Books on History and Biography
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Diary and Journal of David Brainerd
Preface and Reflections by Jonathan Edwards
Description
Brainerd’s life is a vivid, powerful testimony to the truth that God can and does use weak, sick, discouraged, lonely, struggling saints . . . to accomplish amazing things for his glory’ —John Piper. 792pp.
Daniel Rowland
and the Great Evangelical Awakening in Wales
Description
Book Description J. C. Ryle described Daniel Rowland (1711–1790) as ‘one of the spiritual giants of the eighteenth century.’ Lady Huntingdon considered him to be ‘second only to Whitefield.’ Howel Harris wrote of him, ‘In his pulpit he is second to St Paul,’ while others acclaimed him as ‘the greatest preacher in Europe.’ Yet he […]
The Works of William Bridge
5 Volume Set
Description
Book Description ‘Times of difficulty and of persecution have always been seasons in which God’s ministers shine with greatest lustre.’ These words from the memoir of Bridge contained in these collected Works of William Bridge serve to remind readers of the context in which William Bridge lived and worked. Born in Cambridgeshire around 1600, Bridge […]
Theodore Beza
The Counsellor of the French Reformation
Description
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 […]
Thomas Charles’ Spiritual Counsels
Selected From His Letters and Papers by Edward Morgan
Description
Selections from the letters and papers of the 18th-century minister of Bala in North Wales, with a biographical sketch by Iain H. Murray. 520pp.
Polycarp of Smyrna
The Man Whose Faith Lasted
Description
The story of ‘the man whose faith lasted’. 40pp.
Alexander Moody Stuart
A Memoir
Description
Endorsements ‘Long forgotten and hard to obtain, Alexander Moody Stuart is a book for any Christian to enjoy, and every Christian will find it richly instructive, graciously challenging, and wonderfully inspiring. And for ministers of the gospel it is quite simply a “must have”. While it ranks among the finest Christian biographies of a past […]
Description
Book Description To ask and answer the question ‘Why were our Reformers burned?’ could not be more pertinent to the times in which we live, according to Roger Carswell in his Introduction to this edition of J. C. Ryle’s tract on the English Reformers. This is a booklet that needs to be read carefully and […]
An Ark For All God’s Noahs
In a Gloomy Stormy Day
Description
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 my soul; […]
Princeton Seminary
2 Volume Set
Description
ENDORSEMENTS ‘This splendid, thoroughly researched, two-volume history of Princeton Seminary reads like a novel. It tells the story of one of the key institutions that shaped the transformation of post-colonial, adolescent America into a world power, and that for the first time made the Christian faith global, carrying it literally to the uttermost ends of […]
The Reformation of the Church
A Collection of Reformed and Puritan Documents on Church Issues
Description
A Collection of Reformed and Puritan Documents on Church Issues with introductory notes. 416pp.
Swift and Beautiful
The Amazing Stories of Faithful Missionaries
Description
NEW RELEASE Book Description In his Spiritual Unfolding of Bishop H. C. G. Moule, John Baird wrote, ‘No course of reading is more establishing than that of Christian biography — the battle story of those who in the conflict of earth have been great in the life of God.’ Swift and Beautiful tells the amazing […]
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