther: Man Between God and the Devil, ISBN: 0300037945 9780300037944.
"Written by one of the world's greatest authorities on Luther, this book portrays the controversial reformer in the context of his own time, analyzing his state of mind, and portraying his world more closely than has been done before." -- GCB
O'Donnell, James Joseph, Augustine, Sinner and Saint: A new Biography, ISBN: 1861976860 9781861976864 1861976046 9781861976048.
"Born Aurelius Augustinus in Tagaste, now Souk Ahras, Algeria, in 354 AD, this trail-blazing churchman was not baptized a Christian until the age of 33, following a religious crisis that ended his meteoric rise from provincial obscurity to the fringes of an imperial court. Nine years later, he was ordained a bishop at Hippo, a wealthy port city in Roman-ruled North Africa. Not long after, between the years 397 and 401, he wrote THE CONFESSIONS -- a profound, intimate work of meditation on his own identity, his pasts, and his future.
"Who was Augustine before, after, and beyond THE CONFESSIONS? What strengths of character and twists of fate, or perhaps 'predestination' (a notion he vigorously defended), propelled the son of a minor landowner, with no money to speak of, and few connections, to become a powerful leader and eloquent shaper of affairs in his own time? Beyond dogma, what is Augustine's legacy for global history?
"In this biography James J. O'Donnell, preeminent Augustinian scholar, offers insights into a figure -- saint to many -- who turns out to be more complex, more important, and perhaps more interesting than even readers of THE CONFESSIONS suspect." -- Publisher
Omartian, Stormie, Stormie: A Story of Forgiveness and Healing, ISBN: 1565078322 9781565078321.
"What a wonderful book to read for anyone who has lived with mental illness or was a member of a family with a parent that suffered from mental illness. It shows how one woman, having grown up in a two-parent household, had an absolutely horrific childhood. Her mother locked her in a closet for hours on end and continually verbally abused her as well. As she reaches adulthood, knowing how to relate to others is tough and causes much anxiety and pain. Through much error and wrong choices during her young adult years, she meets a man who tries to tell her about the love Jesus has for her. Not really understanding what it is all about, Stormie continues down the wrong path until one day she truly opens her heart up to God! Through reading this book, one is able to gain knowledge about people with mental illness as well as learn how to experience the love and forgiveness of God." -- Reader's Comment
Orme, William, and John Owen, The Life of the Rev. John Owen, D.D.
Owen, John (1616-1683, anonymous author), The Life of the Reverend and Learned John Owen, D.D. Sometime Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. To Which are Added, Letters to his Friends. London, 1758.
Packer, J.I. (1926-2020), Faithfulness and Holiness: The Witness of J.C. Ryle: An Appreciation by J.I. Packer, ISBN: 1581343582 9781581343588.
"Including the full text of the first edition of Ryle's classic book, HOLINESS.
"Read the first half of the book for a short biography on Ryle. It was a good synopsis of his life." -- Reader's Comment
"As eldest son and heir to a fortune, J.C. Ryle had a hopeful future until the day his father declared bankruptcy. In a single moment, he was stripped of everything -- land, title, wealth, security -- and life as he knew it no longer existed. Ryle was devastated. And yet, had this not happened, Ryle would likely have entered Parliament rather than becoming a clergyman, and he might never have written a single book or tract or sermon, or become one of the most influential evangelical leaders of the 19th century. What could have broken Ryle beyond despair became the very instrument that led him towards holiness. Here in a single volume are not only J.I. Packer's reflections on the life of John Charles Ryle, but the very words of Ryle himself in a reprint of his classic work, HOLINESS. We see the faith that encouraged him through his difficulties. The hope that gave him a future. The God who blessed Ryle more than he ever imagined possible. And we are encouraged that the very God who worked a miracle in Ryle's life is the same One who works in us, leading us to holiness." -- Publisher
Paisley, Ian R.K., George Whitefield.
Paisley, Rhonda, Ian Paisley, my Father, ISBN: 0551017228 9780551017221.
Palmer, B.M., A Discourse Commemorative of the Life, Character, and Genius of the Late Rev. J.H. Thornwell, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology in the Theological Seminary at Columbia, S.C.
Palmer, Benjamin M.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_M._Palmer
Palmer, B.M., and James Henley Thornwell, The Life and Letters of James Henley Thornwell. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Palmer, Samuel (1741-1813), Memoirs of Matthew Henry, 1809. Available separately and prefixed to HENRY'S MISCELLANEOUS WORKS. Alternate title: THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS OF MATTHEW HENRY.
*Parker, Thomas H.L., John Calvin: A Biography, ISBN: 0745912192 9780745912196.
"A definitive account of Calvin's life and labors with special attention being paid to Calvin's doctrine, writing, and influence." -- Cyril J. Barber
Paton, John G., and Sinclair B. Ferguson, John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides, ISBN: 085151667X 9780851516677.
"This is the moving autobiography of the heroic Scot missionary, John G. Paton, who introduced the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the cannibalistic inhabitants of the New Hebrides in the mid-nineteenth century." -- Publisher
Pauck, Wilhelm (editor), Melanchthon and Bucer, ISBN: 0664220193 9780664220198.
Pavlik, Robert C., and Steve Roper (foreword), Norman Clyde: Legendary Mountaineer of California's Sierra Nevada, ISBN: 9781597141109 1597141100.
Norman Clyde's father, Charles Clyde, was ordained in David Steele's (1803-1887) Reformed Presbytery congregation in 1883.
"This riveting account of one of the most notable personalities of the mountain climbing world reconstructs the life of legendary mountaineer Norman Clyde (1885-1972). He made his mark on history with more than one hundred and thirty first ascents throughout western North America, and many believe he knew the High Sierra better than anyone else, including John Muir. Part of his mystique comes from participating in high-profile mountain rescues and recoveries, in which he is credited with saving a number of lives. Those who had the good fortune to meet him -- often with a ninety-pound pack on his back that included an anvil for boot repair, fishing rods, cooking pots, and books in Greek and Latin -- never forgot the experience. Biographer Robert C. Pavlik uses Clyde's own words, along with recollections from his family, friends, fellow climbers, and acquaintances, to capture the experiences of a remarkable man and a bygone time 'between the pioneers and the rock climbers'." -- Publisher
Lonely Grave in the Sierra: Norman Clyde
"Norman Asa Clyde, the eldest child in Charles and Sarah Clyde's family, was born in Philadelphia, in 1885. His father, Charles, who probably didn't get much formal education in his youth, but was eager to learn, began taking private lessons in classical literature and theology in about 1879. His mentor and teacher was David Steele (1803-1887). Charles became ordained to the office of the ministry in Steele's Reformed Presbytery (RP) congregation in 1883. In the year in which Norman was born, his father got involved in a bitter conflict with his mentor. After Steele's death in 1887, Charles Clyde became an itinerant minister with no settled congregation, preaching in various places in Pennsylvania and across the midwest."
http://www.stanford.edu/~galic/rettenbacher/clyde.html
Posner, Steve, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Billy Graham and Me, ISBN: 9781611592207 1611592208.
"CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL: BILLY GRAHAM AND ME contains 101 fascinating stories from all the living U.S. presidents, well-known pastors, country singers and other celebrities, and world leaders, relating their personal experiences with Billy Graham. Renowned Evangelical preacher Billy Graham has touched tens of millions of lives, inspiring faith and hope around the world. And you will get to know the beloved preacher better in these inspiring, personal stories by the people who know him best. You will meet the real Billy Graham, the man behind the public figure." -- Publisher
Pearce, Joseph, Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile, ISBN: 9781586174965 1586174967.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
Pelikan, Jaroslav, Bach Among the Theologians, ISBN: 9781597522779 1597522775.
"Pelikan is a truly amazing and articulate thinker. He seems to intuitively know what is important -- whether providing a theological overview of Christian history or, as here, focusing in on a single subject. What I found especially refreshing in BACH AMONG THE THEOLOGIANS is Pelikan's appreciation of Bach as a highly creative man who was truly a man of his own time. He puts to rest (for me anyway) the somewhat artificial argument about the sacred and secular strains in Bach's work. This 'tension' ultimately does not seem to have been as big a deal for Bach as it has become for modern historians, musicians, theologians, etc. Perhaps, because Bach's sense of the sacred was much more encompassing than we highly compartmentalized moderns ever allow it to be. In any case, the fact that so many highly divergent groups want to claim Bach as their own is probably sufficient proof of Bach's transcendent greatness." -- Reader's Comment
Percy, Eustace, John Knox, 1964.
Philip, Robert, The Life and Times of George Whitefield, ISBN: 9780851519609 0851519601.
Pike, G. Holden, The Life and Work of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, ISBN: 085151622X 9780851516226 0851516203 9780851516202. Alternate title: LIFE OF SPURGEON.
"An insightful and warm biography of the 'last of the Puritans' -- the 'Prince of Preachers'." -- GCB
Pilcher, George William, Samuel Davies; Apostle of Dissent in Colonial Virginia, ISBN: 0870491210 9780870491214.
Pink, Arthur W. (1886-1952), Letters of Arthur W. Pink During the Period 1924-1951, ISBN: 0851512623 9780851512624.
"Personal correspondence has a way of revealing much about a person that can not be picked up in their books. That is the value of these letters." -- GCB
Plumer, William S. (1802-1880), and Andrew P. Peabody, Life of William Plumer.
Pollock, John, Wilberforce, ISBN: 0312879423 9780312879426.
"Today Christians are on the front-lines in the battles against abortion, drugs, and pornography. Sometimes they wonder if they can win. Read the story of one brave Englishman who labored long against slavery in the British Empire and won." -- GCB
Potter, William, Beloved Bride: The Letters of Stonewall Jackson to His Wife, ISBN: 1929241631 9781929241637.
"He called her 'my beloved esposa' because Anna was his dearest love on this earth. Ironically, while the great military exploits of General Stonewall Jackson are studied in military schools the world over and his iron will and stern self-discipline have become legendary, little is said about his remarkable marriage. The real Thomas J. Jackson was a humble Christian and loving husband and father. The tender and instructive letters he wrote to his wife Anna are a model of godly leadership and covenantal faithfulness. From their courtship to their final days together, trace the true story of this remarkable couple through the letters of General Jackson to his bride. Even in the midst of the most arduous military campaigns, Stonewall took the time to send home extensive letters of love and devotion. Through all of this, General Jackson proves himself to be a model example for Christian husbands of the twenty-first century -- especially through his dedication to living for God's glory and trusting in His providential care.
"This special edition book features a foreword by Stephen Lang, the actor who portrays 'Stonewall' Jackson in the film 'Gods and Generals.'
"William Potter currently serves as staff historian for the Vision Forum Ministries Faith and Freedom Tours. He holds a B.A. in American History from Cedarville College and a M.A. in American History from the University of Dayton where he taught military history for a time. He and his wife Leslie reside in Charles City, Virginia. They have home schooled their eight children for twenty years." -- Publisher
Pound, Geoff, F.W. Boreham the Public Theologian: The Interplay of Faith and Life in the Newspaper Editorials of F.W. Boreham 1912-1959. "Dissertation (DTheol.) -- Melbourne College of Divinity, 2003. Edition/Format: Thesis/dissertation: Manuscript."
Ravi Zacharia and Ruth Graham stated that F.W. (Frank) Boreham is a favorite author of theirs.
"While F.W. Boreham (1871-1959), became internationally known through his fifty books of sermons and essays, this thesis studies the 3,000 newspaper editorials that he wrote for the Hobart Mercury and the Melbourne Age between 1912 and 1959. His life story, which began in England, developed in New Zealand and concluded in Australia, is sketched to provide the context that shaped Boreham's editorial writing. The calls for a 'public theology' are explored. The second part of the thesis examines Boreham's editorial style. The third part addressed four major themes: 'Realizing full expression,' 'Reverence for nature,' 'The forward thrust of history' and 'Vision for the ordinary." The unifying theme is stated as 'All the blessings of life.' The final part evaluates Boreham's editorial writing and critiques the interplay of theology with his literary themes." -- Abstract, l. viii.
Prange, Gordon W., with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon, God's Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor, ISBN: 0080374409 9780080374406.
Rainy, Robert (1826-1906), and James Mackenzie, Life of William Cunningham, D.D: Principal and Professor of Theology and Church History, New College, Edinburgh, ISBN:0790557975 9780790557977. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"Cunningham (1805-1861), was Principal and Professor of Theology and Church History at New College, Edinburgh, during the mid-1800's. His four volume WORKS include the magisterial two volume set HISTORICAL THEOLOGY, DISCUSSIONS ON CHURCH PRINCIPLES and THE REFORMERS AND THE THEOLOGY OF THE REFORMATION. A volume of his SERMONS is also in print. In Iain Murray's introduction to HISTORICAL THEOLOGY he points out that 'in the days of Cunningham and Bannerman, New College, Edinburgh, rose to be the finest theological college in Europe.' Furthermore, concerning Cunningham's work in the General Assembly of 1832, he writes, 'and once more a young man arose to deliver a historic speech. Like Begg he was a new-comer to the Assembly's debates, but his tall figure and mass of curly hair quickly identified him as "Cunningham of Greenock".'
"When he sat down two hours later there was no mistaking the feeling of the Moderates. 'That's Andrew come back,' exclaimed one! Others were forced to think of young George Gillespie of the 17th century, who, having just arrived in London, in riding boots and with whip still in hand, delivered such a speech in the Westminster Assembly that his opponent, the great Selden, declared: 'This young man, by a single speech, has swept away the learning and labour of my life! . . . Those who heard Cunningham's speech that day,' write his biographers, 'speak of it with wonder to this day. Such power, wealth, and precision of language they had never heard. . . . In his first six years at Edinburgh he read and carefully classified 530 distinct volumes, not to mention pamphlets or magazines.' Cunningham's works are still much sought after today." -- Publisher
*Reid, James, Memoirs of the Westminster Divines, ISBN: 0851513573 9780851513577.
"As far as I am able to judge, the Christian world, since the days of the apostles, had never a synod of more excellent divines than this." -- Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
"The Assembly was called into being by the English Parliament, and convened on July 1, 1643. The result of their deliberations was a CONFESSION OF FAITH and the famous Shorter Catechism. The synod met over a period of several years and comprised the finest church historians, Hebraists, Greek scholars, theologians, and pastors of their time. This book records their activities. It is a fine work and should be read for its intrinsic worth." -- Cyril J. Barber
"First published in 1811, this authoritative work of 756 pages contains biographical sketches of 106 who worked on the historic Westminster Confession of Faith (1646)." -- GCB
Reid, James, Memoirs of the Lives and Writings of Those Eminent Divines who Convened in the Famous Assembly at Westminster, in the Seventeenth Century (1811), vol. 1 of 2.
http://archive.org/details/memoirsofliveswr01reid
Reid, James, Memoirs of the Lives and Writings of Those Eminent Divines who Convened in the Famous Assembly at Westminster, in the Seventeenth Century (1811), vol. 2 of 2.
http://archive.org/details/memoirsoflivesw02reid
*Reid, W. Stanford, Trumpeter of God: A Biography of John Knox, 372 pages, ISBN: 0801077087 9780801077081.
Knox laid the foundation for Presbyterianism and the Covenanted Reformation.
*Richardson, Donald, Eternity in Their Hearts, ISBN: 0830707395 9780830707393.
"Twenty-four exciting stories of how God has prepared people for the Word of the Gospel long before it came to them. Truly God is sovereign and accomplishes His purposes in His own good time. Now available only in paperback." -- GCB
Ridley, Jasper, John Knox, 1968.
"The theory of the justification of revolution is Knox's special contribution to theological and political thought." -- Jasper Ridley
River, Charles (editor), Ulrich Zwingli: The Life and Legacy of the Swiss Reformer who Fought the Catholic Church During the Reformation, e-book.
" 'The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss. I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter's vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him.'-- Ulrich Zwingli
"Meanwhile [March 1522], a band of about a dozen rebellious Christians gathered in a printer's workshop in Grabengasse, Zurich, fully resolved to march to the beat of their own drum. These renegades were intent on broadcasting a message to the corrupt and increasingly dishonorable Catholic Church. The group included: Christoph Froschauer, the proprietor of the printing shop; Hans Oggenfuss, a tailor by trade; Niklaus Hottinger, a shoemaker; Laurenz Hochrutiner, a weaver; and Heinrich Aberli, a baker. All of them had garnered reputations as wayward pro-reform activists campaigning for a return to the old ways of the Scripture and the eradication of faulty interpretations of God's word. Aberli opted to get a start on the protest on Ash Wednesday, just four days prior, by eating a homemade roast in front of a stunned audience at the bakers' guild house. Along with these rebels were two priests: Leo Juda from Alsace and 38-year-old Ulrich Zwingli." -- Publisher
Robbins, John W. (1949-2008), Personal Recollections of Gordon H. Clark, ISBN: 0940931273 9780940931275.
"The title is descriptive, for the book consists of the recollections of some 22 persons who knew Clark. Among these who recall Clark with admiration and love are Carl F.H. Henry, Edmund Clowney, Harold Lindsell, Ronald Nash, John Sanderson, and Ruth Bell Graham. Also for more detailed information, there are recollections from Clark's two daughters, and his sons-in-laws." -- Jay P. Green Sr. (1918-2008)
Robertson, Edwin, Wycliffe: Morning Star of the Reformation, ISBN: 0551011424 9780551011427.
"This short book (125 pages), was written to commemorate and celebrate this famous Bible translator's place in our Christian heritage. Wycliffe was a man burdened for a Gospel for all people and a vision of God's grace being freely available to all." -- GCB
Robertson, James, Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend, ISBN: 0028646851 9780028646855.
"Robertson (JACKSON AND LEE, Rutledge Hill, 1995), has put together an exhaustive account of the life of Stonewall Jackson from his early years as an orphan until his death after being accidentally shot by his own troops. Robertson describes Jackson as 'a man of arms surrounded by the tenets of faith,' and so he was. He was a devout, reticent man who surrendered himself to the will of God. Even the deaths of his first wife and his children and his own agonizingly slow death didn't shake his faith. Yet he was also a great military strategist and stern disciplinarian who inspired great loyalty in his troops. Lee considered him his best general and was shaken by his death. Extensively researched and well written, this compares well with Byron Farwell's masterly STONEWALL: A BIOGRAPHY (LJ 9/1/92). Recommended for Civil War and American history collections." -- Library Journal
"Stonewall Jackson had the most Christian command of anyone in the civil war. He hand picked his commanders, many of whom were either ministers themselves or were ministers' sons. 'Rejoice in that day when they cast out your name as evil,' Christ foretold. I don't think there was ever a more Christ-led soldier that has EVER lived on the face of this earth. Everything Jackson did was accepted by him as God's will. God's will was sought through daily prayer. Thomas Jonathan Jackson's life was a testimony to His great God. He was unassuming in character and dress. He never became arrogant, nor basked in any of his accomplishments, he was simply doing God's will. Anyone would have mistaken Jackson as a simple farmer by his bearing as Robertson reveals from soldiers' written descriptions of him. (What a hothead he was in combat though with all that artillery knowledge inside that Scots-Irish noggin). Who in their last hours would talk about the Amalekites in the Bible and talk about how soldiers ought to observe the sabbath!" -- Reader's Comment
Robinson, Hastings (editor), Original Letters Relative to the English Reformation Written During the Reigns of King Henry VIII., King Edward VI., and Queen Mary: Chiefly From the Archives of Zurich, 1846-47, 2 volumes. Alternate title: THE ZURICH LETTERS, OR THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SEVERAL ENGLISH BISHOPS AND OTHERS, WITH SOME OF THE HELVETIAN REFORMERS, DURING THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, ISBN: 155635049X 9781556350498. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"The greater part of these letters are now printed for the first time: they will be found to contain many details of interest, relative to various proceedings of that period, and occasionally to give much information respecting the customs and manners of the times, as well as the private history of the writers and other individuals to whom they refer. Bucer, Melanchthon, Calvin, Cranmer, Edward VI., Lady Jane Grey, Hooper, Ponet, Bullinger, Foxe, Goodman and a host of others either penned or received these letters. These letters where 'translated from authenticated copies of the autographs'.
"Taken chiefly from the Archives of Zurich, these letters have been translated from authenticated copies of the autographs for the Parker Society. The Parker Society was 'instituted for the publication of the works of the fathers and early writers of the Reformed English Church.' The editor notes that he 'refrains from any remarks upon the various topics treated in these letters; it being his desire, and the object of the Society, that the respective writers should speak for themselves.' Notes are added, however, 'for the purpose of throwing additional light upon the facts and circumstances recorded in the correspondence.' Calvin, Beza, Bullinger, Martyr, Farell, Zanchius, Coverdale, Queen Elizabeth and a host of others either penned or received these letters. Contains an extensive index and table of contents." -- Publisher
Rumburg, H. Rondel, John Pelham of Alabama: The Gallant Chief of J.E.B. Stuart's Horse Artillery, ISBN: 0963973045 9780963973047.
Ryle, J.C. (1816-1900), Light from Old Times, ISBN: 0852341393 9780852341391.
