Download or read book Select Memoirs of the English and Scottish Divines written by Thomas Smith and published by Puritan Publications. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Smith has written a tour de force biography of English and Scottish Divines from the Reformation and Puritan era. The work begins with the lives of renowned English Worthies who introduced and effected the glorious Reformation from popery, and concludes with those who were unsatisfied with the Romish peculiarities of the Church of England, and were therefore denominated Non-conformists or Puritans. There are contained in this volume 132 entries of varying length which treat each of these worthies and divines with the utmost respect for their work and labors for the Lord Jesus Christ. And it should be noted that with many of them they glorified God in their death as martyrs. Here you will meet the Puritans in their context of struggle and truth for the sake of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Also included are two introductory sections: “An Historical Sketch of the Christian Church” in three parts, and a "Short Introduction to the Lives of the Puritans." This is a major historical work, both for scope and accuracy. Among the noted entries are: Ames, Baille, Baxter, Bolton, Bradford, the Burgess' (both Anthony and Cornelius), Case, Cawdrey, Coverdale, Cotton, Fox, Gillespie, Goodman, Goodwin, Henderson, Hooker, Hooper, Janeway, Latimer, Lightfoot, Ridley, Rogers, Rutherford, Sibbes, Tyndale, Vines, and a host of others. For the Christian and student of the historical and doctrinal struggle for Reformation, there is also a convenient and helpful list of books and works by each author covered appended to the end of each memoir. “This is the best biography on the Puritans that I have ever read, or for that matter, the best biography I’ve ever read, period.” Therese B. McMahon
Download or read book Select Memoirs of the Lives Labours and Sufferings of Those Pious and Learned English and Scottish Divines who Greatly Distinguished Themselves in Promoting the Reformation from Popery in Translating the Bible written by Thomas Smith (of Glasgow.) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Select Memoirs of the Lives Labours and Sufferings of Those English and Scottish Divines who Greatly Distinguished Themselves in Promoting the Reformation from Popery written by Thomas Smith (of Glasgow.) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Select Memoirs of the Lives Labours and Sufferings of Those Pious and Learned English and Scottish Divines Who Greatly Distinguished Themselves in Promoting the Reformation From Popery written by Thomas Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Select Memoirs of the Lives, Labours, and Sufferings of Those Pious and Learned English and Scottish Divines, Who Greatly Distinguished Themselves in Promoting the Reformation From Popery: In Translating the Bible, and in Promulgating Its Salutary Doctrines by Their Numerous Evangelical Writings, and Who Ultimately Crowned the Venerable Edifice With the Celebrated Westminster Confession of Faith, &C. &C. &C It will readily be granted, that they were not all of precisely the same opinion in regard to some of the less important con cerns of Christianity. In this imperfect state of existence, it has not been, nor can it ever be expected, that any large body of men will hold the self-same opinions; but the Reformers, on all essential points, seem to have been harmoniously agreed. Salvation through grace, and good works as the evidence of that grace; this was the centre around which they rallied, and the magnet that attracted their correspondence; it was this that animated their exertions, and, elevated their hopes. With regard to church-government, however; there existed amongst them variousshades of opinion; and respecting the doctrines of religious liberty, the sentiments of not a few were rather confused and indistinct; but the majority seems to have admitted that, in as much as every individual must account for himself at the final reckoning, so he has the undoubted right also. To judge, think, and determine for himself 111 this his probation ary state. Ori this subject judge Blackstone has judiciously remarked, that our ancestors were much mistaken, when they considered the mere difference of religious opinions a p1'0pel object of coercion and punishment, and that persecution for opinions, however ridiculous and absurd these opinions might be, is at variance with every maxim of sound policy and civil liberty, and unjustifiable on every principle of moral rectitude and true religion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Select Memoirs of the Lives Labours and Sufferings of Those Pious and Learned English and Scottish Divines written by Thomas Smith (of Glasgow.) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Select memoirs of the lives labours and sufferings of those English and Scottish divines who distinguished themselves in promoting the Reformation written by Thomas Smith and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Select Memoirs of the Lives Labours and Sufferings of Those Pious and Learned English and Scottish Divines who Greatly Distinguished Themselves in Promoting the Reformation from Popery in Translating the Bible and in Promulgating Its Salutary Doctrines by Their Numerous Evangelical Writings and who Ultimately Crowned the Venerable Edifice with the Celebrated Westminster Confession of Faith c c c written by Thomas Smith (of Glasgow.) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Church and Politics During the English Reformation written by Jaretha Joy Jimena-Palmer PhD and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a literary study of the seventeenth-century pamphlets and sermons delivered to the Long Parliament by Stephen Marshall, a leading English Puritan. Marshall was known as preacher to the Long Parliament and for his participation in the further reformation of the English Church in the 1640s. His understanding of the role of civil magistracy was deeply rooted in his concept of the English Reformation. He was convinced that the constitutional changes during the sixteenth-century English Reformation defined the role of civil magistrates. The King became the Supreme Head of the English Church, and the civil magistracy consisting of King-or-Queen-in Parliament had the responsibility to spearhead the reformation of the English Church. He also insisted that restoring godly preaching and teaching in every local church would eventually complete the English Reformation. Marshall also argued that the Henrician schism paved the way for England to become a Christian Commonwealth where the Church is lodged, whose characteristic was the unity among the people of God. This implied that in England, Presbyterians, Independents, and Erastians all belonged to one body of Jesus Christ, the Head of the Church. In a Christian Commonwealth, civil magistracy was a divine institution and had the highest power of ordering and governing the church, according to Marshall. It was the civil magistracys responsibility to protect and to take care of Gods people in all godliness. And in order to do so, magistrates should be rightly informed from the Word of God. Though Marshall showed his opposition to King Charles Is political innovation that precipitated an unfortunate war in 1642, his vision of a Christian Commonwealth where English magistracy consisting of the King-or-Queen-in-Parliament did not change. If the king could be persuaded to agree with the ecclesiastical reform Puritans proposed through Parliament, he would still be an instrument of reform.
