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Theodore Beza
The Counsellor of the French Reformation
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Book Description Theodore Beza’s course of activity was, in the words of the author, ‘long and brilliant.’ He presided over the Reformed church in the French-speaking countries of Europe for many years, and was its recognized counsellor and leader in times of peril. His friendship with John Calvin, and also with the French king, Henry […]
J. Gresham Machen
a biographical memoir
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Book Description John Gresham Machen (1881–1937) was one of the most significant figures in the evangelical church throughout the twentieth century. He is best known through his vision for a truly evangelical presbyterian church in the USA, and as the founder of Westminster Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania. Gifted with an incisive mind which was finely tuned […]
Amy Carmichael
Beauty for Ashes
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Endorsements ‘This is a love story of the noblest kind. It is an enriching consideration of a woman’s relentless love for her Saviour, her Bible, her friends, and most uniquely, her love for lost, suffering and desperate sinners – to whom she gave her life. Such devotion as hers seems so distant. Reading this brief […]
Scottish Puritans
2 Volume Set: Select Biographies
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First-hand sources from the 17th century. ‘This is 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. 568 & 552pp.
My God Is True!
Lessons Learned Along Cancer's Dark Road
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One man’s chronicle of the ‘Lessons learned Along Cancer’s Dark Road’. Paul Wolfe points to the glory, grace and — above all — the faithfulness of God. There is reason — even in the midst of suffering — to worship and rejoice. 168pp.
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An incisive, historical and theological insight into the great 19th-century Baptist and the doctrines which moulded his life and thought. 288pp.
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This major biography rescues the Countess—so greatly admired by King George III, Whitefield and other leaders of the Evangelical Revival— from undeserved obscurity and misrepresentation. 496pp.
Margaret Paton
Letters from the South Seas
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John Paton’s wife gives an enthralling and inspiring account of missionary life in the New Hebrides from the 1860s to the 1890s. 344pp.
Jonathan Edwards
A New Biography
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Edwards’ theology is here set in its proper context of his life. We see him in public and private, as pastor in the days of the Great Awakening, as well as in the ‘wilderness’ years in Stockbridge. 536pp. Illustrated.
John G. Paton
The Autobiography of the Pioneer Missionary to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
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The moving and gripping account of the life of the great pioneer missionary to the New Hebrides. 340pp.
Archibald G. Brown
Spurgeon's Successor
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A biography of Archibald G. Brown (1844-1922), who built a church to seat 3000 in the East End of London while still in his twenties, led mission work among the poor, and was Co-pastor and then Pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, 1907-10. 432pp. Illustrated.
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