"LIGHT FROM OLD TIMES is basically short biographies/testimonies of some reformers and puritans written by Ryle. There is such a change happening in the millennial generation that have adopted reformed theology. You can see many young people with Spurgeon and Bunyan t-shirts, Calvin coffee mugs and moleskines. But do they know who is on their t-shirt? This is a great book that introduces spiritual giants such as John Wycliffe, John Rogers, Samuel Ward, and Richard Baxter." -- Publisher
Schaeffer, Edith (1914-2013), The Tapestry: The Life and Times of Francis and Edith Schaeffer, ISBN: 0849902843 9780849902840.
"This is the best, most honest biography I have ever read. It's long, due to the fact that Edith admits herself to disliking leaving out the small interesting details that make life what it is. I didn't mind. As I read this book, I felt that I had met a friend and mentor and real human being. I want to be like her, to have half her faith, intelligence, tenacity, and love. Maybe someday." -- Reader's Comment
Schnoebelen, F.W., This is my Life by F.W. Schnoebelen, 59 pages.
*Schuettinger, Robert, Lord Acton: Historian of Liberty, ISBN: 0875482945 9780875482941.
Includes appendix, bibliography, and index.
Sefton, H.R., John Knox, 1993, ISBN: 071520663X 9780715206638.
Sekirin, Peter, The Dostoevsky Archive: Firsthand Accounts of the Novelist From contemporaries' memoirs and rare periodicals, most translated into English for the first time, with a detailed lifetime chronology and annotated bibliography, ISBN: 0786402644 9780786402649.
Sharp, L.W. (editor), Early Letters of Robert Wodrow 1698-1709.
Sheats, Rebecca A., Pierre Viret: The Angel of the Reformation, ISBN: 9780984378517, 0984378510.
"Rebekah Sheats is engaged in translating Viret's writings. Her latest work, THOU SHALT NOT KILL: A PLEA FOR LIFE, is a translation of Viret's commentary on the sixth commandment. Other translations include LETTERS OF COMFORT TO THE PERSECUTED CHURCH, THE CHRISTIAN AND THE MAGISTRATE: ROLES, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND JURISDICTIONS, and SIMPLE EXPOSITION OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.
"Rebekah is grateful for the godly home education she received, and has designed several curricula to assist parents in the education of their children, including Biblical Greek and Biblical Hebrew for Children (Psalm 78 Ministries)." -- Publisher
Silverman, Kenneth, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, ISBN: 1566492068 9781566492065.
"Kenneth Silverman's THE LIFE AND TIMES OF COTTON MATHER is quite simply a stunning work of early colonial history and biography; he delves deeply into age-old diaries, hymnals, political documentation, to a whole pool of sources, and he makes them come to vivid life by his crisp and tight writing style. He brings a bygone era and all its conceivable joys, sufferings and anger to the forefront, illustrating with scholarly and literary certitude that the problems of our times have not differed in any extremity to previous generations. The evolution just becomes more pronounced. In THE LIFE AND TIMES OF COTTON MATHER, readers will be exposed to wharves, perriwigs, flickering candles and towering Congregational steeples that loom over a fledging city trying to form its own identity, history and truth. The book is a resounding achievement." -- Reader's Comment
Skoglund, Elizabeth R., Amma: The Life and Words of Amy Carmichael, ISBN: 0801083834 9780801083839.
"The books and poems of Amy Carmichael have been a great inspiration to me through the years. . . . However, I never fully appreciated the person behind these profound and incisive thoughts until I read Elizabeth Skoglunds remarkable book AMMA: THE LIFE AND WORDS OF AMY CARMICHAEL. The author, an outstanding counselor and distinguished writer, presses her own sensitive and responsive heart next to Amys, and the result is a book dealing with the crucial issues of life today. You will meet the real Amy Carmichael and her words will give you courage and strength in suffering, pain, discouragement, spiritual burn-out, and most important of all, in how to maintain a vital trust relationship with the Lord as you live and work for Him by His power. This book will move you deeply. You will keep it close at hand and reread it often. Its crammed full of authentic hope, true comfort, and powerful inspiration." -- Reader's Comment
Smellie, Alexander (1857-1923), Robert Murray McCheyne, ISBN: 1857921844 9781857921847.
Smith, Henry (1550-1600), and Thomas Fuller (1608-1661), The Works of Henry Smith: Including Sermons, Treatises, Prayers, and Poems: With Life of the Author, 2 volumes.
Smith, John, Our Scottish Clergy; Fifty-two Sketches, 1848.
Smith, Thomas (of Glasgow), Select Memoirs of the Lives, Labours, and Sufferings of Those Pious and Learned English and Scottish Divines: Who Greatly Distinguished Themselves in Promoting the Reformation From Popery, in Translating the Bible, and in Promulgating its Salutary Doctrines by Their Numerous Evangelical Writings, and who Ultimately Crowned the Venerable Edifice With the Celebrated Westminster Confession of Faith, 1828. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #2, and #16.
Snoddy, Thomas G., Sir John Scot [Scott], Lord Scotstarvit [Scotstarvet or Scotstarver]: His Life and Times, 1968, ISBN: 0900897015 9780900897016.
"He was one of many Scottish lawyers and lairds who accepted the covenant, which he subscribed at his parish kirk of Ceres, Fife on 30 April 1638."
Sprunger, Keith L., The Learned Doctor William Ames; Dutch Backgrounds of English and American Puritanism, ISBN: 0252002334 9780252002335.
Spurgeon, C.H. (1834-1892), Susannah Spurgeon, and Joseph Harrald, C.H. Spurgeon Autobiography, 2 volumes, ISBN: 0851510760 9780851510767 0851511821 9780851511825.
Volume 1: THE EARLY YEARS.
Volume 2: THE FULL HARVEST, 1860-1892
"This long-awaited companion volume to THE EARTH YEARS (1962) will stimulate, encourage, and edify those presently engaged in a pastoral ministry and challenge those who are preparing for it. . . ." -- Cyril J. Barber
*Stalker, James, John Knox: His Ideas and Ideals. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #1.
"Published the year before the Quatercentenary 'of the birth of the greatest of Scotsmen,' as Stalker calls Knox, this is an easy-reading look at this great Reformer. Expressing great gratitude for David Laing's 'immortal labours' in editing Knox's Works, and humbly directing the reader to these six volumes 'if he desires to see Knox face to face,' Stalker summarizes his intent, stating, 'I do not pretend to have given a complete collection of Knox's good things; but at least I have creamed them and furnished enough to familiarize the reader not only with his ideas but with the remarkable phraseology in which these were expressed; and my hope is that the following pages may help to make it true that he, being dead, yet speaketh.' For the bibliophiles this item contains a nice chapter summarizing Knox's books and letters." -- Publisher
Stanley, Henry M., Livingston of Africa, two volumes.
Said to be the best biography of Livingston.
"From the personal narrative of David Livingstone . . . together with the . . . results of the Herald Stanley Expedition, as furnished by H.M. Stanley . . . With . . . engravings."
Staughton, S., A Selection of Remarkable Events in the Lives of the Primitive Fathers, Eminent Reformers, and Martyrs, in the Christian Church, Coventry, 1791.
Steer, Roger, Hudson Taylor [1832-1905]: Lesson in Discipleship.
Steer, Roger, J. Hudson Taylor: A man in Christ, ISBN: 9971972867 9789971972868 9971972875 9789971972875.
Stevenson, Andrew, The Banished Minister; or, Scenes in the Life of Thomas Hog of Kiltearn (1654-1692), 1872.
Stevenson, David (b. 1942), The Hunt for Rob Roy: The man and the Myths, ISBN: 0859765903 9780859765909.
"Rob Roy bears a name that is well known internationally through the heroic images created for him by tradition, by Sir Walter Scott and by Hollywood, yet no scholarly biography of his has been written. This radical revision of popular views on Rob Roy is based on recently discovered material." -- Publisher
Taylor, Howard (1862-1946), Hudson Taylor [1832-1905], and the China Inland Mission: The Growth of a Work of God.
Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission: The Growth of a Work of God (1918)
http://archive.org/details/hudsontaylorchin00tayl
Taylor, Howard (1862-1946), Mary Geraldine Guinness Taylor, and D.E. Hoste, Hudson Taylor [1832-1905], in Early Years: The Growth of a Soul, 511 pages, ISBN: 9971972638 9789971972639 9971972646 9789971972646. A Christian classic.
Hudson Taylor in Early Years: The Growth of a Soul (1923)
http://archive.org/details/hudsontaylorinea00tayluoft
Ten Boom, Corrie, Corrie Ten Boom, her Story, ISBN: 9780884861263 0884861260.
"A collection of Corrie ten Boom's bestselling biographies includes THE HIDING PLACE, TRAMP FOR THE LORD, and JESUS IS VICTOR, and outlines her lifetime devotion to religious service." -- Publisher
Tomkins, Stephen, John Wesley: A Biography, ISBN: 0802824994 9780802824998,
"The life and work of John Wesley (1703-1791) have had an enormous influence on modern Christianity, including his role as founding father of the Methodists, now 33 million strong worldwide. In this lively biography journalist Stephen Tomkins narrates the story of Wesley's colorful and dramatic life for a new generation.
"Tomkins follows Wesley from his childhood at Epworth rectory through his schooling and university career at Oxford to his mission to Georgia, his 'conversion' in 1738, and finally his life as a religious leader in England. Preaching in numerous villages, towns, and cities, Wesley and his followers faced intense and savage persecution, but their missions were also accompanied by extraordinary phenomena such as convulsions, laughter, and healings. In the course of his compelling narrative Tomkins examines Wesley's relationships with key people in his life, including his powerful and austere mother, Susanna, and his hymn-writing brother, Charles. Tomkins also explores key issues in Wesley's life, such as his renunciation of wealth and his attitude toward women, concluding with an assessment of Wesley's ongoing influence both in his own country and abroad." -- Publisher
Toon, Peter, God's Statesman: The Life and Work of John Owen, ISBN: 0853641331 9780853641339.
"A brilliant biography of one of the important political and ecclesiastical figures of the Puritan era." -- Cyril J. Barber
Toplady, Augustus (1740-1778), A Memoir of Some Principal Circumstances in the Life and Death of the Reverend and Learned Augustus Montague Toplady . . . to which are added, written by himself, The dying believer's address to his soul, and his own last will and testament. The second edition.
Tucker, Ruth A., and Walter Liefeld, Daughters of the Church: Women and Ministry From New Testament Times to the Present, ISBN: 0310457416 9780310457411.
"Rich in historical events and colorfully written, this fascinating account of women in the church spans nearly two thousand years of church history. It tells of events and aspirations, determination and disappointment, patience and achievement that mark the history of daughters of the church from the time of Jesus to the present. The authors have endeavored to present an objective story. The very fact that readers may find themselves surprised now and again by the prominent role of women in certain events and movements proves an inequality that historical narrative has often been guilty of. This is a book about women. It is a setting straight off the record -- a restoring of balance to history that has repeatedly played down the significance of the contributions of women to the theology, the witness, the movements, and the growth of the church. An exegetical study of relevant Scripture passages offers stimulating thought for discussion and for serious reevaluation of historical givens. This volume is enriched by pictures, appendixes, bibliography, and indexes. Like many of the women whose stories it tells, this book has a subdued strength that should not be underestimated." -- Publisher
Tweedie, W.K., Scottish Puritans: Select Biographies, 2 volumes, ISBN: 9781848710160 184871016X 9780851519692 0851519695 0851519709 9780851519708.
"A magnificent two-volume set, calculated to stir the soul and to find a place of honour and affection in every Christian who loves to read the thrilling history of the Scottish church!" -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Tyerman, Luke, Life of the Reverend George Whitefield, 2 volumes, ISBN: 0964755203 9780964755208 0964755211 9780964755215 0964755203.
Tyerman was also a biographer of John Wesley.
George Whitefield, Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Whitefield
Ussher, James, and Don Kistler, The Puritan Pulpit: The Irish Puritans, ISBN: 1567690742 9781567690743.
Van Halsema, Thea B., This was John Calvin.
Vandenberg, Frank, Abraham Kuyper, 1837-1920, ISBN: 0888150156 9780888150158.
"This book is not fine literature, not nearly worthy of such a great Christian as Abraham Kuyper. Still, it is worth reading just for the lift in your spirit that it will bring when you see how the man was blessed. It might be added that his predictions regarding how the Gospel would be spread after his death have been amazingly accurate." -- Jay P. Green, Sr. (1918-2008)
H. Henry Meeter is the leading American exponent of Abraham Kuyper's life and world view.
*Varghese, Roy Abraham (editor), The Intellectuals Speak out About God: A Handbook for the Christian Student in a Secular Society, ISBN: 0895268272 9780895268273.
"This book reaffirms the need for character, personal integrity, spiritual depth, and moral standards that are essential if education is to remain viable . . . The essays that make up this book are stimulating, and it is a work that can be heartily recommended." -- Cyril J. Barber
Vision Video, The Better Hour: The Legacy of William Wilberforce, DVD (Vision Video, March 18, 2008), ISBN: 0793694124 9780793694129, 60 minutes.
A new documentary about William Wilberforce, subject of the film "Amazing Grace."
" 'The Better Hour' is the story of a man who, inspired by faith, used his political and social influence to change the world for the better. At the beginning of the 19th century, almost a third of the British economy depended on the trade of human beings. William Wilberforce was determined to end this horrific practice, by persuading both Parliament and British society to abolish slavery in the British Empire.
"Once, everyone knew the name William Wilberforce. Frederick Douglas said, 'Let no man forget the name of William Wilberforce.' A quarter century after Wilberforce's death, Abraham Lincoln said, 'Every school boy knows the name of William Wilberforce.' Yet 'few Americans today understand why, or even know Wilberforce's name,' explains 'The Better Hour' executive producer Cullen Schippe.
"Shot in high definition, 'The Better Hour: The Legacy Of William Wilberforce' is an engaging documentary, rich with content and commentary, that can inspire people with the remarkable story of William Wilberforce. He used his position as a British parliamentarian to launch 69 organizations for the betterment of society and end the trans-Atlantic slave trade -- a business that was key to the country's economic strength.
"The film focuses on a politician who, over time, developed strength of character in the service of high and seemingly unattainable goals. This film highlights William Wilberforce's drive and love for humanity and reveals how he and his colleagues worked tirelessly to end the slave trade, even as it represented a large portion of the British economy. In Wilberforce, we see character and a sense of justice for all join together to bring into the world what the English poet William Cowper described as 'the better hour'." -- Publisher
Vision Video, Roger Rees, Ben Steed, and Tony Tew, God's Outlaw: The Story of William Tyndale, DVD.
Walden Media, Amazing Grace, DVD, 111 minutes.
"Every song has its story. Every generation has its hero.
"Amazing Grace, based on the life of antislavery pioneer William Wilberforce, is directed by Michael Apted (The World is Not Enough, Coal Miner's Daughter), from an original screenplay written by Academy Award nominee Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things).
"Ioan Gruffudd plays Wilberforce, who, as a Member of Parliament, navigated the world of 18th century back-room politics to end the slave trade in the British Empire. Albert Finney plays John Newton, a confidante of Wilberforce who inspires him to pursue a life of service to humanity. Benedict Cumberbatch is William Pitt the Younger, England's youngest ever Prime Minister at the age of 24, who encourages his friend Wilberforce to take up the fight to outlaw slavery and supports him in his struggles in Parliament.
"Elected to the House of Commons at the age of 21, and on his way to a successful political career, Wilberforce, over the course of two decades, took on the English establishment and persuaded those in power to end the inhumane trade of slavery.
"Romola Garai plays Barbara Spooner, a beautiful and headstrong young woman who shares Wilberforce's passion for reform, and who becomes his wife after a whirlwind courtship. Youssou N'Dour is Olaudah Equiano. Born in Africa and sent as a slave to the Colonies, Equiano bought his freedom and made his home in London, where he wrote a bestselling account of his life and became a leading figure in the fight to end the slavery of his fellow countrymen.
"Special Features: | Audio commentary with Director Michael Apted and Ioan Gruffudd | How Sweet the Sound: The Story of Amazing Grace -- this half-hour documentary provides an in-depth look at the making of the film and the story's relevance to today | Finding Freedom featurette -- A tour of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center providing factual information about modern-day slavery practices. | Interactive Discussion Tools and Study Guides -- The discussion guides provide thought-provoking questions that can be printed out for use in classrooms or bible study groups. | Music video of Grammy Nominee Chris Tomlin's version of Amazing Grace.
"Read our exclusive interview with Producer Bob Beltz." -- Publisher
Wells, William V., The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams, 3 volumes, ISBN: 0836950321 9780836950328.
Whitefield, George (1714-1770), George Whitefield's Journals, ISBN: 0851511473 9780851511474.
George Whitefield's Journals Project -- to publish a complete edition of Whitefield's Journals
http://www.quintapress.com/whitefieldjournals.html
*Whitefield, George (1714-1770), George Whitefield's Letters: A Facsimile of Whitefield's Works, Volume 1, 1771, With Supplements (Carlisle, PA: The Banner of Truth Trust), ISBN: 0851512399 9780851512396.
"Contains the original work plus 34 letters omitted from the 1771 edition plus explanatory notes by S.M. Houghton." -- GCB
*Whyte, Alexander (1836-1921), Whyte's Bible Characters, 2 volumes.
Wilder-Smith, A.E., and Beate Wilder Smith, Fulfilled Journey: The Wilder-Smith Memoirs, ISBN: 0936728752 9780936728759.
Wileman, William, John Calvin: His Life, his Teaching, and his Influence.
Both juvenile and adult reading. Available in THE COMPLETE JOHN CALVIN COLLECTION offered by Ages Software (now defunct).
"The following pages contain an attempt to set forth in a readable and attractive form the principal features of a great life.
"While thus recording facts, the aim of the writer has been to give an honest and impartial view of those living truths of God that are commonly associated with the name of Calvin.
"He has also kept in view a desire to write what should be worthy of the attention of our young people, who are warmly invited to read what God did in days of old. -- Preface
Willard, Joseph, Memoir of Rev. Samuel Willard, M.A., Vice-President of Harvard University.
Wilson, Howard McKnight, The Tinkling Spring: Headwater of Freedom. A Study of the Church and her People, 1732-1952,
Wolff, Christoph, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, ISBN: 039304825X 9780393048254 0393047202 9780393047202 0393322564 9780393322569.
"Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, written by the leading Bach scholar of our age.
"Although we have heard the music of J.S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship. Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between the composer's life and his music, showing how Bach's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher. And throughout, we see Bach in the broader context of his time: its institutions, traditions, and influences. With this highly readable book, Wolff sets a new standard for Bach biography. 'A monumental work that must find its way into the library of every musician and every dedicated lover of music.' -- Isaac Stern
"Christoph Wolff, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is the Adams University Professor at Harvard University and one of the world's foremost experts on Bach and Mozart. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts." - Publisher
Woodbridge, John (editor) Great Leaders of the Christian Church, ISBN: 0802490514 9780802490513.
Woods, David Walker, John Witherspoon, ISBN: 9781432672799 1432672797.
"A republic once equally poised must either preserve its virtue or lose its liberty. . . . He is the best friend of American liberty who is most sincere and active in promoting pure and undefiled religion." -- John Witherspoon
"John Witherspoon, a Presbyterian minister and president of what is now Princeton University, was the only pastor to sign the Declaration of Independence." -- Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984)
Wook, Douglas, C., The Evangelical Doctor: John Wycliffe and the Lollards, ISBN: 0852341881 9780852341889.
"Wycliffe was the man that God raised up to pave the way for the English Reformation. He completed the first ever English translation of the Bible. He fought against ignorance, superstition, priestcraft, and immorality. An inspiring biographical portrait." -- GCB
Wylie, Samuel B. (1773-1852), and John Niel McLeod, Memoir of Alexander McLeod, D.D.
Wyncoll, Hannah, Wonders of Grace, ISBN: 1908919744 9781908919748.
"Drawn from the early years of Spurgeon's remarkable London ministry, these 138 testimonies of conversion form part of an archive of some 15,000 such accounts at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. Here is a powerful reaffirmation of the transforming power of the Gospel in individual lives. Also provides insights into the signs of conversion looked for by the elders, and the questions put to converts. Here too is a fascinating glimpse into life in Victorian London, with accounts of servants, crossing sweepers, hatters and factory workers, artisans and middle class converts, brimming with social interest. Illustrated with facsimile pages of notes by C.H. Spurgeon and elders, and photographs of London life at that time." -- Publisher
Zacharias, Ravi K. (1946-2020), and Scott Sawyer, Walking From East to West: God in the Shadows, ISBN: 0310259150 9780310259152.
"Born in India in 1946, Ravi's life was filled with uncertainty and lack of purpose. Today he travels around the world speaking to governments, Ivy League universities, and on the radio. His message is that of certainty and hope in Christ. Firmly believing that the Christian faith is grounded in absolute truth, he has written/co-written over twenty books as he shares through philosophy, apologetics, and theology. How did he make this transformation? WALKING FROM EAST TO WEST; GOD IN THE SHADOWS is his story. He writes of his family background, what it meant to be Indian, how he ended up in Canada, met the woman who became his wife and mother of their three children, and how God brought him into ministry." -- Publisher
See also: Biography of covenanters, Biography of Bible characters, Biography of christian women, Correspondence containing biblical counsel, The covenanted reformation of scotland background and history, Local church history, The history of martyrs, Case studies, Testimonies, Christian fiction, and so forth, and so on.
Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul
The Heroes of Faith, A.W. Pink (1886-1952)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Languet
"I Love him Like a Brother:" Remembering Cliff Barrows, Billy Graham's Longtime Music Leader and Friend, Kristy Etheridge, November 15, 2016
https://billygraham.org/story/i-love-him-like-a-brother-remembering-cliff-barrows-billy-grahams-longtime-music-leader-and-friend/
The Life of A.W. Pink (1886-1952), Tom Sullivan
https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=63202146244293&fbclid=IwAR2RQYvHOB18kqOcTPiWvEwr3io8zAlvsePxRs4CWbU2AXn3vY3cjrQZde4
The Life of John Owen by Andrew Thomson, by Andrew Thomson
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/ipb-e/epl-owbiog.html
The Life and Ministry of Richard Baxter, Lynell Friesen
http://reformedperspectives.org/newfiles/lyn_friesen/CH.Friesen.Baxter.1.pdf
The Lord Will Perfect That Which Concerneth me: The Work of Rousas John Rushdoony
Michael McVicar, November 09, 2010
A scholar's overview of the life and philosophy of R.J. Rushdoony.
https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/the-lord-will-perfect-that-which-concerneth-me-the-work-of-rousas-john-rushdoony#fbclid=IwAR3xbOJZ_1QY67QIktZ2ejiCajNnSFGrEyKEOAzBsDc-31V1QNytCN2ZX8w
Memoirs of the Puritans, John Preston, The Life and Death of Mr. John Preston.
http://www.apuritansmind.com/MemoirsPuritans/MemoirsPuritansJohnPreston.htm
Philippe Duplessis-Mornay (1549-1623)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_de_Mornay
Benjamin M. Palmer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_M._Palmer
The Works of Benjamin Morgan Palmer
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Palmer%2c%20B%2e%20M%2e%20%28Benjamin%20Morgan%29%2c%201818%2d1902
Mary Slessor -- Missionary to Nigeria, [audio file], Peter Hammond
"On one occasion as a woman was spread-eagled on the ground to have boiling oil poured on her, Mary boldly intervened and physically prevented the witch doctor from harming his victim.
"The people were astounded at her courage in confronting chiefs and witch doctors, and that she survived! They concluded that it was the power of her God which protected her."
https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=2261971738284
Mary Slessor
https://vimeo.com/channels/1483608/319679270
Mary Slessor
https://www.slideshare.net/frontfel/presentations/11
Mary Slessor
https://www.frontlinemissionsa.org/missions/mary-slessor-missionary-to-nigeria
The Story and the Song: A Tribute to Cliff Barrows
"Cliff Barrows served beside my father Billy Graham as his Crusade choir director and much more for over 60 years. He was probably my father's closest friend. Our family knew him as 'Uncle Cliff.' Boy, did that man know how to pray -- I loved to hear him pray to the God he loved and served." -- Franklin Graham
"The man who got the world to sing, "This is my story, this is my song," is now face to face with the One whose story he sang around the world. Cliff Barrows, Billy Graham's song leader, died at the age of 93, having lived a life of preaching and music, the likes of which very few have lived.
"Cliff was a dear and treasured friend, and I will really miss him. I penned this tribute." -- Ravi Zacharias
http://rzim.org/global-blog/the-story-and-the-song-a-tribute-to-cliff-barrows/
WorldCat.org Subject Listing for "su:Christian Women Biography"
http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=su%3AChristian+women+Biography.&qt=hot_subject
You are What you Read, Frontline Fellowship
"Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies." -- A.W. Tozer
"The reading of good biography forms an important part of a Christian's education. It provides him with numberless illustrations for use in his own service. He learns to assess the true worth of character, to glimpse a work goal for his own life, to decide how best to attain it, what self-denial is needed to curb unworthy aspirations, and all the time he learns how God breaks into the dedicated life to bring about His own purposes." -- Ransome W. Cooper
"Biography transmits personality -- who can gauge the inspiration to the cause of missions of great biographies like those of William Carey, Adoniran Judson, Hudson Taylor, Charles Studd
." -- J. Oswald Sanders
https://www.slideshare.net/frontfel/you-are-what-you-read-70851777
*Blaikie, William G., Heroes of Israel, ISBN: 021748378X 9780217483780.
"Limited to a discussion of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and Moses. A helpful aid when preaching on Bible characters." -- Cyril J. Barber
Candlish, Robert S., Scripture Characters.
*Conybeare, William J., and John Saul Howson, The Life and Epistles of Paul, ISBN: 080288086X 9780802880864.
"Excellent background material on the life of the Apostle Paul, coupled with a valiant attempt to fit the events of the book of Acts and the epistles into a chronological framework. First published more than a century ago (1852), but still worth consulting." -- Cyril J. Barber
*Cox, Samuel, The Private Letters of St. Paul and St. John.
"Such exposition as this adds interest to the epistles [to Philemon, and of John II and III], [2 John and 3 John], and makes their writers live again before our eyes." -- C.H. Spurgeon
*Cunningham, William (1805-1861), John Calvin. Available in THE REFORMERS AND THE THEOLOGY OF THE REFORMATION. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #17.
"As Cunningham states, 'John Calvin was by far the greatest of the Reformers with respect to the talents he possessed, the influence he exerted, and the services he rendered in the establishment and diffusion of important truth.' Here we have a succinct account of Calvin's works and the leading principles that he maintained. Calvin is without a doubt one of the great men in all of human history, and as he often pointed out, he owed everything to the Lord Jesus Christ -- all his talents, all his influence, his very salvation, etc. -- for that is the nature of 'Calvinism,' giving God all the glory!" -- Publisher
Cunningham, William (1805-1861), James Buchanan, and James Bannerman, The Reformers and the Theology of the Reformation.
*Edersheim, Alfred, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah. A Christian classic.
"The most important general work on the life of Christ in our language." -- Wilbur M. Smith
"From his prodigious study he produced an unrivaled picture of the life of Christ and of the whole Jewish background -- not merely of the archaeological details, but of the essential characteristics of Jewish thought and feeling. It is today the most extensively used life of Christ in the English language." -- Publisher
The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, by Alfred Edersheim
http://www.ccel.org/e/edersheim/lifetimes/
Fairbairn, Patrick (1805-1874), Jonah: His Life, Character, and Mission Viewed in Connexion With the Prophet's own Times and Future Manifestations of God's Mind and Will in Prophecy, ISBN: 0837098629 9780837098623. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
*Farrar, F.W., The Life and Work of St. Paul, 2 volumes, ISBN: 0865240558 9780865240551.
"Long out of print, these volumes constitute a priceless asset to the preacher who possesses and uses them aright. Includes valuable excursions on special topics ranging from the 'man of sin' to traditional accounts of Paul's personal appearance." -- Cyril J. Barber
*Gloag, Paton, J., The Life of St. John.
"A brief resume of material enlarged upon in the writer's INTRODUCTION TO THE JOHANNINE WRITINGS." -- Cyril J. Barber
*Hamilton, James, Moses, the Man of God, ISBN: 0865241708 9780865241701.
"Highly recommended by C.H., Spurgeon in COMMENTING AND COMMENTARIES, this work deserves a place on the bookshelf of every pastor." -- Cyril J. Barber
*Harris, James Rendel, The Twelve Apostles.
"A scholarly study of the identity of the Apostles of Christ." -- Cyril J. Barber
Kaynor, Keith, When God Chooses: The Life of David, ISBN: 0872271269 9780872271265.
*Kirk, Thomas, The Life of Joseph, ISBN: 0865241937 9780865241930.
"Of utmost value for the pastor who preaches on Bible characters." -- Cyril J. Barber
*Kirk, Thomas, Samson: His Life and Work.
"Six moving messages based upon Judges 13-16. Well reasoned, deeply devotional, and true to the Scriptures." -- Cyril J. Barber
*Kirk, Thomas, Saul: The First King of Israel.
"Postmortem of a king. Devotional and perceptive -- Cyril J. Barber
*Kirk, Thomas, Solomon: His Life and Works.
*Krummacher, Fredrick W., and M.G. Easton (translator), David: The King of Israel, ISBN: 0865241422 9780865241428.
"Presents the life of David from his obscure roots in a village in Judah to his leadership as Israel's King. While the book makes no pretense at originality, preachers will find it permeated with rich homiletic ideas." -- Cyril J. Barber
*Kuyper, Abraham, Women of the New Testament: 30 Devotional Messages for Women's Groups, ISBN: 0310367514.
"There are thirty devotional messages, each one on a different woman mentioned in the Scriptures. Kuyper was first a theologian, and then prime minister of Holland, and with this broad experience in both Biblical lore, and in the world of people, he brings inspiring messages for the women of our day. They could be used for personal devotions, or for group study. It is an enduring book worth the price." -- Jay P. Green, Sr. (1918-2008)
*Kuyper, Abraham, Women of the Old Testament, ISBN: 0310367611 9780310367611.
"Fifty character studies with study questions." -- Publisher
*La Sor, William Sanford, Great Personalities of the Bible, ISBN: 1565633016 9781565633018.
"Formerly published in two volumes. Eighteen studies from each testament survey the background of the personalities, assess their strengths and weaknesses, and draw lessons for life today from their experiences." -- Cyril J. Barber
Lawson, George (1749-1820), and Henry Belfrage, Discourses on the History of David and on the Introduction of Christianity Into Britain.
*Lawson, George (1749-1820), Lectures on the History of Joseph.
Lawson, James R., The Character of Joseph; or, The Young Man's Model: An Address, Delivered Before the Saint John Young Men's Christian Association, on Thursday Evening, 20th March, 1856, ISBN: 0665480490 9780665480492.
*Macartney, Clarence E.N., Of Them He Chose Twelve, ISBN: 0825432707.
"Indispensable studies of the Apostles." -- Cyril J. Barber
*Macartney, Clarence E.N., Trials of Great men of the Bible, ISBN: 1430474920.
"Covers material from Job to Paul. Shows the place and purpose of trials in the development of Christian character." -- Cyril J. Barber
Martin, Hugh (editor, 1822-1885), Christian Social Reformers of the Nineteenth Century, ISBN: 0836915267 9780836915266.
Martin, Hugh (1822-1885), Simon Peter, ISBN: 0851514278.
"Martin (1822-1885), first presented this material in 1869. While telling us about Peter we also learn about the various phases of Christian faith and life." -- GCB
*Meyer, F.B., Great men of the Bible, ISBN: 0720823846 9780720823844.
"When you study Bible characters, you begin to see how God works in people to will and to act according to his good purpose -- despite their flaws, failures, and flops! Meyer's classic study examines the lives of a dozen great men from the Old and New Testaments: Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, Samuel, David, Elijah, Jeremiah, John the Baptist, Peter, and Paul. Excellent reading for preachers and laypeople!" -- CBD
*Pink, Arthur W. (1886-1952), Life of David, 2 volumes, ISBN: 0801070619.
"It is by far the most and the best you can find on this section of the Bible. The many facets of David's devotion and service, his sad lapse, and his recovery all handled reverently and with great respect by Pink. The sweet singer of Israel will loom larger in your mind once you have digested these pages. Pink was never better, nor sweeter." -- Jay P. Green, Sr. (1918-2008)
"Shepherd, soldier, musician, king, adulterer, father -- David was most of all a man after God's own heart. Pink's unusual combination of biography, commentary, and devotional studies gives you an intimate view of David's many sides. Each of Pink's 145 chapters is short and to the point, so you can easily gather excellent material for a lesson, sermon, or simply your own personal study. . . ." -- CBD
*Pink, Arthur W. (1886-1952), The Life of Elijah, ISBN: 9781787200456 1787200450.
"This is the third of Pink's excellent Scripture biographies. It is a verse-by-verse exposition of 2 Kings 10-13. He rescues Elisha from the historical heap, and makes him stand out as a prophet worthy of the utmost praise, one who bore the mantle of Elijah with much distinction." -- Jay P. Green, Sr. (1918-2008)
*Seeking, Herbert S., The Men of the Pauline Circle.
"Deals first with the distinguished members of Paul's company, then those who were obscure, thirdly with the officials whom he contacted during his ministry, and lastly with the unrecorded. A suggestive work." -- Cyril J. Barber
*Taylor, William M., Joseph the Prime Minister, ISBN: 1898787247 9781898787242.
"Dynamic and inspiring messages by a former Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale and L.P. Stone lecturer at Princeton. Originally published in 1886." -- Cyril J. Barber
*Taylor, William M., Paul the Missionary, ISBN: 1150469889 9781150469886.
"Popular messages that deserve serious study. Reprinted from the 1909 edition." -- Cyril J. Barber
*Taylor, William M., Peter the Apostle, ISBN: 1176433954 9781176433953.
"An excellent biographical study." -- Cyril J. Barber
*Thomas, William Henry Griffith, The Apostle Peter: Outline Studies in his Life, Character and Writings, ISBN: 0825438233 9780825438233.
"Drawing heavily upon Peter's natural characteristics, the writer shows how these were transformed by the Holy Spirit. A timely, devotional study." -- Cyril J. Barber
*Whyte, Alexander (1836-1921), Bible Characters From the new Testament, 2 volumes.
*Whyte, Alexander (1836-1921), Bible Characters From the old and new Testament, ISBN: 0825439817 9780825439810 0825439809 9780825439803.
"For the study of Bible biographies you should secure a marvelous series by Alexander Whyte, one of the greatest preachers in the world of a generation ago, simply called BIBLE CHARACTERS. No one has analyzed these characters so vividly and penetratingly as Whyte. Every page is edifying and suggestive." -- Wilbur M. Smith
Vander Velde, Frances, Women of the Bible, ISBN: 0825439647 9780825439643.
See also: Guides to commentaries, and so forth, and so on.
TCRB5: 356,357,4289-4300,4300a
"Had I taught men's doctrine, I had gotten great thanks by men; but for the Word's sake and the true Gospel, which was given to me by the grace of God, I suffer this day by men, not sorrowfully, but with a glad heart and mind." -- George Wishart (1513-1546), while fixed to a stake moments before being burned alive.
Abbott, Angus Evan, The Scottish Covenanters.
Aiton, J., The Life and Times of Alexander Henderson, Giving a History of the Second Reformation of the Church of Scotland, and of the Covenanters, During the Reign of Charles I, 1836.
The Life and Times of Alexander Henderson: Giving a History of the Second Reformation of the Church of Scotland, and of the Covenanters, During the Reign of Charles I
http://books.google.com/books?id=fEIRAAAAIAAJ&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html
Alexander, Archibald (1772-1851), Biographical Sketches of the Founder and Principal Alumni of the Log College: Together With an Account of the Revivals of Religion Under Their Ministry, ISBN: 0851510043 9780851510040. Alternate title: THE LOG COLLEGE: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF WILLIAM TENNENT AND HIS STUDENTS.
Biographical Sketches of the Founder and Principal Alumni of the Log College
http://archive.org/details/biographicalske00alexgoog
*Anderson, James (1748?-1830), Ladies of the Covenant, 1851. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #10.
"Memoirs of distinguished Scottish female characters, embracing the period of the covenant and the persecution. The introduction notes the importance of the lives of these courageous women, when it states: 'They have especially by the magnanimity with which they suffered in the cause of truth, emphatically taught us the important principle that we are in all things and at all times to do what is right; and as to the disapprobation, opposition, and persecution of men, in whatever way manifested, or to whatever extent, we are to let that take its chance, a principle, the importance of which it is difficult to over-estimate; which lies at the foundation of all that is great and good in character; which has enabled the greatest and the best men, by the blessing of God, to achieve the great purposes they have formed for advancing the highest interests of mankind, and upon which it is necessary for the good soldier of Christ to act in every age, in an age in which the church enjoys tranquility, as well as when she suffers persecution.' Samuel Rutherford's (and others), correspondence with these exceptional Christian women is noted throughout. This is 494 pages of soul-stirring history!" -- Publisher
Ladies of the Covenant: Memoirs of Distinguished Scottish Female Characters, by Rev. James Anderson
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/ladies/
Ladies of the Covenant
" 'Ladies of the Covenant' is dedicated to those women who weathered the storms of persecution during the killing times of the Scottish Reformation, and who by their example and glorious witness for Jesus Christ, still inspire hearts today.
"There is no finer example of Biblical womanhood than 'The Ladies of the Covenant'." -- Angela Wittman, editor
http://ladiesofthecovenant.blogspot.com/
*Anderson, William, The Voice of Renwick, The Last of the Scottish Martyrs, 1882. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"A rare work setting forth the stirring story of the young minister and martyr James Renwick. It explains the main points (of Covenanted Reformation), for which he and many other Covenanters suffered and died. Also makes practical applications which can be applied to today." -- Publisher
Anonymous, An Account of the Remarkable Life and Death of the Reverend Mr. Alexander Peden: Late Minister of the Gospel at New Glenluce in Galloway, in Scotland. Who died January 28, 1686, About Sixty Years of Age. Singular for Piety, Zeal and Faithfulness; But especially, who exceeded all to be heard of in our late Ages, in that Gift of foreseeing of Events, and foretelling what was to befal the Churches and Nations of Scotland and Ireland, particular Familes and Persons, and of his own Life and Death. Alternate title: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE REVEREND MR. ALEXANDER PEDEN WHO DIED JANUARY 28, 1686, ABOUT SIXTY YEARS OF AGE.
Beaton, D., Scottish Heroines of the Faith: Being Brief Sketches of Noble Women of the Reformation and Covenant Times.
*Beza, Theodore (1519-1605), The Life of John Calvin. A Christian classic. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"Beza was Calvin's friend, student, and successor at Geneva. As an eye-witness to Calvin's conduct and an intimate friend, this work (of 100 pages), of necessity retains a special quality that other treatments of Calvin's life will lack. Notwithstanding, the best modern treatment of Calvin's views and work is found in Carlos Eire's (a Roman Catholic author), WAR AGAINST THE IDOLS: THE REFORMATION OF WORSHIP FROM ERASMUS TO CALVIN." -- Publisher
Beze, Theodore de (1519-1605), and Francis Sibson (b. 1779), The Life of John Calvin (1836)
http://archive.org/details/lifeofjohncalvin00bz2
Blackwood, R., William Symington Churchman and Theologian (1795-1862).
Blair, Robert, Thomas M'Crie, William Row, Wodrow Society, and Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, Life of Robert Blair Containing his Autobiography, from 1593 to 1636, with Supplement to his Life, and Continuation of the History of the Times to 1680, ISBN: 9780955797934 0955797934.
Bonar, Andrew R. (1810-1892), Last Days of the Martyrs: or, Sketches of Witnesses for the Faith From Early Times to the Reformation, Including Notices of the Martyrs for the Covenant in Scotland.
*Boston, Thomas (1676-1732), Memoirs of Thomas Boston. A Christian classic.
"Boston was a country preacher in Scotland. His remarkable triumphs over his obscure location and a church he described as 'naturally smart and of an uncommon assurance; self-conceited and censorious to a degree [are related here]. . . ." His works total 12 hefty volumes. His sermons are replete with memorable sayings. . . . His wife was mentally ill, and he himself suffered severe illness from vitamin deficiency. Yet these trials only spurred his deep faith, and accelerated his accomplishments. At the last he was famous, drawing large crowds from far away places. He preached until he could not walk, and then people gathered under his window to hear his last words, he advocating his ruling lifetime passion, the need of self-examination with Biblical guidelines." -- Jay P. Green, Sr. (1918-2008)
Other works by Boston include HUMAN NATURE IN ITS FOURFOLD STATE and his sermons on REPENTANCE along with his book on suffering, THE CROOK IN THE LOT, and his excellent work, THE ART OF MAN-FISHING.
Memoirs of the Life, Times, and Writings, of the Rev. Thomas Boston, of Ettrick (1852)
http://archive.org/details/memoirsofthelife00bostuoft
Brown, J. Wood, The Covenanters of the Merse: Their History and Sufferings, as Found in the Records of That Time, 1893.
The Covenanters of the Merse
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Brown, John (of Wamphray, 1610-1679), The Life of Faith in Time of Trial and Affliction: Cleared up and Explained, From Heb. X. xviii [Hebrews 10:18]. Now the just shall live by faith [Hebrews 10:38]. By Mr. John Brown, minister of the Gospel.
*Brown, P. Hume, John Knox: A Biography, 2 volumes. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #1.
"Brown says of Knox, 'It would, indeed, be difficult to name another historical personage who in such degree as Knox revealed a nation's genius to itself, and at once vitalized and dominated its collective thought and action. To present Knox in this twofold aspect, at once as a great Scotsman, and a figure of European importance, is the object of the present biography.' Moreover, Brown continues, noting that in Knox 'we have precisely what distinguishes the great religious leader from the mere religious visionary' and we 'have seen in Knox one of the great emancipators of humanity, whose work left undone would irremediably have injured the highest interests not only of his own country but of the community of civilized nations . . . For the mass of his countrymen, those who have shaped the nation's destinies in the past as they must shape them in the future, Knox is the greatest person their country has produced, and the man to whom in all that makes a people great they owe the deepest and most abiding debt. 'What I have been to my country,' he himself said when within sight of the end he looked back on the long travail of his life, 'what I have been to my country, albeit this unthankful age will not know, yet the ages to come will be compelled to bear witness to the truth;' and the consenting testimony of three centuries is the evidence and pledge that his assurance was not in vain.' An rare and extensive biography of over 700 pages. . . ." -- Publisher
Brown, S.J., Thomas Chalmers and the Godly Commonwealth in Scotland, ISBN: 0192131141 9780192131140.
