Books on History and Biography
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An Ark for All God’s Noahs
In a Gloomy Stormy Day
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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; […]
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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 […]
Alexander Moody Stuart
A Memoir
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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 […]
Polycarp of Smyrna
The Man Whose Faith Lasted
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The story of ‘the man whose faith lasted’. 40pp.
Thomas Charles’ Spiritual Counsels
Selected From His Letters and Papers by Edward Morgan
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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.
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 […]
The Works of William Bridge
5 Volume Set
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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 […]
Daniel Rowland
and the Great Evangelical Awakening in Wales
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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 Diary and Journal of David Brainerd
With Notes and Reflections by Jonathan Edwards
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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.
Five Pioneer Missionaries
John Eliot, David Brainerd, Henry Martyn, William Chalmers Burns, John G. Paton
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The awe-inspiring stories of David Brainerd, William Chalmers Burns, John Eliot, Henry Martyn and John G. Paton. 408pp.
Historical Theology
2 Volume Set
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Historical Theology is a two-volume work derived from Dr. Cunningham’s lectures to his Church History class at New College, Edinburgh between 1847–1861. Clothbound, 1408 pages.
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