Puritan Paperbacks
The Puritan Paperbacks Series includes some of the most classic Puritan works published by the Banner of Truth. These books are selections of larger works from the Puritans, published in small paperbacks to make them more accessible and affordable. These books highlight some of the finest works of the Puritans who were well known for their robust theology, pastoral warmth, and love for God’s Word. Notable titles include Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices by Thomas Brooks, Communion with God by John Owen, and The Doctrine of Repentance by Thomas Watson. Other notable Puritan writers in this series include Thomas Goodwin, Richard Sibbes, John Flavel, Richard Baxter, and John Bunyan, et al.
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An Ark For All God’s Noahs
In a Gloomy Stormy Day
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UPCOMING RELEASE Book Description We live in difficult days and in trying times. This book, with its quaint yet vivid title, points us to the One in whom Christian men and women have always found the strength to persevere come what may. Taking Lamentations 3:24 as his starting-point – ‘The Lord is my portion, saith […]
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NEW RELEASE Book Description Robert Traill (1642–1716) lived to span the ripest period of the Puritan age. Distinguished in the classes of Edinburgh University, Traill early felt the inner constraint to preach Christ. Although he was endowed with a first-class mind and had enjoyed a very complete theological education, Traill was above all a preacher […]
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NEW RELEASE Endorsements ‘In these records we are transported back three hundred and fifty years to a relatively small gathering of serious Christians. We have the privilege of eavesdropping on one of the great spiritual masters answering questions that arose in the hearts and minds of the congregation he loved an served. They are also […]
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Book Description Published the year after his Pilgrim’s Progress, in 1679, Bunyan’s Treatise on the Fear of God takes a widely misunderstood and neglected theme, wipes off the grime of confusion, and lets it sparkle. And sparkle really is the word: where most assume that the fear of God must be the gloomy theological equivalent […]
Duties of Christian Fellowship
A Manual For Church Members
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Book Description Duties of Christian Fellowship deals with a matter of perennial concern for every truly Christian church. In just a few pages it sets out in very concise terms the responsibilities all Christians have, first, to their pastors, and then second, to one another within the fellowship of the local church. John Owen was […]
Flowers From a Puritan’s Garden
Illustrations and Meditations
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Book Description Do you ever underline helpful passages in books you are reading? This is exactly what C. H. Spurgeon used to do when reading the Puritans. Whilst reading Thomas Manton, he was struck time and time again by the ‘solid, sensible instruction, forcibly delivered’ that he found there. To Manton’s thoughts, Spurgeon added his […]
All Things Made New
John Flavel for the Christian Life
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Book Description Numerous stories are told from John Flavel’s life of how people just ‘happened to meet him’ and yet came away deeply thankful to God, full of resolve to walk with Christ as a result. The same is true of encounters made with Flavel’s writings. Flavel spent almost his entire ministry in a busy […]
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Book Description It was said of Robert Bruce that ‘no man in his time spake with such evidence and power of the Spirit’. One is certainly left with that impression after reading The Way to True Peace and Rest, his six sermons on Isaiah 38, a chapter that records the illness that afflicted King Hezekiah […]
The Crook in the Lot
The Sovereignty and Wisdom of God, in the Afflictions of Men Displayed
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Book Description Thomas Boston (1676-1732) was a remarkable Scottish theologian and pastor. His Works run to 12 volumes and contain some lengthy theological treatises. But Boston also wrote brief, very accessible, and pastoral books, and chief among these is the quaintly titled, The Crook in the Lot: The Sovereignty and Wisdom of God, in the […]
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Endorsement ‘Christians today need not only the truth and comfort Sibbes offers here; they need his heartfelt delight so that they live for no other end than the very glory of God.’ — MICHAEL REEVES Book Description A Heavenly Conference is Richard Sibbes’ exposition of the memorable meeting that took place on the first Easter […]
Christ Set Forth
As the Cause of Justification and as the Object of Justifying Faith
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Endorsements ‘Turning to nearly any page in this volume, readers will be rewarded with a remarkably pastoral theology of justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.’ — MICHAEL HORTON Book Description First published in 1642, Christ Set Forth — one of Thomas Goodwin’s most beloved and enduring works — is a book […]
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The True Bounds of Christian Freedom is a clear, scriptural exposition of the place of the law in the life of the Christian. 224pp.
Puritan Paperbacks Series
53 Volume Set (Subject to Availability)
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EndorsementsRead More ↓ ‘I cannot exaggerate the blessing that Banner of Truth has been to my life and the lives of my colleagues. Young people often ask me to share with them the books which have most shaped my theology and fanned into flame my zeal. The answer is always the same – Banner books […]
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This new edition for the 350th anniversary of the ‘Farewell Sunday’ in August 1662 when 2000 ministers left the national church for conscience’ sake is also a fine introduction to Puritan preaching. 280pp.
Temptation
Resisted and Repulsed, Abridged and made easy to read by Richard Rushing
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Owen’s penetrating teaching opens up areas of need in our hearts, but also brings profound assurances of grace in Jesus Christ. 128pp.
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Owen calls the church back to divine certainty and divine resources, showing that it is the Holy Spirit who convinces, assures, teaches, comforts and equips the church and its members for their work. 208pp.
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Practical and biblical ways to remedy the spiritual disease of a spirit of discontentment. Marked by sanity, clarity, aptness of illustration, and warmth of appeal to the heart. 232pp.
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This practical and helpful book shows the need for Christians to engage in a life-long battle against remaining sin, and that the fight can be won only through faith in Christ and in the power of the Spirit. 144pp.
Learning in Christ’s School
Babes, Children, Youth, and Fathers
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A unique account of growth in grace in ‘Christ’s school’. 304pp.
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In these four studies from the life of King Josiah (2 Chron. 34:26–28), the ‘heavenly doctor’ Sibbes shows that true reformation must begin in the heart, with love for Christ. 192pp.
The Godly Man’s Picture
Some Characteristic Marks of a Man Who is Going to Heaven
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Some Characteristic Marks of a Man who is Going to Heaven’. 256pp.
All Loves Excelling
The Saints' Knowledge of Christ's Love
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Expounds the breadth, length, depth and height of Christ’s love, from Ephesians 3:17-18. 139p.
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In this moving exposition of Psalm 51:17, Bunyan shows why a broken heart is so acceptable to God. 128pp.
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Previously published under the title An Alarm to the Unconverted, this great evangelistic book is also a spur to personal evangelism. 152pp.
Smooth Stones taken from Ancient Brooks
Selections from the writings of Thomas Brooks by C.H. Spurgeon
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A collection of sentences, illustrations, and quaint sayings gathered by C. H. Spurgeon from Brooks’ Works. 216pp.
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A crystal-clear explanation of what sin is, why it is so serious, amd what we need to do about it. 284pp.
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In The Shorter Catechism Explained from Scripture, Vincent uses a question and answer format to achieve his aim. The 40 signatories to the Preface, including John Owen, declared their belief that it would ‘be greatly useful to all Christians in general’. 280pp.
The Secret Key to Heaven
The Vital Importance of Private Prayer
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Focusing on the Lord’s words in Matthew 6:6. Brooks gives a masterful treatment of ‘The Vital Importance of Private Prayer’. 304pp.
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Treats the seductive influence and terrible power of Satan in a way ‘greatly more full and suggestive than in the literature of the present day’ (Smeaton). 256pp.
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