Buchanan, George (1506-1582), George Buchanan: Glasgow Quartercentenary Studies, 1906.
Buckroyd, Julia, The Life of James Sharp, Archbishop of St. Andrews, 1618-1679: A Political Biography, ISBN: 0859761843 9780859761840.
Calamy, Edmund (1671-1732), Memoirs of the Life of the Late Revd. Mr. John Howe.
*Calamy, Edmund (1678-1732), and Samuel Palmer (d. 1724, editor), The Nonconformist's Memorial, 3 volumes, ISBN: 0781206243. This seems to be the preferred edition. E-text available OCLC: 220202826. A Christian classic. See also: Benjamin Brook, LIVES OF THE PURITANS.
"Edmund Calamy (1678-1732), a dissenting minister in London and a historian, was the son and grandson of puritan ministers inside the Church of England. Both of them, along with hundreds of others, were expelled from their church livings for their refusal to submit to the 1662 Act of Uniformity. This event, the so-called 'Great Ejection', was a crucial moment in the formation of religious dissent in England. This book, first published in 1775, is an extensively-revised version, by another dissenting minister Samuel Palmer, of materials originally collated and published by Edmund Calamy, commemorating the lives and works of these ejected ministers.
"Editing the autobiography of one of the most eminent of these ejected ministers, Richard Baxter, Calamy included a long chapter listing the ejected ministers and such biographical data as he could find. This is the famous chapter 9 of AN ABRIDGMENT OF MR. BAXTER'S HISTORY OF HIS LIFE AND TIMES (1702). This chapter became a whole volume of a second edition of the ABRIDGEMENT published in 1713. And in 1727 Calamy produced a further two volumes of material under the title A CONTINUATION OF THE ACCOUNT OF THE MINISTERS, LECTURERS, MASTERS AND FELLOWS OF COLLEGES, AND SCHOOLMASTERS WHO WERE EJECTED AND SILENCED AFTER THE RESTORATION OF 1660 . . .
"Samuel Palmer attempted to integrate this material into a more readable form, making extensive revisions and additions. He certainly succeeded in producing something more accessible to eighteenth-century readers and there were several reprints of the book and a second edition in 1802-3. However readability was sometimes at the cost of accuracy and of a reduction of the scholarly value of Calamy's material.
"Nevertheless THE NONCONFORMIST'S MEMORIAL was an important work of collective memory by eighteenth-century dissenters." -- Publisher
Calamy, The Nonconformist's Memorial: Being an Account of the Ministers, who Were Ejected or Silenced . . . (1775), volume 2 of 2
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Calamy, The Nonconformist's Memorial: Being an Account of the Ministers, who Were Ejected or Silenced . . . (1775), volume 1 of 2
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*Calderwood, David (1600-1666), The History of the Kirk of Scotland, 8 volumes. A Christian classic. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #11.
" 'The extensive learning and eminent talents of the Rev. David Calderwood, his matured experience in ecclesiastical affairs, and especially in those of his native country, the persecutions he had endured for his beloved Church, and the numerous works he had written in its defense, all qualified him, in the happiest manner, for becoming a Historian of the Kirk of Scotland. Above all, when the narrative was to be one of struggle and suffering, in which the principalities and powers of the earth, as well as those of darkness, were the antagonists, the record of such a conflict fell most aptly into the hands of a man whom a monarch had in vain attempted to brow-beat, and a whole hierarchy to silence. His own heart also appears to have affectionately inclined towards this his most congenial occupation, so that, after his return from exile, he spent many years in collecting and arranging the materials necessary for such an important task. At last, when he had reached his seventy-third year, the General Assembly, for the purpose of enabling him to perfect his work, granted him an annual pension of 800 pounds Scots. Calderwood died only two years afterwards; but he lived to accomplish his purpose of writing the History of our National Church from the commencement of the Reformation to the close of the reign of James the Sixth, in two, if not three successive and copious revisals' (Preface to volume one, pp. v-vi). More on the prominent role Calderwood played in the church of his day is supplied by Johnston, TREASURY OF THE SCOTTISH COVENANT, p. 47, when he writes that 'the Second Book of Discipline was sworn to in the National Covenant in 1581, and revised by the Assembly of 1638. The most important parts of the book were legalized in 1592, and again in 1690. Calderwood, the historian, edited 'The First and Second Book of Discipline,' printed in 1621.' Furthermore, the DICTIONARY OF SCOTTISH CHURCH HISTORY AND THEOLOGY (p. 118), tells us that Calderwood was 'excluded from the church courts when he opposed Bishop James Law of Orkney's (FES VII, 322), substitution of royal supporters in place of the Presbytery's duly elected representatives to the General Assembly. But when King James VI visited Scotland in 1617, Calderwood and 54 other ministers meeting in Edinburgh wrote a protest against the King's intention that the monarch and men of his preference should appoint forms of worship and discipline in the Church. Calderwood was required to appear with Archibald Simson before the King at St. Andrews, where from his knees he boldly opposed the King's will and asserted the freedom of the General Assembly to control the Church's ceremonies and government (emphasis added, and some today say these are points of little or no consequence -- how different from our Reformed forefathers -- RB). Calderwood was deprived of his charge, imprisoned and banished. In 1619 he went to Holland, whence he issued anonymously his monumental critique of English episcopacy, The Altar of Damascus (n.p., 1621), greatly enlarged in Latin . . . Calderwood's writings were erudite and widely persuasive, preparing the way for the restoration of Presbyterian practice at the 'Second Reformation' . . . With Alexander Henderson and David Dickson he was appointed by the General Assembly of 1643 to draft a directory for public worship, to fill a need for guidelines after the episcopal conventions had been removed (in keeping with the Solemn League and Covenant -- RB).' The same article, commenting on this eight volume history, relates, 'it is a major source for the history of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation until 1625.' This massive set (of over 6000 pages), was printed between 1842 and 1849. It contains a 171 page index and Thomson's 'Life of David Calderwood. The contents are listed and dealt with chronologically by year; beginning in the preamble with the descent of the Scots from the ancient Gauls, but formally covering the period (focusing to the church), from 1514 to 1625. Documents and information available no where else (that we know of), are also included in this set. Must reading for researchers and those interested in church history!" -- Publisher
The History of the Kirk of Scotland (1842), David Calderwood, Volume: 1 of 8
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Campbell, William M., Samuel Rutherfurd [Rutherford], Propagandist and Exponent of Scottish Presbyterianism: An Exposition of his Position and Influence in the Doctrine and Politics of the Scottish Church.
Carlisle, Samuel, A Paper on the History of the Reformed Presbyterian or Covenanting Church in the Vicinity of Newburgh and on the Life of Rev. James R. Willson, D.D., 1885.
*Carslaw, W.H., The Life and Letters of James Renwick the Last Scottish Martyr, 1893. Alternate title: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JAMES RENWICK. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #30. Available in BIOGRAPHIA PRESBYTERIANA. Available (BIOGRAPHIA PRESBYTERIANA) on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available (BIOGRAPHIA PRESBYTERIANA) on Reformation Bookshelf CD #30.
Biographia Presbyteriana
https://archive.org/details/biographiapresby02walk/page/n9
Carslaw, W.H., The Life and Times of Donald Cargill. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #30.
Carslaw, W.H., Life and Times of William Guthrie. See: Carslaw, THREE HEROES OF THE COVENANT: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM GUTHRIE, DONALD CARGILL AND JAMES RENWICK, LAST OF THE MARTYRS, 1902. Available (THREE HEROES OF THE COVENANT) on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #26.
Carslaw, W.H., Six Martyrs of the Scottish Reformation: Patrick Hamilton, George Wishart, Walter Myln, James Guthrie, Marquis of Argyll and Sir Archibald Johnstone, 1907. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #26.
Carslaw, W.H., Three Heroes of the Covenant: The Life and Times of William Guthrie, Donald Cargill and James Renwick, Last of the Martyrs, 1902. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #26.
Cassels, Thomas, and A.L. Struthers, Men of the Knotted Heart; A Recollection and Appreciation of Alexander Duncan Grant, and John Paterson Struthers.
Chapman, William, Notable Women of the Covenant: Their Lives and Times.
Cowan, E.J., Montrose, for Covenant and King, ISBN: 0297772090 9780297772095.
Cowan, Ian Borthwick, The Later Scottish Covenanters, 1660-88, ISBN: 0575021055 9780575021051.
*Craighead, James Geddes (1832-1895), The Craighead Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Rev. Thomas and Margaret Craighead, 1658-1876, ISBN: 0916497704.
Relates "the life and times of hundreds of Craigheads and their friends. . . ." -- Reader's Comment
Cunningham, William (1805-1861), John Calvin. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #17.
"As Cunningham states, 'John Calvin was by far the greatest of the Reformers with respect to the talents he possessed, the influence he exerted, and the services he rendered in the establishment and diffusion of important truth.' Here we have a succinct account of Calvin's works and the leading principles that he maintained. Calvin is without a doubt one of the great men in all of human history, and as he often pointed out, he owed everything to the Lord Jesus Christ -- all his talents, all his influence, his very salvation, etc. -- for that is the nature of 'Calvinism,' giving God all the glory!" -- Publisher
Cuthbertson, John, and John Buchanan, The Diary of the Reverend John Cuthbertson, 1751-1791.
"Holograph. The pocket diary of the Reverend John Cuthbertson which he carried daily in his wanderings and ministrations over the district 'west of the Alleghenies' for 40 years, 1751-1791.
"Original diary presented to Allegheny Theological Seminary by John Buchanan, 1896." -- Publisher
Dever, Mark, Richard Sibbes: Puritanism and Calvinism in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England, ISBN: 0865546576 9780865546578.
"This book is a historical and theological study of Richard Sibbes (1577-1635), preacher of Gray's Inn, London, and master of Katharine Hall, Cambridge. In the first part of the study, Sibbes' life and ministry are explored, investigating particularly his family and education, and exploring his relationships with individuals, institutions, and the larger church. In the second half of the book, the author investigates Sibbes' theology. Contrary to what has sometimes been suggested, Sibbes was undeniably a Reformed, covenant theologian, and notes the congruity of this with his ecclesiology and with his experience of the Church. The book concludes that a greater historical understanding of Sibbes, and a more careful theological reading of his works cause him to appear more consistent, and less puzzling." -- Publisher
Dickson, David (1583-1663), A Short Account of the Life of the Rev. David Dickson. Alternate title: A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE REV. DAVID DICKSON. Available in TWEEDIE, SCOTTISH PURITANS: SELECT BIOGRAPHIES.
Dickson, David (1583-1663), Robert Wodrow, and George Sinclair, Truth's Victory Over Error: or, The True Principles of the Christian Religion. Alternate title: A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE REV. DAVID DICKSON.
"Written by the late reverend and learned Mr. David Dickson . . . To this edition is prefix'd, a short account of the author's life, by the late Rev. Mr. Robert Wodrow."
Dryerre, J. Meldrum, Heroes and Heroines of the Scottish Covenanters, 1925.
Durkan, John, Stephen Rawles, Nigel Thorp, George Buchanan, and University of Glasgow, Library, George Buchanan: (1506-1582): Renaissance Scholar and Friend of Glasgow University: A Quartercentenary Exhibition: Glasgow University Library, 17 May -- 7 August 1982, ISBN: 0852611714 9780852611715.
Elder, John Rawson, The Highland Host of 1678, 1914, ISBN: 131405127X 9781314051278.
Erskine, Ralph (1685-1752), The Life and Practical Works of the Reverend Ralph Erskine, A.M., Volume 5 of the Calvinistic Family Library: Devoted to the Republication of Standard Calvinistic Works.
"Some volumes [of the Calvinistic Family Library] published by David Christy; some volumes published by Board of the Calvinistic Book Concern."
Erskine, Ralph (1685-1752), and Donald Fraser, The Life and Practical Works of the Reverend Ralph Erskine, 1834. Alternate title: THE LIFE AND DIARY OF RALPH ERSKINE.
Ferguson, Samuel (of Waterside Londonderry), and Eull Dunlop, William Stavely: Samuel Ferguson's "brief biographical sketch" and other material on the Ferniskey man (1743-1825), known as the Apostle of the Covenanters. ISBN: 187324312X 9781873243121.
Foster, Finley Milligan, In Memory of Scotland's Martyrs: Lectures Delivered June 20th and 27th, and July 4th, 1880, ISBN: 0524050783 9780524050781.
Fraser, Donald, Minister of the Gospel, Kennoway, The Life and Diary of the Rev. Ralph Erskine . . . one of the Founders of the Secession Church.
Fraser, James (of Brea, 1639-1698), Memoirs of the Life of the Very Reverend Mr. James Fraser of Brea, . . . Written by Himself. Dedicated by the Author, to . . . Thomas Ross, 1738.
Memoirs of the Life of the Very Reverend Mr. James Fraser, of Brea 1639-1698: Written by Himself (1798)
http://archive.org/details/memoirslifevery00frasgoog
Gilfillan, George (1813-1878), The Martyrs and Heroes of the Scottish Covenant, 10th edition, 1914.
*Gilmour, Robert, Samuel Rutherford: A Biographical and Historical Study in the History of the Scottish Covenant. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #10.
"In CRITICAL REVIEWS RELATING CHIEFLY TO SCOTLAND (also in this bound photocopy section), compiled by Hay Fleming, we read, 'Mr. Gilmour has produced an excellent volume, which is worthy of being placed alongside any of its predecessors . . . Scattered throughout its pages there are numerous quotations from Rutherford's own works . . . Rutherford's admirers will relish it, because of its keen sympathy with and high appreciation of him.' Rutherfurd (sic) was a master scholar of Scripture, a great devotional writer (see his Letters), a devoted minister of Christ, one of the Scotch commissioners to the Westminster Assembly, and a world class political philosopher (whose LEX, REX forever changed the face of political thought). Gilmour writes, 'that, as regards religious fervour, scholastic subtlety of intellect, and intensity of ecclesiastical conviction, Samuel Rutherford is the most distinctively representative Scotsman in the first half of the seventeenth century.' Few saints in history were given the gifts this man possessed." -- Publisher
Glasgow, W. Melancthon, The Geneva Book, Comprising a History of Geneva College and a Biographical Catalogue of the Alumni and Many Students, 1908.
Glasgow, W. Melancthon, The Old Light Covenanter (Covenanter.org and Truecovenanter.com)
David Smith Faris
"Son of Rev. James and Nancy (Smith) Faris, was born in Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana, November 11, 1830. He received his early education in the common schools, and under the direction of his distinguished father, and graduated from the University of Indiana in 1851. He studied theology privately during the suspension of the Seminary, and was licensed by the Illinois Presbytery, October 10, 1855. At the reorganization of the Allegheny Seminary, in 1856, he attended one session. He was ordained by the Illinois Presbytery, and installed pastor of the Bethel congregation, Sparta, Randolph County, Illinois, October 7, 1857, where he is in charge. He was twice married. First to Miss Jane McAfee, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1861; and second, to Mrs. Hester (Edgar) Finley, of Sparta, Illinois, March 30, 1871. He is the author of a pamphlet, "A Defense of the Old School Covenanters as Dissenters from the United States Constitution," 1864, p. 33, and many historical articles in the magazines of the Church, bearing upon the history of the Covenanters in South Carolina. He was Moderator of the Synod of 1883." -- D.S. Faris and W. Melancthon Glasgow in History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America, pp. 498,499.
David Smith Faris
"D.S. Faris, whose historical sketch appears in Glasgow's History until the year 1888 when that volume was published, was at that time pastor of the Bethel congregation of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, in Sparta, Illinois. He continued in this charge until weakness made it impossible further to perform his duties when he resigned and was released from the pastoral duties of the congregation on January 1, 1906. He had served the one congregation for a period of half a century lacking two years. He continued to reside in Sparta until the time of his death, which occurred February 13, 1914, at the age of 83. He was a faithful worker both in his pastoral work and in his preaching. He also stood in the front in all reform work that came within his sphere of life. He with a very few others occupied the unique position of thinking out and putting into motion the great work of National Reformation that has continued down to the present time, and has grown into international proportions. He left behind him a wife, three daughters and one son. A half century of service! And yet standing in the edge of Eternity we will look back and speak of it as a short half an hour. Oh, how earnestly we should live." -- Owen F. Thompson, Sketches of the Ministers of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America from 1888 to 1930: Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, pp. 104,105.
http://oldlightcovenanter.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/d-s-faris/
Glasgow, W. Melancthon, Ray B. Lanning, and Nathan P. Eshelman, History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America: With Sketches of all her Ministry, Congregations, Missions, Institutions, Publications, etc., and Embellished With Over Fifty Portraits and Engravings, ISBN: 9781601780195 1601780192.
"Gives the history of early covenanters in America. David Steele and others left the communion sometime prior to the synod of 1841 in Utica, Ohio (p. 108). Notice 'the alleged reason that the Synod had postponed its deliverance on "voluntary associations",' and they regarded the Synod as unfaithful to its duty." -- Publisher
"Students of Presbyterian church history will discover a whole family of churches whose history sparkles with remarkable personalities and noteworthy achievements, however much they may have been forgotten in the years that followed. Reformed Presbyterians, Associate Reformed Presbyterians, and the dwindling numbers of those who once belonged to the United Presbyterian Church of North America, will all give thanks for the history that is brought to light in these pages. We 'Scottish Dissenting Presbyterians' have a goodly heritage. We have much to discover about our forbears in the faith, and what they accomplished in their day; and much as well to consider with regard to how their distinctive principles and practices may have something vital to contribute to our churches and to our nation today." -- Ray B. Lanning and Nathan P. Eshelman, from the Introduction,
http://www.reformedpresbyterian.org/conv_resources.html
Glasgow, History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America
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Glasgow, History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America, embellished with over fifty portraits and engravings
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Grant, Maurice, The Lion of the Covenant: The Story of Richard Cameron, ISBN: 0852343957 9780852343951.
"Of all the names associated with the cause of Scottish Covenanters, and their heroic resistance to arbitrary power, none is better known than that of Richard Cameron. As preacher, public figure and popular leader, he epitomized the steadfastness of a people in the face of a bitter and protracted persecution. Such was the impact of his life that, even in his own day, his name came to be synonymous with uncompromising adherence to a cause, a cause that was of the very essence of civil and religious freedom." -- Publisher
Grant, Maurice, No King but Christ: The Story of Donald Cargill, ISBN: 0852342551 9780852342558. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"A Covenanter and field-preacher, Cargill studied under Samuel Rutherford at St. Andrews. For opposing the introduction of Episcopacy, he was ejected in the Great Ejection of 1662. He later refused government indulgences and after returning from Holland (to preach with Richard Cameron in Scotland), he publicly excommunicated Charles II and other leading 'government' officials. A large reward was then placed on his head and after many narrow escapes he was apprehended by the emissaries of the beast. For his testimony to the truth he was tried and convicted of treason and executed on July 27, 1681. This is a well researched book telling the stirring story of faithfulness (to the covenanted cause of Christ), and martyrdom. In the preface to this book the author wisely comments, 'Some of the traditions that have grown up around the men and women who suffered for their faith in seventeenth-century Scotland have tended to represent them as adherents of a movement which was diverse in some way from the main current of Scottish Presbyterianism. Cargill is well enough known as one of the principal figures of the period, but it is around him particularly that many of these misconceptions have tended to concentrate. Too often he has been depicted, even by not unfriendly hands, as something of an austere dogmatist, cling obstinately to a fanatical creed which brought himself and his followers into needless conflict with the authorities. It has been part of my purpose to show that, on the contrary, the principles for which Cargill contended lay at the very heart of the Scottish reformed tradition, and that the actions which he took were of the highest importance in preserving the historic testimony of the Scottish church. The result is, I hope, to place Cargill's position in a truer historical perspective and to dispel some of the misunderstandings which have gathered around his life and character'." -- Publisher
Guthrie, James (1612?-1661), A cry From the Dead or, the Ghost of the Famous Mr. James Guthrie, Appearing. Being the Last Sermon he Preached in the Pulpit of Stirling, Before his Martyrdom at Edinburgh, June 1661. To Which is Added, his Last Speech Upon the Scaffold. 1738.
Guthrie, James (1612?-1661), Archibald Campbell, Marquis of Argyll (1598-1661), My Lord Marquesse of Argyle, his Speech Upon the Scaffold the 27th of May, 1661 as it was Spoken by Himself and Written in Short-hand by one That was Present. As Also the Speech of Mr. James Guthrie, Minister at Sterling, Which he Delivered Upon the Scaffold at the Crosse of Edinburgh Immediately Before he Suffered June 1, 1661.
*Guthrie, James (1612?-1661), Alexander Henderson (1583-1646), Thomas M'Crie (1772-1835, contributor), Thomas Thomson (contributor), Free Church of Scotland General Assembly, Lives of Alexander Henderson and James Guthrie: With Specimens of Their Writings. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Select Writings of James Guthrie, Martyr at True Covenanter
http://www.truecovenanter.com/guthrie/jguthrie.htm
Guthrie, William, and W. Muir (editor), Memoir and Letters of William Guthrie, 1827.
