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Pastor Albert N. Martin (11 April 1934–7 April 2026)

Albert Newton Martin passed into glory on 7 April, just a few days short of his 92nd birthday. He was raised in a Christian home, the second of eleven children born to George and Mildred Martin. Although he always gave intellectual assent to the truths of Scripture taught faithfully by his parents and made repeated […]

Author Warren Peel

Category Obituaries

Date April 10, 2026

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On Meditation: An Excerpt from The Works of Thomas Watson

The following is excerpted from ‘A Christian on the Mount, Or, A Treatise Concerning Meditation’ in The Works of Thomas Watson, Volume 3 (forthcoming, May/June 2026). You may also read this section in PDF format to see how it is typeset in the forthcoming volume.   And in his law doth he meditate day and […]

Author Thomas Watson

Category Book Excerpts

Date April 10, 2026

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The Works of Watson: Publisher’s Preface

What follows is from the ‘Publisher’s Preface’ to our forthcoming five-volume edition of The Works of Thomas Watson. The Banner of Truth Trust was founded in 1957, and early in the following year the Trust published its first books. Thomas Watson’s Body of Divinity was one of them. At that time the book and its author […]

Author The Banner of Truth Trust

Category Articles

Date March 27, 2026

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Archibald Alexander on Maternal Piety

In an appendix to his Thoughts on Religious Experience entitled ‘Counsels to Christian Mothers’, Archibald Alexander makes the following interesting remarks: I take pleasure in saying that in no class of society anywhere have I found examples of more pure and elevated piety than among the ladies of Virginia. And I have reason to believe that these […]

Author archibald-alexander

Category Book Excerpts

Date March 13, 2026

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On Obedience to Lawful Magistrates

The following is an excerpt from The Works of John Knox, Volume 3, pages 217–226. In a letter from Henry Bullinger, the eminent divine of Zurich, addressed to Calvin on the 26th of March 1554, he says, “I have enclosed in this letter the Answer I made to the Scotsman whom you commended to me. You will […]

Author Heinrich Bullinger

Category Book Excerpts

Date March 10, 2026

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