Download or read book Select memoirs of the lives labours and sufferings of those pious and learned English and Scottish divines who greatly distinguished themselves in promoting the Reformation from popery written by Thomas Smith and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Art of Divine Meditation written by Edmund Calamy and published by Puritan Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Calamy (1600-1666) was a Reformed Presbyterian preacher of the Gospel and one of the distinguished members of the Westminster Assembly. He was active to promote Reformed Theology in his day and was an eminent scholar of the Bible. In this wonderful treatise on godly meditation, Calamy shows that meditation on holy and heavenly things is a work that God requires at the hands of all His people. God requires Christians to pray, read Scripture, study and also requires them to meditate. God requires them to hear sermons, and still, requires them to meditate on the sermons they hear. What good is learning anything without chewing and thinking about it? Yet, there are few Christians who believe this doctrine, and it is all but lost today. In contrast, meditation is to be a regular part of the daily private devotions of the Christian. Meditation cultivates seriousness in the Christian for life and godliness. The highest seriousness makes the best scholar, and consequently, the best Christian. This is a searching and scanning, a deep dive into the things of God. Calamy teaches that meditating on godly truth is not something done once and forgotten; it is something done regularly and daily. It places the mind and will under the influence of the Spirit, and it helps them to avoid sin and glorify Christ. Many make excuses not to meditate because it is difficult. Some neglect it totally, and yet others may have simply never learned to do it rightly. There is a right way and wrong way to meditate or think on these high thoughts of the Lord. Serious thinking is fundamental to all right doing before Jesus Christ. One cannot be subject to Christ if one does not know or understand the will of Christ. To meditate in a godly manner, then, is to think like a Christian. This work is not a scan or facsimile, has been carefully transcribed by hand being made easy to read in modern English, and has an active table of contents for electronic versions.
Download or read book The Sweetness of Divine Meditation written by William Bridge and published by Puritan Publications. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divine meditation on the word of God is a lost art and science in the spiritual disciplines. Christians are often content to read a little and pray a little. They often have little to no strategy for godly meditation. This is where William Bridge will come in. He will not only show the work and way of divine meditation, but he will initially set forth its sweetness. He teaches that this spiritual discipline is the Christian’s daily way of exercising himself in godliness and walking with God, and that such a walk is sweet. This walking is a picture of persistent communion with Jesus Christ, and is eminently sweet in its applications to the soul. Bridge’s main text is, “My meditation of him shall be sweet,” (Psalm 104:34), setting forth the doctrine that it is a sweet thing for a gracious soul to meditate on God. He shows the true nature and notion of meditation, how and in what respects a man may meditate on God, and how it is that meditation is a sweet thing, and profitable for the Christian. In his second part, in the work and manner which godly meditation ought to be accomplished, he answers some objections. He demonstrates that it is the Christian’s duty to meditate on God and the things of God, that it is a duty for every day, how to rightly meditate to make it profitable (with some rules to that end) and then concludes with arguments and motives to press all Christians to the regular and consistent practice of godly meditation. This work is not a scan or facsimile, and has been updated in modern English for easy reading. It also has an active table of contents for electronic versions.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H M Signet in Scotland written by Signet Library (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H M Signet in Scotland written by Thomas-Graves Law and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sermons of William Spurstowe written by William Spurstowe and published by Puritan Publications. This book was released on 2012-06-10 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a compilation of Spurstowe’s available sermons. These sermons are eminently practical, highly spiritual and demonstrate Spurstowe’s ministerial ability to be a powerful preacher for Christ and His kingdom. There are two funeral sermons, one on dealing with death not being a stumbling block for Christians, taken from Psalm 1:15, and one on the reward of faithful believers being as a crown of life given in heaven, taken from Rev. 2:10 (which sermons are worth the cost of this volume alone). Also contained in this work are his sermons before the Parliament and the Westminster Assembly, as well as his sermon on the magistrate's duty before God. This is not a scan or a facsimile, but a newly typeset work updated and made easily readable, with an active table of contents.