*Guthrie, William (1620-1665), The Works of Mr. William Guthrie, 1771, 382 pages. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"Two accounts of the author's life (by Dunlop and Wodrow), and Trail's "Recommendatory preface" open this volume. Part one of the book includes THE CHRISTIAN'S GREAT INTEREST: IN TWO PARTS, 1. THE TRIAL OF A SAVING INTEREST IN CHRIST. 2. THE WAY HOW TO ATTAIN IT. Part two binds in FIVE SERMONS ON PARTICULAR OCCASIONS. In part three we find "A Treatise on Ruling Elders and Deacons; in which these things which belong to the understanding of their office are clearly set down." Part three was not written by William Guthrie, but by his cousin, James Guthrie (Christ's faithful martyr 'who championed the cause of the Protesters and strongly upheld the principles of the Covenant.' (Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology, p. 382)
"William Guthrie 'served as moderator of the Protester Synod of Glasgow and Ayr in 1654.' (Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology, p. 382). Regarding Guthrie, Robert Trail (in his preface), points out that 'it pleased the Lord, who had separated him from his mother's womb, to call him by his grace, by the ministry of excellent Mr. Samuel Rutherford, and this young gentleman became the firstfruits of his [Rutherford's -- RB], ministry at St. Andrews.' (p. xliv).
"William Guthrie has been called 'the greatest practical preacher in Scotland.' John Owen spoke of Guthrie as 'one of the greatest divines that ever wrote' and said his THE CHRISTIAN'S GREAT INTEREST contained 'more divinity' than all his own folios. (Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology, p. 382). Thomas Chalmers said that it was the best book that he had ever read. Many editions have appeared in numerous languages." -- Publisher
Halliday, Thomas, Sermons by the Late Thomas Halliday, Airdie. With a Memoir by Andrew Symington, 1828. Available (WORKS OF THOMAS HALLIDAY) on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available (SERMONS BY THE LATE THOMAS HALLIDAY, AIRDIE. WITH A MEMOIR BY ANDREW SYMINGTON) on Reformation Bookshelf CD #29.
Hanna, William, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, 4 volumes, 1849.
*Henderson, Alexander (1583-1646), James Guthrie (1612?-1661), Thomas M'Crie (1772-1835, contributor), Thomas Thomson (contributor), Free Church of Scotland General Assembly, Lives of Alexander Henderson and James Guthrie: With Specimens of Their Writings. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Select Writings of James Guthrie, Martyr at True Covenanter
http://www.truecovenanter.com/guthrie/jguthrie.htm
Herkless, John, Richard Cameron. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #17.
"Part of the famous Scots series, this book chronicles the life of the Presbyterian Pastor know as the 'Lion of the Covenant.' Cameron (1648-1680), rejected his early Episcopalian persuasion, subsequent to hearing 'the persecuted Gospel in the fields,' and after 'the wonderful working of the Lord by His powerful Spirit upon him' revealing 'a lively discovery of the sin and hazard of Prelacy,' he joined with ranks of the persecuted Covenanters, notes Howie (in Scots Worthies). He set an uncompromising standard for the gospel and against the enemies of Christ, for which he was hunted and ultimately martyred. In mockery of his testimony, the wicked took his head and hands and fixed them upon the Netherbow Port, with the fingers upward. 'One of his and Christ's declared enemies, when he looked at his head at Edinburgh, gave him this testimony, saying, 'There's the head and hands of a man who lived praying and preaching, and died praying and fighting.' And wherever the faithful contendings of the Covenanted Church of Scotland are made mention of, this, to his hounour, shall be recorded of him.' (Scots Worthies). Herkless also states that 'it is of noteworthy significance . . . that for over two hundred years Cameron's name has been associated with a set of men marked by the strictest adherence to Calvinism, and by a genuine, even though severe, profession of piety. It was a remarkable testimony to their religious earnestness when Norman Macleod, referring to the parish of Loudoun, wrote: 'I am eagerly desirous to get family worship established -- of that there seems not to be a vestige, except among the Cameronians, and there every family has it.' In this testimony stands the name of Cameron, who, by the genuineness of his religion, his uncompromising devotion to principle, and the greatness of his cause, touched the nation and fixed himself in its memory.' Cameron was ordained at the hands of the exiled Robert MacWard and John Brown (of Wamphray), while in Holland. 'He and a group of supporters issued the Sanquhar Declaration, renouncing the authority of Charles II, and declaring war upon him as a tyrant and usurper. For this he was declared a traitor, and had a heavy price put on his head'." (Nigel Cameron, editor, Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology, p. 124) -- Publisher
Hewart, Kirkwood, Makers of the Scottish Church at the Reformation, 1920.
Horne, A. Sinclair, Torchbearers of the Truth: Sketches of the Scottish Covenanters, ISBN: 0950031909 9780950031903.
Houston, Thomas (1803-1882), Letters of the Rev. James Renwick, The Last of Scotland's Covenanted Martyrs, 1865, 290 pages. Available (LETTERS OF THE REV. JAMES RENWICK), on Reformation Bookshelf CD #21.
"Contains a historical sketch of Renwick's life, labours, and martyrdom, and a vindication of his character and testimony -- along with 63 of his letters (from July 8, 1682 to Feb. 17, 1688). A useful appendix is also included denouncing the Revolution settlement and rebuking 'those who have no relish for a full covenanted testimony.' Because of the severity of Renwick's and the 'Society people's' suffering, and the wickedness of the slander and persecution they endured (which is beginning to be repeated in our day through the likes of men like Richard Bacon and other unfaithful ministers and malicious malignants), this book makes for excellent 'spiritual support and consolation in difficult times.' We also happily note, along with Houston, that 'the resurrection of the names of the confessors and martyrs of a former age, is a sure indication of the resurrection of their principles too' -- as we see God stretching forth his hand to our wicked and sinful generation in the writings of faithful covenanted ministers like James Renwick (and many others)." -- Publisher
The Life of Mr. James Renwick, excerpted from BIOGRAPHIA SCOTICANA, John Howie
http://www.truecovenanter.com/bio/howie_bios_renwick_james.html
Houston, Thomas (1803-1882), The Life of James Renwick: A Historical Sketch of his Life, Labours and Martyrdom and a Vindication of his Character and Testimony. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available (THE LIFE OF THE REV. JAMES RENWICK), on Reformation Bookshelf CD #26.
The Life of Mr. James Renwick, excerpted from BIOGRAPHIA SCOTICANA, John Howie
http://www.truecovenanter.com/bio/howie_bios_renwick_james.html
The Life of James Renwick: A Faithful Covenanter, Cameronian, Martyr for Christ, #1
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=819077439
*Howie, John (1735-1793, preface), The Dying Testimonies of the Scots Worthies, Collated From "Naphtali," "The Cloud of Witnesses," Ancient Manuscripts . . .
Howie, John (1735-1793), James Stewart and John Knox: Scotland's "Two Sons of oil" (excerpted from John Howie's SCOTS WORTHIES, 1781 edition, narrated by Larry Birger, Jr.). Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #1.
"As Birger accurately observes in his introduction to this one-tape reformational powerhouse, 'One great reason the Church is so weak and divided today is precisely because she has rejected these commandments of her Lord and Husband [to walk in the footsteps of the flock (Song of Solomon 1:8), and to seek out and walk in the old paths (Jeremiah 6:16)]. Forgetting the works of God in history, she has thus become an easy prey to the old lies and idolatries of the Roman Catholic Church, that whore of Babylon, such that so-called Protestantism today in many ways bears more resemblance to the Roman Church than to the biblical churches of the Reformation. We are indeed ignorant of our history, and therefore have been doomed time and again to repeat its mistakes.' He continues, pointing to one of God's powerful remedies for our sinful failings in this area: Our gracious Lord has nonetheless provided a way out for us, by preserving for us the narratives of His great works in history, as well as His infallible Word by which to judge which are truly the good old paths. . . . On this tape you'll hear of the lives of two men who exemplified the work of Christ's "Two Witnesses" in Scotland, James Stewart, Earl of Moray, and John Knox. These "Two Sons of oil," like their ancient predecessors, Zerubbabel and Joshua, illustrate the holy beauty and mighty effectiveness of God's institutions of Scriptural civil magistracy and gospel ministry. We see from their high regard for one another and from the work they accomplished in the Lord how both righteous civil rulers and faithful gospel ministers are necessary for true and lasting, society-changing reformation. In our age of ungodly toleration and pretended liberty of conscience (as opposed to the true Scriptural liberty of conscience promoted by these two eminent reformers), the emphasis is generally laid upon the ministry only as the agent of reformation -- and truly, there will be no lasting reformation without a faithful ministry. Nevertheless, we see from the Scriptural examples of Hezekiah, Josiah, and other godly rulers, as well as from various instances throughout subsequent history that the civil rulers are called by, and used by, God to promote and protect the welfare of His Bride, the Church. These rulers have no authority in matters of religion, but they have a responsibility about matters of religion -- to do things like suppressing and uprooting heresy, blasphemy, and idolatry, and encouraging and promoting faithful ministers -- as all our faithful Reformed forefathers taught.' Learn with excitement how God used these two faithful men to defeat Antichrist in Scotland, and purify and unify His faithful Church there. A great tool for seeing the vital importance of the civil government (as well as the ministry), in reformation!" -- Publisher
James Stewart and John Knox: Scotland's "Two Sons of oil," audio file.
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?sermonid=122501142339
*Howie, John (1735-1793), The Judgment and Justice of God Exemplified, 1782. Alternate title: BRIEF HISTORICAL HINT OF THE WICKED LIVES AND MISERABLE DEATHS OF SOME OF THE MOST REMARKABLE APOSTATES AND BLOODY PERSECUTORS IN SCOTLAND, FROM THE REFORMATION TILL AFTER THE REVOLUTION; COLLECTED FROM HISTORICAL RECORDS, AUTHENTICAL WRITINGS, AND OTHER WELL-VOUCHED RELATIONS. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available as an appendix to THE SCOTS WORTHIES. BIOGRAPHIA SCOTICANA.
*Howie, John (1735-1793), The Scots Worthies. Biographia Scoticana: or, A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies . . . Also, an Appendix, Containing a Short Historical Hint of the Wicked Lives . . . of the . . . Apostates and . . . Persecutors in Scotland . . . 2nd edition, corrected and enlarged, 1781. A Christian classic. Available (PDF and MP3 audio files) on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available (PDF file) on Reformation Bookshelf CD #1, #10. Available (22 MP3 audio files) on Reformation Bookshelf CD #1-30 and at AudioSermons.com.
"Most commonly known as SCOTS WORTHIES, this edition contains Howie's footnotes (defending the Covenanters), and Howie's appendix titled 'The Judgment and Justice of God' (which chronicles God's judgments upon Reformation apostates and those who persecuted the Covenanters). It is the only edition in print which contains both these sections intended for publication by the author (as later editors often removed either one or both of these parts of this book). BIOGRAPHIA SCOTICANA covers the history of 'noblemen, gentlemen, ministers and others from Mr. Patrick Hamilton, who was born about the year of our Lord 1503, and suffered martyrdom at St. Andrews, Feb., 1527, to Mr. James Renwick, who was executed in the Grass-market of Edinburgh, Feb. 17, 1688. Together with a succinct account of the lives of other seven eminent divines, and Sir Robert Hamilton of Preston, who died about, or shortly after the Revolution.' This is one of our best history books (over 700 pages), covering all of the major Scottish Reformers. Howie summarizes his book as follows: 'The design of the following was to collect, from the best authorities, a summary account of the lives, characters, and contendings, of a certain number of our most renowned SCOTS WORTHIES, who, for their faithful services, ardent zeal, constancy in sufferings, and other Christian graces and virtues, deserve honourable memorial in the Church of Christ; and for which their names have been, and will be savoury to all the true lovers of our Zion, while Reformation principles are regarded.' Furthermore, the momentous nature of the struggles chronicled in this book are succinctly noted when Howie writes: 'the primitive witnesses had the divinity of the Son of God, and an open confession of Him, for their testimony. Our reformers from Popery had Antichrist to struggle with, in asserting the doctrines of the Gospel, and the right way of salvation in and through Jesus Christ. Again, in the reigns of James VI. and Charles I., Christ's REGALIA, and the divine right of Presbytery, became the subject matter of their testimony. Then, in the beginning of the reign of Charles II. (until he got the whole of our ancient and laudable constitution effaced and overturned), our Worthies only saw it their duty to hold and contend for what they had already attained unto. But, in the end of this and the subsequent tyrant's reign, they found it their duty (a duty which they had too long neglected), to advance one step higher, by casting off their authority altogether, and that as well on account of their manifest usurpation of Christ's crown and dignity, as on account of their treachery, bloodshed, and tyranny . . . which may be summed up. The Primitive martyrs sealed the prophetic office of Christ in opposition to Pagan idolatry. The reforming martyrs sealed His priestly office with their blood, in opposition to Popish idolatry. And last of all, our late martyrs have sealed His kingly office with their best blood, in despite of supremacy and bold Erastianism. They indeed have cemented it upon His royal head, so that to the world's end it shall never drop off again.' Moreover, the importance of this book can be clearly seen when Johnston, in TREASURY OF THE SCOTTISH COVENANT, reports that, Walter Scott refers to Howie as 'the fine old chronicler of the Cameronians'. . . Howie's book has been for upwards of a century a household word, occupying a place on the shelf beside THE BIBLE and THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.' Written for God, country and the covenanted work of Reformation. Stirring history!" -- Publisher
An alternative edition that also contains the appendix, Biographia Scoticana: or, A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies, Noblemen, Gentlemen, Ministers and Others . . . With an Appendix, Containing a Short Historical Account of the Wicked Lives and Miserable Deaths of Some of the Most Bloody Persecutors in Scotland, 1836.
An Appendix, Containing a Short Historical Hint of the Wicked Lives and Miserable Deaths of Some of the Most Remarkable Apostates and Bloody Persecutors in Scotland From the Reformation to the Revolution
This is the Appendix to THE SCOTS WORTHIES. BIOGRAPHIA SCOTICANA, 2nd edition, corrected and enlarged, 1781.
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See also: A CLOUD OF WITNESSES FOR THE ROYAL PREROGATIVES OF JESUS CHRIST BEING THE LAST SPEECHES AND TESTIMONIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED FOR THE TRUTH IN SCOTLAND SINCE . . . 1680 and JOHN FOXE'S BOOK OF MARTYRS. ACTES AND MONUMENTS OF MATTERS MOST SPECIALL AND MEMORABLE. Available from: http://www.johnfoxe.org. Implemented by the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, England, and published by HRI Online Publications, Sheffield, 2011, Version 2.0, ISBN: 9780954260864.
Howie, John (1735-1793), and James Howie, Memoirs of the Life of John Howie. Alternate title: MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF JOHN HOWIE: WHO LIVED IN LOCHGOIN, PARISH OF FENWICK, AND DIED JANUARY 5TH 1793. CONTAINING A SERIES OF RELIGIOUS EXERCISES, SOUL SOLILOQUIES, MEDITATIONS, AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE LORD'S GOODNESS TO HIM IN GENERAL. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
*Howie, John (1735-1793), and William M'Gavin (1773-1832, preface), The Last Words and Dying Testimonies of the Scots Worthies: Containing the Cloud of Witnesses for the Royal Prerogatives of Jesus Christ . . . and Naphtali, or, The Wrestlings of the Church of Scotland for the Kingdom of Christ: The Whole Accompanied With Historical Notices and Observations. Alternate titles: CLOUD OF WITNESSES, and THE SCOTS WORTHIES, VOLUME SECOND . . . THEIR LAST WORDS AND DYING TESTIMONIES (COMBINES CLOUD AND NAPHTALI AS THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE SCOTS WORTHIES).
Howie, John (1735-1793), and William M'Gavin, Lives of the Scottish Covenanters: Being a Brief Historical Account of the Most Eminent Noblemen (1863)
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Innes, Taylor, John Knox, ISBN: 9784873940236 4873940230. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #1.
" 'The writer of this excellent little book does not profess to have indulged in original research in his preparation, nor does he claim to bring forth new facts concerning its subject. He has, however, made a careful study of the previous biographies of Knox, and, above all, of the Reformer's own works . . . He has preferred to deal with the great outstanding periods of Knox's life and with the vital traits of his character. He has, in short, tried to produce a vivid impression of the man as he appeared to his contemporaries and as he was in his heart; and he has been wonderfully successful.' (cited in Critical Reviews Relating Chiefly to Scotland by David Hay Fleming)." -- Publisher
Irving, David, Memoirs of the Life and Writing of George Buchanan, ISBN: 1290228221 9781290228220.
Jackson, L. Charles, Riots, Revolutions, and the Scottish Covenanters: The Work of Alexander Henderson, ISBN: 9781601783738 1601783736.
*Johnston, Archibald, Diary of Sir Archibald Johnston of Wariston, 3 volumes. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Also available in Hetherington, THE HISTORY OF THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY OF DIVINES.
"The introduction to this book cites Carlyle writing, 'Archibald Johnston of Wariston; . . . a Lord Register of whom all the world had heard. Redactor of the Covenanters' protests in 1637 and onwards; redactor perhaps of the Covenant itself; canny lynx-eyed Lawyer, and austere Presbyterian Zealot; full of fire, of heavy energy and gloom: in fact a very notable character.' The introduction further notes that Johnston was 'in some respects, one of the most interesting of the leading Scotsmen who lived in those troubled times which began with the Service Book riot, the swearing and subscription of the National Covenant, and the abjuration of Episcopacy in 1637-38, and ended with the overthrow of the Protectorate and the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 . . .' Calling Johnston the 'Covenanter politician,' the DICTIONARY OF SCOTTISH CHURCH HISTORY AND THEOLOGY states, 'From the start of the revolt against Charles I in 1637 he was at its centre, frequently acting as secretary to the rebel leaders and drafting their declarations. He and Alexander Henderson were joint authors of the National Covenant, and he frequently took part in negotiations with the King and the English Parliament in the years that followed. In 1638 he was appointed clerk to the General Assembly and procurator of the Church, and in 1641, he was knighted and appointed a Lord of Session. In 1643 he became one of Scotland's representatives at the Westminster Assembly, and in 1646 King's Advocate. He had from the start been identified with the most radical of the Covenanters, and in 1648 he helped inspire opposition to the Engagement. A leading figure in the Kirk Party regime of 1648-50, becoming Clerk Register in 1649, he was in the fore in demanding thorough purging and punishing of the ungodly in both Church and state. During the Cromwellian invasion of 1650-1 he supported the Western Remonstrance and the Protesters in virtually disowning the cause of Charles II. He refused to serve the regime of Oliver Cromwell at first, partly through opposition of the religious toleration it imposed (though he later backslid into accepting major positions under Cromwell's dictatorship -- RB) . . . After the Restoration he was denounced as a traitor for having served Cromwell, and fled into hiding abroad. He was discovered in France, brought back to Edinburgh and executed . . . being generally hated and despised. Yet through his remarkable diaries one can gain much understanding.' (pp. 446-447). Johnston, TREASURY OF THE SCOTTISH COVENANT (pp. 404-405), provides us with more insight into this fascinating saint (and these unparalleled times), in the following two quotations. 'For the lay elders there was the redoubted Johnston of Wariston, the most able and zealous of a group of lay statesmen who were as thorough warriors in the ecclesiastical department of the great struggle as the clergy themselves . . . He looked at the Covenant as the setting of Christ on His throne, and so was out of measure zealous in it. He afterwards, in old age and physical weakness, sealed it with his blood, his last words being 'The Lord has graciously comforted me; O pray, pray; praise, praise' (Burton). 'Wariston was a religious statesman. The standard of his policy was the Word of God; his great and governing aim, the Divine glory. And on this account his name has suffered obloquy from a quarter where all who would follow his steps may expect similar treatment, so long as society is comprised, as it still is to such an alarming extent, of the godless and unbelieving' (Dr. M'Crie). The TREASURY OF THE SCOTTISH COVENANT also notes that 'it is to Johnston that the world generally has attributed the project of renewing the Covenant (of 1638 -- RB). This was his master-stroke of policy.' It further informs us that 'on one occasion he continued in prayer during fourteen hours.' For a glimpse into the heart of the most thorough national (and international), Reformation thus far in history you will not get closer to the source than Johnston's rare three volume Diary! From the inner workings of the battle for the National covenant to Johnston's notes covering Cromwell, Owen's views on toleration, the Protester/Resolutioner controversy and much more, this is an exceedingly valuable historical resource. As the introduction so aptly puts it, 'the great Covenanter's Diary . . . contained many valuable passages with relation to the history of these times, nowhere else to be found.' Almost 1300 pages in total and indexed." -- Publisher
Johnston, Archibald, and Ruth E. Mayers, For Christ and Covenant: The Spirituality of Archibald Johnston of Wariston, ISBN: 9781894400367 1894400364.
Johnston, John C., Alexander Peden, The Prophet of the Covenant: An Appreciation, 1902. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Kerr, Robert P., The Blue Flag, or, The Covenanters who Contended for "Christ's Crown and Covenant," 1905.
King, Robert D., The Covenanters in the North: or, Sketches of the Rise and Progress, North of the Grampians, or The Great Religious and Social Movement of Which the Covenant of 1638 was the Symbol, 1846.
