'A thorough, typical Puritan exposition of the covenant of grace, this volume views the covenant in relation to the Father (ch. 1), the Son (ch. 2), the Spirit (ch. 3), the earth (ch. 4), the angels (ch. 5), the devils (ch. 6), death (ch. 7), the kingdom (ch. 8), the means of grace (ch. 9), the new birth and sanctification (chapters 10-15), and perseverance (ch. 16). The book concludes with two chapters on the covenant by Joseph Alleine (chapters. 17-18) and personal exhortations to saints and sinners vis-à-vis the covenant (chapters. 19-21) . . . . He is most renowned for his four volume work, Vindication of Godliness (1663-1668), which deserves wider attention'' - Dr. J. R. Beeke This book deals with the ''promises of the covenants.'' Alleine introduces the reader to that grandest of themes with these words: ''Good news from heaven! The Dayspring from on high has visited the undone world! After a deluge of sin and mercy, behold the bow in the cloud. The Lord God has made and established a New Covenant, and this it is that has cast the first beam on the dark state of lost and fallen man, and has brought life and immortality to light. This covenant is the hope of sinners, the riches of the saints. [It is] the magna charta of the city of God; the forfeited lease of eternity renewed; God's deed of gift, in which He has granted sinners their lives and has settled on the saints an everlasting inheritance . . . which, if you lay hold of it will recover all you have lost, ransom you from death, redeem you from hell, and advance you to a more sure and blessed condition than the original state from which you have fallen.'' ''I will be their God'' (Jer. 31:33). He is the friend and the portion of the saints. Alleine tells us that ''All the raptures and ecstasies of the glorious joy of the saints in the other world break in on them from their vision of God'' as the height and depth and length and breadth of Jesus Christ, their God and Savior, or He is ''a height withou

Heaven Opened: The Riches of God's Covenant Grace

Religion & Spirituality

Alleine, Richard

Christian Books & Bibles

Sovereign Grace Publishers, Inc.

Despite the title, this book is equally informative to those in the pulpit and those in the pew. It was penned when Baxter was unable to attend a meeting of ministers, so he wrote this to them. It covers what it means to take heed to ourselves, to the flock, to spiritual things, to church discipline. He prays for unity and peace in the churches, for greater vigor on the part of everyone in expressing our life in Christ. He proves the importance of family worship and catechism, hope in and expectation of success in all our Christian endeavors, due to the mediatorship of Christ and the indwelling guidance of the Spirit. In this book one discovers the heart of the man. For Baxter was both earnest and insistent upon discovering to a person their spiritual state. He would ask, ''Can you truly say that all the known sins of your past life are the grief of your heart, . . . that you have cast your soul upon Christ alone for the pardon of your sins by His blood? Can you truly say that your heart has turned away from your former sins [so that] you now hate the sins you formerly loved. Can you truly say that you have taken the everlasting enjoyment of God for all your happiness [so that] it has all of your heart, of your love, of your desire and care? . . . Do you daily and principally seek to please God?''  If these questions did not convince him that the person was converted, then he must be made to know how far he fails to measure up to being a Christian. Make him to know how he has despised God. For His view was, ''you must get to his heart, or else you have done nothing.''  He applied this method of catechizing families in his Kidderminster parish, insisting on heads of families learn, then teach their children. There resulted multitudes of conversions during his 14 years there.

The Reformed Pastor

History

Baxter, Richard

World

'In these pages Jonathan Edwards has asserted for all time the inwardness and spirituality of true religion . . . . It is . . . the motion of a hidden fire trembling in the breast, warming all the heart, consuming in its ardent flame the dross of our sins, cleansing and energizing and transfiguring us until - miracle of miracles - even we are heaven's fine and burnished gold'' (Alexander Smellie, Introduction, 1896) Edwards sets forth twelve distinguishing signs of truly gracious and holy affections: 1. [Those] truly spiritual affections which arise from spiritual, supernatural, Divine influences on the heart. 2. Those affections grounded in the intrinsic excellence of Divine things, without relation to our self interest. 3. Those primarily founded on the loveliness of the moral Excellency of Divine things. 4. Those arising from the enlightenment of the mind, rightly and spiritually to understand Divine things. 5. Those arising from conviction of certainty; 6. Evangelical humiliation. 7. A change of nature. 8. The temper of Jesus. 9. A softening of the heart by the Spirit. 10. Beautiful symmetry and proportion. 11. Spiritual appetite and increase of longing after spiritual attainments; and not least. 12. Fruit in Christian practice, which is the chief sign both to others and ourselves. The necessity of all of these is clearly, fully taught in the Scriptures. 'Edwards was far more than a revivalist preacher of fire and brimstone. He was a profound analyst of the heart of man, a defender of the grand particularities of the Reformed Faith. Above all he was a faithful servant of the meek and lowly Lamb of God.' (Dr. William Young, Professor of Philosophy, Rhode Island University) Edwards (1703-1758) is by far the best known American theologian. After graduating from and teaching at Yale University, he began a very fruitful ministry at Northampton, MA. The church was the scene of the explosive revival of 1734, 35, and burned fiercely for God under Edwards for