"The ANNALS OF THE COVENANT are an heirloom of the Scottish people, full of noble examples and associations in all that is heroic and devout, both in doing and suffering . . . Besides furnishing notices of these and others of whom the glimpses are less frequent (in other Covenanter histories, such as Andrew Cant the APOSTLE OF THE COVENANT and JAMES FRASER OF BREA -- RB) our local annals supply chapters in the history of the Covenant, peculiar to the only part of the country which met its first advances with the most determined opposition of its learning and its chivalry -- furnishing at once themes for the student of great principles, and scenes for the lovers of the picturesque, more rare in the history of the south . . . The reader will find that Mr. King has availed himself of many sources of information which, till lately, were difficult of access, or altogether sealed; and that his work contains much information which is to be found nowhere else in a popular form," (John Kennedy in the Preface). A stirring history book." -- Publisher
Laing, David, Biographical Notices of Thomas Young, 1870.
Lawson, John Parker, John Lothian, and David Hay Fleming, Life of George Wishart, the Most Distinguished Martyr for the Reformation in Scotland: With an Appendix Containing the Life and Murder of Cardinal Beaton, and Biographical Sketches of Gawin Dunbar and Sir David Lindsay. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #18.
"Had I taught men's doctrine, I had gotten great thanks by men; but for the word's sake and the true gospel, which was given to me by the grace of God, I suffer this day by men, not sorrowfully, but with a glad heart and mind." -- George Wishart (1513-1546), while fixed to a stake moments before being burned alive.
Lindsay, Alexander Crawford, Lives of the Lindsays; or, A Memoir of the Houses of Crawford and Balcarres, 1849.
Macewen, Alexander R. (Alexander Robertson, 1851-1916), The Erskines.
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*MacKenzie, Robert M.A., John Brown of Haddington [1722-1787], ISBN: 1173221484 9781173221485. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #7.
Author of: TWO SHORT CATECHISMS MUTUALLY CONNECTED, THE ABSURDITY AND PERFIDY OF ALL AUTHORITATIVE TOLERATION OF GROSS HERESY, BLASPHEMY, IDOLATRY, AND POPERY IN BRITAIN (including his defense of the continuing obligation of the solemn league and covenant), THE SELF-INTERPRETING BIBLE, THE PSALMS OF DAVID IN METRE (his notes on the psalms), A COMPENDIOUS HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND OF THE PROTESTANT CHURCHES IN IRELAND AND AMERICA, THE HARMONY OF SCRIPTURE PROPHECIES, to name the better known.
"The encouraging story of a peasant farmer who became a great preacher." -- Cyril J. Barber
He was the grandfather of John Brown (of Edinburgh 1784-1858).
MacLean, Isabelle McCall, The Scottish Covenanter Genealogical Index (1630-1712), ISBN: 9780595420407 0595420400.
"This work evolved out of a love for my ancestors, one being John Whitelaw, the Covenanter Monkland Martyr, who was executed for his religious beliefs in Edinburgh, 1683. While searching for his records I came across reference to thousands of other Scottish Covenanters. This INDEX lists those Covenanters found in some books written about the period between 1630 and 1712. There are many, many more Covenanters, whose names need to be added to this work, and, God willing, I will do it.
"The Covenanters were steadfast in their Presbyterian beliefs and refused to take an oath unto the King stating that he was the head of the church. They believed that Christ was the Head of the Church and their loyalty to this belief allowed them to lay their lives down for it. The Royalists and Dragoons, who were seeking to bring them into obedience to the King, relentlessly chased the Covenanters from glen to glen. This disregard for their civil rights was brutally carried out basically in the Lowlands of Scotland.8
"Many of their records were destroyed along with their lives and their stories only live in family lore and books that were written about them. I have extracted some of their names and created The Scottish Covenanter Genealogical Index, which is by no means complete, but is a work in progress."
About the Author: "I learned to love my Covenanter ancestors at the knees of my father, James McCall MacLean and my grandfather, Thomas McCall McLean. As many Covenanter records had been destroyed during the 'killing times' in Scotland, only scanty histories and some court records remained. What I found, I indexed for myself and for other family history researchers.
You can contact the author at www.isabellemmaclean.com." -- Publisher
MacPherson, Hector, The Cameronian Philosopher: Alexander Shields. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"Much literature has been called forth by the Covenanting movement in Scotland, and my sole reason for adding another volume to the library of Covenanting history and biography is that one of the greatest of the Covenanting leaders has been allowed to sink into a quite unmerited oblivion.
"Alexander Shields, who was after the execution of James Renwick the acknowledged leader of the Cameronian remnant, was one of the most picturesque figures in the Scotland of his day . . . he lived dangerously and died young; and it is indeed strange that no biography of this remarkable man has yet been attempted . . . He was a man of thought, and he may with some justice be called 'the Cameronian philosopher,' for in his greatest work, 'A Hind let Loose,' he expounded . . . the philosophy of what might be called Radical Calvinism . . . He is worthy to rank with Buchanan and Rutherford among the chief Scottish protagonists [concerning Calvinistic political theory.]" -- Preface
"Though MacPherson is exceedingly weak in expressing some points of the hard-edged Cameronianism of Shields, the book is still useful for much of the information that it contains. It also helps set the context for Shield's masterful and revolutionary work A HIND LET LOOSE, a book easily in the class of Rutherford's famous LEX REX." -- Publisher
MacPherson, Hector, Outlaws for Freedom: Sketches of the Persecuted Covenanters, 1956.
McCoy, Florence N., Robert Baillie and the Second Scots Reformation, 1974, ISBN: 0520024478 9780520024472.
Bibliography: pp. 220-228.
*McFeeters, J.C. (James Calvin, 1848-1928), Sketches of the Covenanters. A Christian classic. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #1.
"Stirring accounts of sacrifice and martyrdom for the Reformed Faith that will bring tears to eyes of all but the backslidden. Follows the chain of events which gave Scotland two Reformations and a Revolution. Knox, the National Covenant, the Westminster Assembly, the Field Meetings, and much more is covered. The history of great battles for Christ and His royal rights are recounted in this moving history book. Sheds much light upon the warfare with the dragon for true liberty. One of our best history books, highly recommended!" -- Publisher
Sketches of the Covenanters
http://archive.org/details/sketchesofthecov13570gut
Sketches of the Covenanters
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13570
McLeod, John Niel (1806-1874), and First Reformed Presbyterian Church (New York, N.Y.), Testimonial to Rev. Dr. McLeod.
M'Crie, Thomas (the elder, 1772-1835), The Life of Alexander Henderson: Minister of Edinburgh, and one of the Commissioners From the Church of Scotland to the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, ISBN: 052404497X 9780524044971. Available (LIVES OF ALEXANDER HENDERSON AND JAMES GUTHRIE) on the Puritan Hard Drive.
M'Crie, Thomas (the elder, 1772-1835), The Life of Andrew Melville, 1856, 2 volumes.
"Almost 900 pages covering the life and work of Knox's successor. Melville raised the level of learning and education in Scotland to the point where it became a leading nation in this field. He also advanced much of the practical work concerning the purifying of the Presbyterian church, which Knox had started. Melville is often remembered for his bold rebuke of 'God's silly vassal,' King James VI, regarding the divine right of the true church to govern her own affairs, without unwarranted interference from the civil magistrate." -- Publisher
*M'Crie, Thomas (the elder, 1772-1835), Life of Knox, 1831. A Christian classic. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #1.
"Iain Murray, in his stirring introduction to Cunningham's HISTORICAL THEOLOGY writes, 'The third event marking the commencement of this spiritual movement was the publication of a book in 1811. It was the biography of John Knox by Thomas M'Crie. All over Scotland this work was used to revive the memory of the great Reformer and nothing could have been a more telling protest against the stifling influence of Moderatism. It brought many a student and minister into the experience once described by James Fraser of Bera in his Memoirs: 'When I read Knox, I thought I saw another scheme of divinity, much more agreeable to the Scriptures and to my experience than the modern.' M'Crie followed this up in 1819 with a biography of Knox's great successor, Andrew Melville, and these two books became known as the 'Iliad and Odyssey of the Scottish Church.' Just as Homer's heroes fired the hearts of many imitators so M'Crie's biographies aroused a holy ambition in many to follow the noble example of these two spiritual giants.
"M'Crie's work is an undisputed classic regarding this fiery reformer. It exhibits information on Knox and the Scottish Reformation which has been hid in manuscripts and books which are now little known or consulted. Knox may be the most pertinent Reformer to study in our day of widespread idolatry, pluralism, anti-Christian government, humanistic law, relativism, and the revival of that 'masterpiece of Satan,' Roman Catholicism. Read everything that you can get your hands on -- either by or about Knox; you'll never be the same again!" -- Publisher
Life of John Knox: Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland: with Biographical Notices of the Principal Reformers, and Sketches of the Progress of Literature in Scotland During the Sixteenth Century; and an Appendix, Consisting of Original Papers
https://archive.org/details/lifeofjohnkno00mcri
M'Crie, Thomas (the elder, 1772-1835), William Row, Andrew Dickson White, The Life of Mr. Robert Blair Containing his Autobiography, from 1593-1636, With Supplement to his Life, and Continuation of the History of the Times to 1680.
Morison, William, Andrew Melville. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #1.
"A part of the 'Famous Scots Series.' Melville picked up where John Knox left off. His opposition to the slavery of Romanism and Episcopalianism (one of the daughters of the mother of harlots), helped lead Scotland into the freedom, liberty and strength of Scripturally based Presbyterianism. Melville was not only the greatest ecclesiastical controversialist of his day, but also the most learned Scot of his time." -- Publisher
Murray, Thomas, Life of Rev. Samuel Rutherford . . . With an Appendix.
Napier, M. (editor), Memorials of Montrose and his Times, 1850, 2 volumes.
Nimmo, James (1645-1709), Narrative of Mr. James Nimmo Written for his own Satisfaction to Keep in Some Remembrance the Lord's way, Dealing, and Kindness Towards him, 1645-1709.
http://archive.org/details/narrativeofmrjam00nimmrich
Nisbet, John, A True Relation of the Life and Sufferings of John Nisbet in Hardhill, his Last Testimony to the Truth; With a Short Account of his Last Words on the Scaffold, December 4. 1685. Never Hitherto Published, Edinburgh, 1718. Available in Tweedie, SELECT BIOGRAPHIES II.
Orr, Robert Low, Alexander Henderson: Churchman and Statesman, 1919.
Peden, Alexander (1626-1686), The Life of Mr. Alexander Peden, of the Church of Scotland.
Alexander Peden at True Covenanter
http://www.truecovenanter.com/Peden.html
Peden, Alexander (1626-1686), and Thomas Cameron, Peden the Prophet: A Tail of the Covenanters.
Pollok, David, The Life of Robert Pollok: Author of "The Course of Time," With Selections From his Manuscripts, 1843.
*Purves, Jock, Fair Sunshine: Character Studies of the Scottish Covenanters, ISBN: 0851511368 9780851511368. Publishing history: The material in this volume consists of two works: SWEET BELIEVING, 1948, and FAIR SUNSHINE: FURTHER STUDIES OF THE SCOTTISH COVENANTERS (91 pages), 1957.
"I first read this book several years ago at the recommendation of my late father, who was a sovereign grace Baptist minister. . . .
"I would highly recommend this book to anyone. And anyone who reads this book will be truly blessed. If it were possible the book should have more than five stars." -- Reader's Comment
An Outline of Scottish 'Covenant History' in the 17th Century From Purves' Book FAIR SUNSHINE
http://www.ianpaisley.org/article.asp?cov_intro.htm
Rainy, Robert (1826-1906), and James Mackenzie, Life of William Cunningham, D.D: Principal and Professor of Theology and Church History, New College, Edinburgh, ISBN:0790557975 9780790557977. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"Cunningham (1805-1861), was Principal and Professor of Theology and Church History at New College, Edinburgh, during the mid-1800's. His four volume WORKS include the magisterial two volume set HISTORICAL THEOLOGY, DISCUSSIONS ON CHURCH PRINCIPLES and THE REFORMERS AND THE THEOLOGY OF THE REFORMATION. A volume of his SERMONS is also in print. In Iain Murray's introduction to HISTORICAL THEOLOGY he points out that 'in the days of Cunningham and Bannerman, New College, Edinburgh, rose to be the finest theological college in Europe.' Furthermore, concerning Cunningham's work in the General Assembly of 1832, he writes, 'and once more a young man arose to deliver a historic speech. Like Begg he was a new-comer to the Assembly's debates, but his tall figure and mass of curly hair quickly identified him as "Cunningham of Greenock".'
"When he sat down two hours later there was no mistaking the feeling of the Moderates. 'That's Andrew come back,' exclaimed one! Others were forced to think of young George Gillespie of the 17th century, who, having just arrived in London, in riding boots and with whip still in hand, delivered such a speech in the Westminster Assembly that his opponent, the great Selden, declared: 'This young man, by a single speech, has swept away the learning and labour of my life! . . . Those who heard Cunningham's speech that day,' write his biographers, 'speak of it with wonder to this day. Such power, wealth, and precision of language they had never heard. . . . In his first six years at Edinburgh he read and carefully classified 530 distinct volumes, not to mention pamphlets or magazines.' Cunningham's works are still much sought after today." -- Publisher
*Reid, H.M.B., A Cameronian Apostle: Being Some Account of John Macmillan of Balmaghie, 1896. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #30.
"The author wrote this book 'considering the renewed interest taken at present in questions of Church government and establishment,' noting that 'there seemed to be some room for a detailed treatment of a career which covers so interesting a period as that embraced between 1690 and 1750.' Macmillan is an important historical link to those who still fight for Christ's Crown and Covenant. 'For many years he fought the battle of the Covenants alone, and he fought it on lines of policy and wisdom.' states Reid. Furthermore, the author continues, 'I have tried to indicate his position among the 'Suffering Remnant' by calling him 'a Cameronian Apostle;' for, during the long period of 36 years, he was the sole ordained minister among the scattered congregations of the 'Society' people. The name seems not unfitting, and it receives a certain sanction from the authority of Dr. Cunningham, who styled him the 'high-priest' of the Societies . . . Further, Macmillan's story is also the record of the development of a most interesting side of Scottish Church life. He may be said, indeed, to have made the history of what, at last, became the Reformed Presbyterian Church. This is so true, that that Church long bore the popular name of the 'Macmillanites.' And the name of Macmillan is bound up with more than one congregation still existing.' An important book for those who would trace the backsliding of modern Presbyterianism (the neopresbyterians), and also be encouraged by the remnant of those who remain faithful to the position of the original Covenanters (the paleopresbyterians). This book's 308 pages includes illustrations and a detailed appendix containing important church documents." -- Publisher
Reid, H.M.B. (Henry Martyn Beckwith), The Kirk Above Dee Water, 1895. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
" 'This little book (128 pages) . . . embodies a few scattered notices of the Balmaghie Church since the year 1615 . . . The dominating figure in the following pages is, of course, the great Macmillan' (Preface). Here 'they went to hear the word of God properly preached' in the Kirk of the Hill Folk, which had never fyled its hands with 'an Erastian Establishment!' (Introduction). An interesting look at a Covenanter congregation." -- Publisher
Renwick, James (1662-1688), Antipas, or, The Dying Testimony of Mr. James Renwick, Minister of the Gospel, who Suffered at the Grass-market of Edinburgh, Feb. 17, 1688: His Sentence was Founded on These Following Heads: 1. Because he could not own James the VII, to be his lawful soverain, 2. Because he taught the unlawfulness of paying the cess expresly [sic] exacted for supressing of the faithful and free-preaching of the Gospel, 3. Because he taught, that it was the people's duty, to carry arms at the preaching of the Gospel (when it was persecuted), for defending of themselves, and resisting of unjust violence, 1688. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Robb, G.M., Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, and Covenanter Young People's Union, Covenant Recollections, 1959.
Roberts, William L. (1798-1864), The Covenanting Martyrs and Revival of the Covenants! Quoting the Reformed Presbyterian Catechism, Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #1.
http://www.swrb.com/newslett/actualnls/CovMart.htm
Reformed Presbyterian Catechism, William L. Roberts D.D.
http://archive.org/details/ReformedPresbyterianCatechism
Roberts, William L.
William Louis Roberts (1798-1864)
Biographical Sketch
http://www.covenanter.org/WLRoberts/williamlouisroberts.htm
Robinson, Hastings (editor), Original Letters Relative to the English Reformation Written During the Reigns of King Henry VIII., King Edward VI., and Queen Mary: Chiefly From the Archives of Zurich, 1846-47, 2 volumes. Alternate title: THE ZURICH LETTERS, OR THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SEVERAL ENGLISH BISHOPS AND OTHERS, WITH SOME OF THE HELVETIAN REFORMERS, DURING THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, ISBN: 155635049X 9781556350498. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"The greater part of these letters are now printed for the first time: they will be found to contain many details of interest, relative to various proceedings of that period, and occasionally to give much information respecting the customs and manners of the times, as well as the private history of the writers and other individuals to whom they refer. Bucer, Melanchthon, Calvin, Cranmer, Edward VI., Lady Jane Grey, Hooper, Ponet, Bullinger, Foxe, Goodman and a host of others either penned or received these letters. These letters where 'translated from authenticated copies of the autographs'.
"Taken chiefly from the Archives of Zurich, these letters have been translated from authenticated copies of the autographs for the Parker Society. The Parker Society was 'instituted for the publication of the works of the fathers and early writers of the Reformed English Church.' The editor notes that he 'refrains from any remarks upon the various topics treated in these letters; it being his desire, and the object of the Society, that the respective writers should speak for themselves.' Notes are added, however, 'for the purpose of throwing additional light upon the facts and circumstances recorded in the correspondence.' Calvin, Beza, Bullinger, Martyr, Farell, Zanchius, Coverdale, Queen Elizabeth and a host of others either penned or received these letters. Contains an extensive index and table of contents." -- Publisher
*Robinson, William J., A History of Windy Cove Presbyterian Church, Millboro Springs, Virginia, 1749-1976.
Rogers, Charles (editor), Three Scottish Reformers: Alexander Cunningham, Fifth Earl of Glencair, Henry Balnaves of Halhill, and John Davidson, Minister of Prestonpans, With Their Poetical Remains and Mr. Davidson's "Helps for Young Scholars in Christianity," 1874.
Ross, William (of Aberdour), Glimpses of Pastoral Work in the Covenanting Times: A Record of the Labours of Andrew Donaldson, Minister at Dalgety, Fifeshire, 1644-1662, 1877.
Rowan, Stephen N., Tribute to the Memory of Alexander McLeod, DD: A Discourse Delivered in the Presbyterian Church, Canal Street, New-York, on the Evening of the 10th of March, 1833.
*Rutherford, Samuel (1600-1661), and Andrew A. Bonar (1810-1892), Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of his Life and Biographical Notices of his Correspondents (Edinburgh, Scotland; Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth Trust, 2006), ISBN: 0851513883 9780851513881. With a biographical introduction by Andrew Bonar. Alternate title: JOSHUA REDIVIVUS: OR, THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-TWO RELIGIOUS LETTERS, BY SAMUEL RUTHERFOORD (sic). A Christian classic. Considered to be among the ten greatest books in the English language.
This reprint of the 1891 edition by Banner of Truth is considered to be the preferred edition. Notes: "First published 1664. This Banner of Truth edition reprinted from the 1891 edition [a facsimile reprint -- compiler], 1984. Includes indexes. Appendix: p. 735-744. Glossary: p. 718-733. Description: xx, 744 pages; illustrations."
Available (this 1891 edition plus The Original Preface to Samuel Rutherford's Letters [1664, 1783], and The Author's Testimony to the Covenanted Work of Reformation, Between 1638 and 1649, and also a large preface and postscript by the Rev. Mr. McWard) on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available (MP3 files of the same) on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available (this 1891 edition plus The Original Preface to Samuel Rutherford's Letters [1664, 1783], and The Author's Testimony to the Covenanted Work of Reformation, Between 1638 and 1649, and also a large preface and postscript by the Rev. Mr. McWard) on Reformation Bookshelf CD #10, #21.
"These letters will ever be precious to all who are sensible of their own, and the church's decay and corruptions." -- Andrew Bonar
"Like a strong winged eagle he soars into the highest heaven and with unblenched eye he looks into the mystery of love divine. . . . When we are dead and gone let the world know that Spurgeon held RUTHERFORD'S LETTERS to be the nearest thing to inspiration which can be found in all the writings of mere men." -- C.H. Spurgeon
"Hold off the Bible, such a book the world never saw." -- Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
Rutherford, Samuel, and Andrew A. Bonar, Letters of Samuel Rutherford (1904) (This also is a facsimile reprint of the 1891 edition, printed in 1904)
http://archive.org/details/lettersofsamuelr00ruthrich
Other editions:
Rutherford, Samuel, Joshua Redivivus: or, Three Hundred and Fifty two Religious Letters, by the Late . . . Mr. Samuel Rutherfoord (sic) . . . Divided Into Three Parts. . . . To Which is Added, the Author's Testimony to the Covenanted Work of Reformation, Between 1638 and 1649. . . . As Also, a Large Preface and Postscript . . . by the Rev. Mr. McWard, 1783.
Letters of Samuel Rutherford
http://www.ccel.org/rutherford/letters/letters.txt
Shields, Alexander (1660?-1700), The Life and Death of That Eminently Pious, Free, and Faithful Minister and Martyr of Jesus Christ, Mr. James Renwick: With a Vindication of the Heads of his Dying Testimony, 1806, 2nd edition. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #2.
*Shields, Alexander (1660?-1700), A Short Memorial of the Sufferings and Grievances Past and Present of the Presbyterians in Scotland Particularly of Them Called by Nick-name Cameronians, 1690.
Shields, Alexander (1660?-1700), A True and Faithful Relation of the Sufferings of the Reverend and Learned, Mr. Alexander Shields, Minister of the Gospel. Written with his own hand. Containing an account of his examinations and imprisonment at London; his being sent down to Scotland; . . . Together with a large and elaborate defence of the doctrine of resistance . . . Never before published. Alternate title: A TRUE AND FAITHFUL RELATION OF THE SUFFERINGS OF THE REVEREND AND LEARNED, MR. ALEXANDER SHIELDS, MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL. WRITTEN WITH HIS OWN HAND. CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS EXAMINATIONS AND IMPRISONMENT AT LONDON; HIS BEING SENT DOWN TO SCOTLAND; . . . TOGETHER WITH A LARGE AND ELABORATE DEFENCE OF THE DOCTRINE OF RESISTANCE . . . NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED, 1715. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Simpson, Robert, and the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication, Traditions of the Covenanters: or, Gleanings Among the Mountains, 3 volumes, 1841. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"The design of this collection is to preserve the memory of good men in the inferior ranks of society, whose worth and whose sufferings have not hitherto been recorded. Their names, though those of plain unlettered men, do not deserve to perish; and their posterity may, by contemplating the virtues of their ancestors, be stimulated to emulate their godliness." -- Publisher
Sloane, William M. (editor), and William Milligan Sloane, Life and Work of J.R.W. Sloane, D.D., Professor of Theology in the Reformed Presbyterian Seminary at Allegheny City, Penn. 1868-1886 and Pastor of the Third Reformed Presbyterian Church, New York, 1856-1868, ISBN: 133153805X 9781331538059. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
*Smellie, Alexander (1857-1923), Men of the Covenant: The Story of the Scottish Church in the Years of the Persecution, 534 pages, ISBN: 0851512127. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
" 'A great book dealing with one of the most inspiring periods of Church history,' said Dr. C. Gregg Singer. Brilliant sketches of Covenanter history addressed to ordinary readers who do not have the opportunity or leisure for protracted personal studies in this area. A testimony, as Smellie notes, to 'the dogged fighters for freedom in Church and State.' The great sufferings these Christians endured gave them a seriousness about the faith, and a 'vision' of the truth, which has been unequaled since -- stirring reading!" -- Publisher
"Recounts the events in seventeenth century Scotland in which men and women, bound by 'covenant' to Christ, laid down their lives for His cause. Recaptures the intensity, zeal, heroism, and faith of these martyrs, as well as the craftiness and cruelty of their persecutors. First published in 1903." -- Cyril J. Barber
Men of the Covenant, volume 1 of 2
http://archive.org/details/menofcovenant01smeluoft
Smith, Henry (1550-1600), and Thomas Fuller (1608-1661), The Works of Henry Smith: Including Sermons, Treatises, Prayers, and Poems: With Life of the Author, 2 volumes.
Smyth, Thomas (1808-1873), John William Flinn, and Jean Adger Flinn, Complete Works of Rev. Thomas Smyth, D.D. 10 volumes.
Includes biography.
Complete Works of Rev. Thomas Smyth, D.D. vol. 1 of 10.
http://archive.org/details/completeworks01smytuoft
*Spence, Thomas Hugh, Jr., The Presbyterian Congregation on Rocky River, ISBN: 1334726019 9781334726019.
One of Alexander Craighead's churches in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
Steele, David
Rev. David Steele (1803-1887)
A brief biography, genealogy, and links.
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/family/dsteele.html
Steele, David
David Steele (1803-1887), Co-founder of the Reformed Presbytery, June 24, 1840: Biographical Sketch.
"In 1840, he and Robert Lusk, together with several ruling elders, declined the ecclesiastical courts of the Reformed Presbyterian Church due to ecclesiastical tyranny. They erected the Reformed Presbytery, June 24, 1840. . . . In October, 1866, he removed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he pastored a small congregation of original Covenanters and established a theological school. . . . He held that the Reformed Presbyterian Church had departed from the attainments of the Reformation, especially in the matter of 'voluntary associations.' He devoted much of his writing to demonstrating this defection, chastising the Reformed Presbyterian Church for her treacherous defection from Covenanted Reformation. . . . He was a tremendous controversialist, and manifested great inflexibility of character, for which he was despised by 'false brethren.' Toward the end of his life (1884), he stated, 'The principles . . . for more than 40 years defended against many opponents -- especially "false brethren" -- I still believe to be founded upon the Scriptures and long experience, with developments among opponents, has tended to confirm my earlier convictions.' He died in the belief that the principles which he held and propagated would one day triumph in the earth."
http://www.covenanter.org/reformed/2015/6/29/david-steele-1803-1887
*Steele, David (1803-1887), Reminiscences: Historical and Biographical of a Ministry in the Reformed Presbyterian Church During Fifty Three Years, 1883. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #23.
David Steele, was the pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Congregation, Philadelphia.
"Since Steele forms a continuing theological link with the faithful General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland (1638-1649), this book is of great importance. Steele held to the attainments of the second (or covenanted), Reformation which gave us the Solemn League and Covenant and the Westminster Standards -- and other Covenanters who follow in this train (along with the British Covenanters, like Rutherford and Gillespie), are sometimes derisively branded as 'Steelites' or 'Cameronians'." -- Publisher
Reminiscences: Historical and Biographical, of a Ministry in the Reformed Presbyterian Church During Fifty Three Years, David Steele
"An autobiographical account of David Steele's long life and career as a theological gadfly, advancing historic Covenanter principles, to his wandering Reformed Presbyterian brethren."
http://www.covenanter.org/reformed/2016/4/26/reminiscences-historical-and-biographical-of-a-ministry-in-the-refd-presbyterian-church-during-fifty-three-years
Stevenson, Andrew (writer in Edinburgh), and William Augustus Clarke, An Abridgement of the Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Hog: Minister of the Gospel at Kiltearn, in Ross. Containing, Some Wonderful and Glorious Displays of the Divine Condescension to him, and to Others by him. To which is Annexed, an Abstract of Mr. Hog's manner of dealing with souls under their first awakenings. By W. Augustus Clarke. This account is truly worthy the perusal of every Gospel Minister, and every true Follower of the Lamb, Edinburgh, 1756.
Struthers, A.L., Life and Letters of John Paterson Struthers.
Taylor, James (1813-1892), The Scottish Covenanters.
The Scottish Covenanters
http://archive.org/details/MN5155ucmf_0
Temple, Oliver Perry (1820-1907), The Covenanter, the Cavalier, and the Puritan.
Chiefly a history of the Scotch Covenanters and their descendants in the United States.
Thomson, Andrew, Samuel Rutherford, 1889.
Thomson, James Pringle, Alexander Henderson the Covenanter (1583-1646). Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"The period which followed the Union of the Crowns of Scotland and England contains the opening of that contest between Presbytery and Episcopacy, which occupies so much of our history, and some of its most interesting episodes took place between 1618-1646, the years which comprise the active public life of him who is the subject of the following pages. For this reason the life and career of Alexander Henderson must always possess the greatest interest to any student of Scottish history . . . The virtues of the great are apt to be overestimated after they are dead and gone, but there is not one word of exaggeration in the eulogy which Baillie delivered to the General Assembly in 1647, . . . 'That glorious soul of blessed memory, who now is crowned with the reward of all his labours for God and for us, I wish his remembrance may be fragrant among us, so long as free and pure Assemblies remain in this land, which we hope shall be to the coming of the Lord. You know he spent his strength, and wore out his days, he breathed out his life in the service of God and of his Church. This binds it on our back, as we would not prove ungrateful, to pay him his due. If the thoughts of others be conformed to my inmost sense, in duty and reason, he ought to be accounted by us and posterity the fairest ornament, after John Knox, of incomparable memory, that we the Church of Scotland did enjoy.' (pp. 5, 158). Henderson had a major hand in the writing of and international subscription to the Solemn League and Covenant. He was also one of the Scottish commissioners to the Westminster Assembly." -- Publisher
Alexander Henderson (1583-1646), the Covenanter, Thomson
http://archive.org/details/alexanderhenders00thomuoft
Thomson, James Pringle, The Scottish Covenanters 1637-1688.
*Thomson, John Henderson (editor), John McMain, and David Scott (introduction) A Cloud of Witnesses for the Royal Prerogatives of Jesus Christ Being the Last Speeches and Testimonies of Those who Have Suffered for the Truth in Scotland Since . . . 1680. Alternate title: THE FIFTEENTH EDITION, ENLARGED AND CORRECTED: A CLOUD OF WITNESSES, FOR THE ROYAL PREROGATIVES OF JESUS CHRIST: OR, THE LAST SPEECHES AND TESTIMONIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED FOR THE TRUTH IN SCOTLAND, SINCE THE YEAR 1680: WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE QUEENSFERRY PAPER; TORWOOD EXCOMMUNICATION; A RELATION CONCERNING MR. RICHARD CAMERON, MR. DONALD CARGIL, AND HENRY HALL; AND AN ACCOUNT OF THOSE WHO WERE KILLED WITHOUT PROCESS OF LAW, AND BANISHED TO FOREIGN LANDS: WITH A SHORT VIEW OF SOME OF THE OPPRESSIVE EXACTIONS, ISBN: 0873779231. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
"With the Testimonies of John Nisbet the Younger, John Nisbet of Hardhill, Robert Miller, Thomas Harkness, &c. A Letter of John Semple's and of Archibald Stewart's. The Paper found upon Mr. Cameron at Airsmoss, and an Acrostick upon his name. The Testimony of John Finlay in Kilmarnock. The Epitaphs upon the Grave Stones of Mr. Samuel Rutherford, Mr. John Welwood, and the noble Patriots who fell at Pentland-hills, &c.
"Also includes THE TESTIMONY OF SOME PERSECUTED PRESBYTERIAN MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL, UNTO THE COVENANTED REFORMATION OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, AND TO THE PRESENT EXPEDIENCY OF CONTINUING TO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN THE FIELDS, AND AGAINST THE PRESENT ANTI-CHRISTIAN TOLERATION IN ITS NATURE AND DESIGN, &C. GIVEN IN TO THE MINISTERS AT EDINBURGH, BY MR. JAMES RENWICK, UPON THE 17TH JAN. 1688. AND MR. RICHARD CAMERON'S LAST SERMON; PREACHED ON KYPE WATER IN EVANDALE, JULY 18TH, 1680, THREE DAYS BEFORE HE WAS KILLED AT AIRS-MOSS. (Pittsburgh: Printed for David Reed, by Eichbaum & Johnston, 1824), 1884 edition.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:1,2)
"Presbyterian Covenanter martyrs of Scotland, their last speeches and testimonies. The first edition appeared in 1714, and as more material was collected it was added to the 15 editions that were printed over the next 100 years.
"An amazing book compiled to show how -- and especially why (from their own dying testimonies) -- the Covenanters suffered, bled and died. These brave martyrs for Christ laid the foundation for liberty and truth in both church and state. They have much to say to us today . . . . Though the issues and ferocity of persecution (by the Popes, prelates, and Erastians), were more obvious during the times covered in this book, the message to contemporary Christians could not be clearer: we are involved in a life and death struggle. Few books are this moving or this edifying -- a real treasure! (658 pp., 1884 edition)." -- Publisher
The 1871 edition was praised by Spurgeon.
A Cloud of Witnesses
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A Cloud of Witnesses, 1871 edition, free online e-text.
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Traill, Robert (1642-1716), The Works of the Late Reverend Robert Traill, Vol. 1.
"Notes: Vol. 1 contains 'An account of the life and character of the author'."
*Tweedie, W.K. (1803-1863, editor), Tweedie, Scottish Puritans: Select Biographies, 2 volume set, 568 pages and 552 pages, ISBN: 9781848710160 184871016X 9780851519692 0851519695 9780851519708 0851519709. Alternate title: SCOTTISH PURITANS: SELECT BIOGRAPHIES, CHIEFLY FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE FACULTY OF ADVOCATES, EDINBURGH.
"This two-volume set is one of the great treasures of Scottish Christian literature. In quick succession, we meet such justly famous and revered figures as John Welsh, David Dickson, William Guthrie, and James Fraser of Brea, but also the lesser known and long forgotten, like the land-laborer of Carrick, John Stevenson. Here are the stories and reflections of men and women who, in times of great darkness, testing, and suffering, tasted what the author of Hebrews calls 'the powers of the age to come'. The 17th century was a dynamic period in Scottish church history, and yet many of its rich records lay hidden in privately owned manuscripts for two hundred years. It was only with the evangelical awakening of the 1840s that close attention was given to their publication, and a Society, formed for that purpose in Edinburgh, took the name of the historian, Robert Wodrow (1679-1734). On the 26 volumes thus published subsequent authors have depended heavily, and particularly so with respect to the two volumes originally entitled SELECT BIOGRAPHIES. In an era when Puritan literature is again being rediscovered their reprint is timely, providing as it does the opportunity to go back to first-hand sources. Here, for the most part, men and women live in their own words, or in the witness of their contemporaries. The 19th-century editor, William Tweedie, himself an evangelical leader, thought it worthwhile to be the editor of this rare material, and all who have possessed them endorse his judgment." -- Publisher
"When published by The Wodrow Society, the editor claimed that the books would be 'storehouses and authorities for future biographers and historians' and so it has proved. Many of the well-known stories are obviously taken from these sources. . . ."
Tweedie, Scottish Puritans: Select Biographies, Vol. 1
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Tweedie, Scottish Puritans: Select Biographies, Vol. 2
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Twisse, William (1577-1646), Henry Jeanes, John Goodwin, and Arthur Lake, The Selected Works of William Twisse, 6 volumes. Available (SELECT WORKS OF WILLIAM TWISSE) on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Volume 1 contains a biographical sketch.
Van Dyken, Seymour, Samuel Willard, 1640-1707: Preacher of Orthodoxy in an Era of Change, 1972, ISBN 0802834086.
Various, Tales and Sketches of the Covenanters: Being a Choice Selection of Narratives, Founded on Fact, in Connection With the Persecution Waged Against the Covenanters in Scotland 200 Years ago. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Didactic fiction.
Wagner, Michael, Forgotten Hero: The Autobiography of David Steele, 6 pages. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #1.
Walker, James, The Theology and Theologians of Scotland, 1560-1750
Walker, Patrick, An Account of the Remarkable Life and Death of the Reverend Mr. Alexander Peden . . . Who died January 28, 1686, about sixty years of age . . . London, 1774. Available (SIX SAINTS OF THE COVENANT: PEDEN, SEMPLE, WELWOOD, CAMERON, CARGILL, SMITH) on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Walker, Patrick, The Life and Prophecies of Mr. Donald Cargill [1619-1681]: Sometime Minister of the Barony Parish of Glasgow: Who Suffered Martyrdom for the Lord's Cause, With Four Others, at the Cross of Edinburgh, the 27th of July, 1681, and their heads put upon the ports. . . . Likewise, an account of his indictment, trial, sentence, and behaviour at the place of execution; . . . Also, a particular account of the great scarcity and dearth which took place at that time . . . To which is added, a short account of the life and untimely death of Argyle, who gave his casting-vote against Mr. Cargill. Also, a copy of the Torwood excommunication. Alternate titles: THE LIFE AND WONDERFUL PROPHECIES OF DONALD CARGILL: WHO WAS EXECUTED AT THE CROSS OF EDINBURGH, ON THE 26TH JULY, 1680, FOR HIS ADHERENCE TO THE COVENANT, AND WORK OF REFORMATION, and LIFE OF MR. DONALD CARGILL.
Walker, Patrick, Some Remarkable Passages in the Life and Death of That Singular Exemplary Holy in Life, Zealous and Faithful Unto the Death, Mr. Daniel Cargill: And With him Mr. Walter Smith, Mr. James Boig, William Cuthil, and William Thomson, 1732. Available (SIX SAINTS OF THE COVENANT) on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Walker, Patrick, Some Remarkable Passages of the Life and Death of These Three Famous Worthies . . . Mr. John Semple, Mr. John Welwood, Mr. Richard Cameron . . . Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available in
Walker, Patrick, and J. Duncan (editor), The Life and Death of the Reverend Mr. Alexander Peden . . . Who Died January 28, 1686, About Sixty Years of age. . . London, 1774. Abridged from THE LIFE OF MR. ALEXANDER PEDEN by Patrick Walker. Alternate title: AN ACCOUNT OF THE REMARKABLE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE REVEREND MR. ALEXANDER PEDEN: LATE MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL AT NEW GLENLUCE IN GALLOWAY, IN SCOTLAND. WHO DIED JANUARY 28, 1686, ABOUT SIXTY YEARS OF AGE. SINGULAR FOR PIETY, ZEAL AND FAITHFULNESS; BUT ESPECIALLY, WHO EXCEEDED ALL TO BE HEARD OF IN OUR LATE AGES, IN THAT GIFT OF FORESEEING OF EVENTS, AND FORETELLING WHAT WAS TO BEFAL THE CHURCHES AND NATIONS OF SCOTLAND AND IRELAND, PARTICULAR FAMILES AND PERSONS, AND OF HIS OWN LIFE AND DEATH.
Walker, Patrick, and David Hay Fleming, Six Saints of the Covenant: Peden, Semple, Welwood, Cameron, Cargill, Smith, 2 volumes, ISBN: 0790572621 9780790572628. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Walker, Patrick (compiler), Alexander Shields, William Wilson, Andrew Harley, Biographia Presbyteriana, 2 volumes. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #30.
Watson, Jean L., and John Ker (contributor), Life and Times of Rev. Alexander Peden (the Prophet), and James Renwick. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Watson, Robert, Prophet of the Covenant: An Exciting Novel About the Heroic, Dramatic Life of the Rev. Alexander Peden, Minister of the Covenanters, Known as Peden the Prophet. Apparently didactic fiction.
Weatherwax, Nancy, American Society of Church History. Meeting, Theological Research Exchange Network, Ladies of the Covenant: Interpreting a Heroic age, a microform, 1998.
Welch, John (1568?-1622), The Life, Correspondence, and Sermons of John Welch, Sometime Minister of the Gospel in Ayr
Whyte, Alexander (1836-1921), James Fraser, Laird of Brea [1639-1698], Parish Minister of Culross Bass Rock, Blackness, and Newgate Prisoner, and Author of "The Book of the Intricacies of my Heart and Life," 1911.
Whyte, Alexander (1836-1921), Samuel Rutherford and Some of his Correspondents; Lectures Delivered in St. George's Free Church, 1894.
Willcock, John, The Great Marquess: Life and Times of Archibald, 8th Earl, and 1st (and only), Marquess of Argyll (1607-1661), 1903.
Wodrow, Robert, and Matthew Leishman (preface), Analecta, or Materials for a History of Remarkable Providences Mostly Relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians, 4 volumes, 1842-1943.
Wodrow, Robert, and William James Duncan, Collections Upon the Lives of the Reformers and Most Eminent Ministers of the Church of Scotland, 3 volumes, 1834-1848.
Wodrow, Robert, and Robert Lippe, Selections From Wodrow's Biographical Collection: Divines of the North-east of Scotland, 1890.
Wodrow, Robert, and Thomas M'Crie, The Correspondence of the Rev. Robert Wodrow.
Wylie, James A. (1808-1890), James B. Gillies, Disruption Worthies. A Memorial of 1843. With an Historical Sketch of the Free Church of Scotland from 1843 Down to the Present Time, 1881, 2 volumes.
Wylie, Samuel B. (1773-1852), and John Niel McLeod (1806-1874, editor), Memoir of Alexander McLeod, 1855.
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I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. (2 Timothy 4:7)
It should be kept in mind that 'spiritual unity' [the unity between persons having the same objective faith in the Gospel -- compiler], is much more intimate than physical unity can be [Spiritual unity transcends geographical distance and transcends temporal time to eternity. Therefore, a Christian funeral, while bittersweet, is also a great celebration. The spirit may have left the body, but there is a love among the faithful that transcends space and temporal time into eternity, and that oneness is felt by the Elect at a funeral. -- compiler], and that such physical analogies of spiritual unity as the Lord's Supper and marriage, rather than exaggerating the intimacy of spiritual unity, do not even approach it. -- John W. Robbins commenting on Philemon 4-7 in Slavery Christianity
Bates, William (1625-1699), A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Mr. Richard Baxter (Luke 23:46). Available in THE WORKS OF THE LATE REVEREND AND LEARNED WILLIAM BATES Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Bates, William (1625-1699), and John Howe, The Works of the Late Reverend and Learned William Bates: To Which are Added two Discourses Never Before Published: Also Some Account of the Author's Life and Character in a Funeral Sermon Preach'd by the Reverend Mr. Howe: With an Alphabetical Table to the Whole. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Bates, William (1625-1699), and Thomas Manton (1620-1677), A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of the Reverend and Excellent Divine Dr. Thomas Manton, 1678. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Baxter, Richard (1615-1691), and Ely Bates, Biographical Collections: or Lives and Characters, From the Works of the Reverend Mr. Baxter, and Dr. Bates (with various additions interspersed), of the following excellent persons . . . Together with abstracts of their funeral sermons. . . . London, 1766, 2 volumes
Burnham, Richard, Pious Memorials; or, The Power of Religion Upon the Mind, in Sickness, and at Death: Exemplified in the Experience of Many Divines and Other Eminent Persons . . . By the late Mr. Richard Burnham . . . With a recommendatory preface, by . . . James Hervey . . . a new edition. To which is now added, a large appendix . . . Paisley, 1788.
Calamy, Edmund (1600-1666), Thomas Manton (1620-1677), Joseph Caryl (1602-1673), James Nalton (1600-1662), Thomas Lye (1621-1684), Ashe, Simeon (d. 1662), A Compleat Collection of Farewel Sermons Preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl . . . [et al.]; Together With Mr. Ash his Funeral Sermon, Mr. Nalton's Funeral Sermon, Mr. Lye's Rehearsal . . . With Their Several Prayers. Alternate title: A COMPLEAT COLLECTION OF FAREWEL SERMONS, PREACHED BY MR. CALAMY, DR. MANTON, MR. CARYL, MR. CASE, MR. JENKINS, MR. BAXTER, DR. JACOMB, DR. BATES, MR. WATSON, MR. LYE, MR. MEAD, DR. SEAMAN, MR. VENNING, MR. BROOKS, MR. COLLINGS, MR. NEWCOMEN, MR. BEERMAN, MR. CRADACOTT, MR. SCLATER, MR. PLEDGER, MR. BULL, MR. LAMB, MR. WADSWORTH, MR. COOPER, MR. G.N, MR. GASPINE, MR. EVANK, MR. GEO. THORN, TOGETHER, WITH MR. ASH HIS FUN. SERM, MR. NALTON'S FUN. SERM, MR. LYE'S REHEARSAL AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE LAST MORNING EXERCISE, AT ALHALLOWES LOMBARD-STREET, MR. CALAMY'S SERMON, PREACHED AT ALDERMANBURY, DECEMBER 28TH LAST, AND MR. WATSON'S SERMON AGAINST POPERY, WITH THEIR SEVERAL PRAYERS. Contains 42 sermons. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Case, Thomas (1598-1682), The Excellent Woman, a Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Scott, Dec. 16, 1658. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Case, Thomas (1598-1682), The Imitation of the Saints, Opened in Some Practical Meditations Upon the Death of Mrs. Anne Brown, Late Wife of Mr. Peter Brown of Hammersmith. Alternate title: HAGIO-MIMESIS.
Case, Thomas (1598-1682), The Vanity of Vain Glory, Opened in a Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Kingsmel Lucy, Esq, 1655. Alternate title: ASARKOKAUKEMA, OR, THE VANITY OF VAINE-GLORY: OPEN'D IN A SERMON PREACHED AT THE FUNERAL OF KINGSMEL LUCY, ESQ., ELDEST SONNE TO FRANCIS LUCY, ESQ. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Davies, Samuel (1723-1761), Thomas Gibbons, and Samuel Finley, Sermons on Important Subjects.
Elliot, Richard, James Mathews, W. Watts, Thomas Fisher, and E. and C. Dilly (firm), Grace and Truth, or A Summary of Gospel Doctrine, Considered in a Funeral Discourse Preached on the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield.
Falwell, Jerry, Dr. Jerry Falwell's Funeral, May 22, 2007
Falwell, Jerry, Rev. Jerry Falwell Memorial (1933-2007) May 22, 2007
Gataker, Thomas (1574-1654), and Richard Sibbes (1577-1635), Christian Constancy Crowned by Christ. A Funerall Sermon on Apocalyps 2.10 [Revelation 2:10], preached at the buriall of M. VVilliam Winter, citizen of London; together with the testimonie then giuen vnto him. By Thomas Gataker, B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith, 1624.
Graham, Ruth Bell, Funeral Address of Richard White, Pastor of Montreat Presbyterian Church, June 16, 2007 (Ruth Bell Graham, 1920-2007)
Guthrie, James (1612?-1661), The Ordinary of Newgate his Account, of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words of the Malefactors who Were Executed at Tyburn, on Monday the 12th of This Instant February, 1728.
Henry, Matthew (1662-1714), and Philip Henry (contributor), The Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Matthew Henry: Containing in Addition to Those Heretofore Published, Numerous Sermons now First Printed From the Original Mss.: an Appendix on What Christ is Made to Believers, in Forty Real Benefits, by Philip Henry: Funeral Sermons for Mr. and Mrs. Henry, by the Rev. Matthew Henry: Funeral Sermons on Mr. Matthew Henry, by W. Tong, John Reynolds, and Dr. Williams.
Hodge, Charles (1797-1878), Mourning a Beloved Shepherd: Memorial Sermons for James W. Alexander (1804-1859), ISBN: 193247465X 9781932474657.
[Kennedy, D. James], D. James Kennedy Memorial (1930-2007), September 13, 2007
Love, Christopher (1618-1651), Grace: The Truth and Growth and Different Degrees Thereof. The Summe and Substance of XV. Sermons. Preached by that faithful and painful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of Lawrence Jury, London. They being his last sermons. To which is added a funeral sermon, being the very last sermon he ever preached, 1652.
Love, Christopher (1618-1651), The Last Speech and Testimony of Mr. Christopher Love, Minister of Laurence Jury, London; Who Suffered Martyrdom on Tower Hill, Aug. 22d 1651, for suspected ploting [sic] against Oliver Cromwel's government delivered to the people from the scaffold.
Love, Christopher (1618-1651), The True and Perfect Speech of Mr. C. Love on the Scaffold on Tower-hill . . . Comprizing his Funerall Sermon; His Exhortation to the Citizens; His Propositions Touching Religion; and His Prayer . . . Together With Mr. Gibbons his Speech; and The Manner of his Deportment, etc.
Manton, Thomas (1620-1677), A Sermon Preached at the Funerall of M. Christopher Love, in St. Laurence Church, August, 25. 1651. By Thomas Manton, Minister of the Gospell at Stoak-Newington Near London, 1651.
Marshall, Stephen (1594?-1655), George Glover, and Stephen Bowtell, Threnodia = The Churches Lamentation for the Good man his Losse Isa. 57:1: Delivered in a Sermon to the Right Honourable the two Houses of Parliament, and the Reverend Assembly of Divines, at the Funerall of that Excellent man John Pym, Esquire, Late a Member of the Honourable House of Commons, 1644. [Isaiah 57:1]
McDonald, John, and John Lynd, In Memoriam: Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Chancellor, Belfast. A Sermon Preached on the Occasion of the Death of Rev. Professor Chancellor, D.D., on the 16th of June, 1895, and a Brief Memoir.
McLeod, John Niel (1806-1874), First Reformed Presbyterian Church (New York, N.Y.), The Dying Christian's Estimate of Heaven: A Discourse in Memory of the Late Rev. Andrew W. Black, D.D., Professor in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Delivered in the First Reformed Presbyterian Church, New York, on Sabbath, Nov. 21st, 1858.
McLeod, John Niel (1806-1874), Preparation for Death the Business of Life. A Discourse on the Death of Rev. Samuel Brown Wylie, D.D., 1852.
McMaster (M'Master), Gilbert (1778-1854), The Upright man in Life and at Death: A Discourse Delivered, Sabbath Evening, November 7, 1852, on the Occasion of the Decease of the Rev. Samuel Brown Wylie, D.D., 1852.
M'Millan (McMillan), John, An Elegy Upon the Death of Mrs. Mary Gordon, Spouse to the Reverend Mr. John M'Millan, Minister of the Gospel at Balmaghie, 1723.
Owen, John (1616-1683), A Complete Collection of the Sermons of the Reverend and Learned John Owen, D.D. . . . Also several valuable tracts, now first published from manuscripts: . . . And to the whole are prefix'd Memoirs of his life: some letters written by him upon special occasions: and his funeral sermon, preach'd by Mr. David Clarkson.
Palmer, Samuel (minister at Hackney, 1741-1813), The Dying Believer's Confidence and joy in Christ. A Sermon [on 2 Tim. i. 12 (2 Timothy 1:12)] Preached . . . April 12, 1778, on Occasion of the Death of the Rev. Samuel Wilton, D.D. . . . By Samuel Palmer. To which is added, an oration at his interment in Bunhill-fields, April 10, by Samuel Morton Savage, D.D.
Palmer, Samuel (minister at Hackney, 1741-1813), The True Patriot. A Sermon, on the Much Lamented Death of John Howard, L.L.D. F.R.S. Preached at Hackney, his Native Place. With Memoirs of his Life and Character. By Samuel Palmer . . . London, 1790.
Pemberton, Ebenezer, and Benjamin Colman, A Funeral Sermon on the Death of That Learned and Excellent Divine, the Reverend Mr. Samuel Willard, pastor of a Church of Christ in Boston, and Vice-President of Harvard College, who deceased Slept. 12, 1707.
Rowan, Stephen N., Tribute to the Memory of Alexander McLeod, DD: A Discourse Delivered in the Presbyterian Church, Canal Street, New-York, on the Evening of the 10th of March, 1833.
Shields, Alexander (1660?-1700), An Elegy Upon the Death of That Famous and Faithful Minister and Martyr Mr. James Renwick. Composed, After his Execution at Edinburgh, February, 17th, 1688. By Mr. Alexander Shields.
*Sibbes, Richard (1577-1635), The Saints Safetie in Evill Times Delivered at St Maries in Cambridge the Fift of November, Upon Occasion of the Povvder-plot; Whereunto is annexed a Passion-sermon preached at Mercers Chappel, London, upon Good-Friday; as also the happiness of enjoying Christ, laid open at the funerall of Mr. Sherland . . . by R. Sibbes . . . 1634. Available (THE WORKS OF RICHARD SIBBES), on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Spurstowe, William (1605?-1666), A Crown of Life, the Reward of Faithfulnesse Being a Sermon Preached Septemb. 12, 1661 at the Funerals of Mr. William Taylor M.A. Minister of the Gospel, at Saint Stephens Coleman-street, London / by William Spurstowe, 1662. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Steele, David (1803-1887), Endless Life the Inheritance of the Righteous: A Discourse Delivered in the First Reformed Presbyterian Church, New York, on Sabbath, October 11, 1874, in Memory of Rev. John N. McLeod, D.D., the Pastor.
Steele, David (1826-1906), and Robert Hunter, In Memory of the Rev. David Steele, D.D., LL.D. (1826-1906), 66 pages. Alternate title: IN MEMORY OF THE REV. DAVID STEELE, D.D., LL.D, FOR FORTY-FIVE YEARS PASTOR OF THE FOURTH REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION OF PHILADELPHIA AND PROFESSOR IN THE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN SEMINARY AT PHILADELPHIA FOR FORTY-THREE YEARS . . .
Symington, William (1795-1862), Departed Worth of Greatness Lamented: A Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Andrew Symington, 1853.
Toplady, Augustus (1740-1778), A Memoir of Some Principal Circumstances in the Life and Death of the Reverend and Learned Augustus Montague Toplady . . . To Which are Added, Written by Himself, The Dying Believer's Address to his Soul, and his own last will and testament. The second edition, London, 1778.
Toplady, Augustus (1740-1778), The Reverend Mr. Toplady's Dying Avowal of his Religious Sentiments.
Vines, Richard (1600?-1656), and Thomas Jacombe (1622-1687), XII Sermons Preached Upon Several Publick Occasions by Richard Vines. To which is adjoined the sermon preached at his funeral by Thomas Jacomb, 1658.
Wesley, Charles, An Elegy on the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield: Who Died at Newbury-Port, on Sunday the 30th of September, 1770.
Wesley, John, A Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield: Preached at the Chapel in Tottenham-Court-Road, and at the Tabernacle Near Moorfields, on Sunday, November 18, 1770. By John Wesley, M.A. Late Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxon: and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Countess Dowager of Buchan.
Williams, Daniel (1643?-1716), Christian Sincerity: Described in a Funeral Sermon June the First, 1707. Occasion'd by the death of . . . Mr. Thomas Doolittle, M.A. By Daniel Williams. Available in DISCOURSES [OF DANIEL WILLIAMS] ON SEVERAL IMPORTANT SUBJECTS.
Williams, Daniel (1643?-1716), A Funeral Sermon Upon Occasion of the Death of the Reverend Mr. Matthew Henry. Preach'd at Hackney, June the 27th. 1714. By Daniel Williams, D.D., 1714.
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"Covers the lives of Peden, Semple, Welwood, Cameron, Cargill and Smith. These two volumes are edited with illustrative documents, introduction, notes, and a glossary by David Hay Fleming. Walker's advantage in writing of these men, as Hay Fleming points out, can be seen in 'that he lived in the times of which he wrote, that he personally knew many of the Covenanters and martyrs of whom he wrote, and that he was himself a shrewd observer and was endowed with a tenacious memory.' Walker himself had endured imprisonment and torture for the Covenanted cause of Christ and Burton writes that his 'unadorned descriptions of suffering and heroism convey a lesson to the heart which no genius or learning could strengthen,' indexed." -- Publisher
Six Saints of the Covenant: Peden, Semple, Welwood, Cameron, Cargill, Smith, vol. 1 of 2
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Six Saints of the Covenant: Peden, Semple, Welwood, Cameron, Cargill, Smith, vol. 2 of 2
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" 'If Peden was the John the Baptist of the Covenant, Renwick was John the Evangelist,' writes Ker in his introduction.
"There is no doubt that these courageous men were instrumental in carrying the covenanted testimony through some very dark and trying days -- and each blessed of God with extraordinary gifts. Their work and suffering (and that of many others), is commemorated in a stanza from a poem quoted at the head of the section on Peden. It reads:
'Speed on, thou Covenanted cause! God's blessing upon thee!
"In that memorable 50 years' struggle (1638-1688), there is gathered a mass of religious intensity, sacrifice and scholarship, such as perhaps no other period of Scottish history can excel. It is estimated that 18,000 people suffered poverty, torture, banishment, or death. Truly the hills were drenched with the blood of the martyrs.
Baptized in Scotland's dearest blood albeit thou needs must be:
Christ came not to send peace on earth, only may that red rain,
Still fructify thy living seed, till His return again!'
" 'Scotland has had two Reformations -- the first in the 16th century, associated with the name of John Knox; the second in the 17th century, enriched by a galaxy of famous men.' (Cameron, Peden the Prophet, p. 1).
"This book deals will two of the 'stars' in this galaxy. Alexander Peden was universally known as the Prophet of the Covenant. For 23 years, this exiled minister roamed the Scottish country side to evade persecution Ker called him the 'John the Baptist of the Scottish Covenant.'
"Renwick was the last, and among the most eloquent, of the martyrs of the 'killing times.' Ker writes that 'the letters of Renwick remind one not infrequently of those of Rutherford.'
"Stirring history full of edifying truth, not only concerning personal piety and faithful endurance amidst much suffering, but also as a reminder as to how much we owe the Scottish Covenanters for their testimony to biblically based civil and religious order, purity of worship, and an uncompromising love for the truth. Includes some letters and sermons by Peden and some letters from Renwick." -- Publisher
Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 15-16).
See: *Anderson, James (1748?-1830), LADIES OF THE COVENANT, 1851.
http://www.truecovenanter.com/welch/index.htm
"Definitive account of the life of a 'father' of the Reformed Presbyterian Church."
Memoir of Alexander McLeod
http://archive.org/details/memoirofalexander00wyl
Related Weblinks
James Stewart and John Knox: Scotland's "Two Sons of oil," excerpted from John Howie's Scots Worthies, 1781 ed., narrated by Larry Birger, Jr., audio file. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #1.
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?sermonid=122501142339
WorldCat's subject heading Covenanter Biography has about 90 citations having to do with the Scottish covenanter struggle.
http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=su%3ACovenanters+Biography.&fq=&dblist=638&qt=first_page
Funeral Sermons of Saints
I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. (John 11:25b-26a)
John 11:25,26 is the most frequently read passage at funerals.
See also: Lazarus Seaman, THE SECOND AND LAST COLLECTION OF THE LATE LONDON MINISTERS FAREWEL SERMONS.
"THE EXCELLENT WOMAN examines the book of Proverbs to teach of the value and character of the virtuous woman. In the forward Dr. William Sprague writes, 'This is a work that will bear to be read more than once, and each successive reading will be likely to reveal some new gem of thought, which, in the general mass of excellence, had been overlooked before. It is a book suitable for the husband to present to his wife, the mother to her daughter, and the brother to his sister; and the more widely it is circulated, the better for the country and the world'." -- Publisher
"To which are prefixed, memoirs and character of the author, and two sermons on occasion of his death, by the Rev. Drs. Gibbons and Finley."
http://www.trbc.org/new/resources.php?p=3
http://www.cbn.com/vod/index.aspx?s=/vod/falwellfuneral&title=Jerry%20Falwell%20Memorial%20Service&home=/video/special/jerryfalwell.aspx
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/misc?URL=/templates/ArticleMultiMediaPopup.pbs&Date=99999999&ArtNo=70616042&Category=BILLYGRAHAM02&ObjectClass=10&Params=Id=76847
Some of her favorite Scripture were read during the ceremony: Psalm 90, Psalm 1, Psalm 23, and Romans 8. Other favorites of Ruth mentioned during the service were:
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. (Jeremiah 29:11)
Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. (Psalm 25:4,5)
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. (Lamentations 3:25)
O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. (Psalm 90:14)
Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. (Psalm 37:4).
See Isaac Taylor's comments in THE TREASURY OF DAVID link below. He begins by saying "The 90th Psalm might be cited as perhaps the most sublime of human compositions -- the deepest in feeling -- the loftiest in theologic conception -- the most magnificent in its imagery." Recommend are the commentary of both Spurgeon and others on the first and last verses, 1 and 17. All are found in the following link:
The Treasury of David, Psalm 90, C.H. Spurgeon
http://archive.spurgeon.org/treasury/ps090.php
See also:
The Treasury of David, Psalm 1, C.H. Spurgeon
http://archive.spurgeon.org/treasury/ps001.php
The Treasury of David, Psalm 23, C.H. Spurgeon
http://archive.spurgeon.org/treasury/ps023.php
And Matthew Henry's commentary on Romans 8:
Romans 8 With Matthew Henry's Commentary
http://www.biblestudytools.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?new=1&word=Rom+8§ion=0&version=kjv&showtools=1&language=en
Ruth Bell Graham: A Lifetime Pilgrimage
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=BILLYGRAHAM02
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/230783.aspx
John Owen Funeral Sermon, David Clarkson, narrated by Tom Sullivan, Philippians 3:21
https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=9719024367138&fbclid=IwAR1_K5642e1rEPztTFGpvpw6dzMI9aabGdmgGPxy49mTDH7V2b-XLOtwWgY
The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes
http://books.google.com/books?id=5CI3AAAAMAAJ&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html
The author and subject is David Steele (1826-1906), who was a nephew of David Steele (1803-1887).
"In 1853 the Rev. Dr. David Steele, Sr., an uncle of Dr. Steele, then residing in Adams Co., Ohio, and one of the foremost exponents of the Covenanter faith in the United States, visited Ireland, the result of which was that there was deepened in the mind of the nephew an intense longing to enter the ministry.
"He spent his first Sabbath in Philadelphia, worshiping in the Second Reformed Presbyterian Church (O.S.) located on 17th Street below Race Street, of which the Rev. Dr. S.O. Wylie was pastor. Shortly afterwards, he went to Adams Co., Ohio, and made his home with his uncle, Rev. David Steele, Sr., who had been instrumental in bringing him to a final decision to study for the ministry. Under his uncle's tuition, who was a proficient classical scholar, he made his final preparation for college, entering the Junior class in Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1857, taking the classical honors in a graduating class which numbered thirty-six. Chancellor Henry M. McCraken of the New York University, and Dr. John S. Billings, Librarian of the New York Public Library were among his classmates, and President Harrison and the Hon. Whitelaw Reid were students in the college at that time though not classmates.
"He entered upon the formal study of theology in 1859 in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Presbyterian Church (General Synod) in Philadelphia, having for his preceptors the Rev. Dr. John Niel McLeod and the Rev. Dr. Theodore W. J. Wylie."
In Memory of the Rev. David Steele, D.D., LL.D.: For Forty-Five Years Pastor of the Fourth Reformed Presbyterian Congregation of Philadelphia and Professor in the Reformed Presbyterian Seminary at Philadelphia for Forty-three Years. (1907)
"For forty-five years pastor of the Fourth Reformed Presbyterian Congregation of Philadelphia and professor in the Reformed Presbyterian Seminary at Philadelphia for forty-three years . . ."
http://books.google.com/books?id=bcAEAAAAYAAJ&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html
In Memory of the Rev. David Steele, D.D., LL.D. (1826-1906)
http://www.archive.org/details/inmemoryofrevdav00stee
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, Sermon 53 (text of the 1872 edition)
http://www.ccel.org/w/wesley/sermons/sermons-html/serm-053.html
"Includes A funeral sermon of Daniel Williams by John Evans."
Related Weblinks
John Owen Funeral Sermon, David Clarkson, narrated by Tom Sullivan, Philippians 3:21
https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=9719024367138&fbclid=IwAR1_K5642e1rEPztTFGpvpw6dzMI9aabGdmgGPxy49mTDH7V2b-XLOtwWgY
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