The Religious Affections

EDWARDS, JONATHAN

Animals and Birds occupy a prominent place in the Bible accounts. Nevertheless, it is rare to find a study of this important study from both a Biblical and a scientific standpoint. Both animals and birds appear in historical references, in mentions of nature, in the sacrifices, in their use as foods, in their use as labor, as transport, and of war. Both animals and birds are mentioned in prophetic passages also. Animal products are frequently a part of the Biblical story as well. The Lord Jesus often used both animals and birds in His teachings. For instance, that He might convey the idea that possible privations awaited any who would follow Him, Jesus used foxes to compare with His own lack. Many other analogies are used by our Lord, such as between being fishers of fish and fishers of men; such as His mention of a snake and a scorpion in Luke 11:11, 12 in relation to prayer. There are also frequent metaphorical uses of animals and birds. In this study Dr. Burton Goddard gives both ZOOLOGICAL and ORNITHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATIONS of all the animals and birds mentioned in the Bible. However, this study is not limited to the scientific identifications, but an alphabetical listing by English names is also given. Under each English name appears the original Hebrew word for the animal or bird. This results in the surprising discovery to readers that there are many Hebrew words employed by the Biblical writers for the same English word. For instance, seventeen Hebrew words are used for goat. Also included are additional discussions regarding the description of, and use of such animals and birds, how and where they appear in the Bible, and many other useful bits of knowledge. This compact, but very thorough study is taken from the article in The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volumes I and II (1964, 1968), and is presented here to give this excellent information a wider audience.

Animals and Birds of the Bible

Goddard, Burton L

There is nothing more, and nothing better that has been written on the first two chapters of Ephesians. All the following expositors of this portion of the Scriptures depended on this great work by Goodwin. ''Goodwin combines in a remarkable fashion two of the main qualities requisite for a successful study of theology: (1) A close attention to careful exegesis, in which every element of the written text of Scripture is the object of painstaking and loving scrutiny. (2) A comprehensive grasp of revealed truth in its entirety and in its structural relationships. In this way, in Goodwin, exegetical and doctrinal theology walk hand in hand, so to speak, every truth is substantiated by Scripture, and every text is carefully analyzed so that the verities [that it reveals may find their proper place in the total organism of the Christian faith. (Introduction by Roger Nicole). In these expositions Goodwin proves himself to be the very finest of communicators. His detailing of God's words are translated into power in the reader's understanding. The more one reads, the more the truth of God sinks in to the consciousness of the soul's ears. A holy excitement develops when one sees into the inner workings of God's mind given through the Apostle Paul as he was ''being borne along by the Holy Spirit'' (2 Peter 1:21).With Goodwin as guide, not only deep theology is taught, but very personal practical lessons are carried away to live in the hearts and practice of his readers. Goodwin gives such keen summations of each verse at the end of each chapter one may be lulled into thinking it is enough to just read the summaries. But this would leave such a one the poorer, having skipped over so many exquisite gems of scriptural knowledge as to rob himself of the richest revelations. For Goodwin roams the scriptures to reinforce the subject being discussed, scattering prisms of truth as he goes. Goodwin ''represents the cream of Puritanism, capturing the intellect, the will, and the h

Commentary on Ephesians, Volume 1 of 2

Goodwin, Thomas

Commentary on Ephesians, Volume 2 of 2

'Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which He has made crooked'' (Ecclesiastes 7:3) One's lot consists of all the things in life that God has allotted to a person. So if one sees rough and painful happenings in life, looking to second causes first will but stir up fretting and fuming. But a look at the first cause will remind us that it is God that has caused the crook in our lot, If He is to work all things to our good, He at times must put a kink in our plans. ''A man's heart plans his way, but Jehovah fixes his step'' (Pro. 16:9). Observe: 1. Whatever crook there is in our lot, it is of God's making. He has decreed all things in our lives, else how could He make all things work to our good? Each one has been allotted certain things, each of us differently; yet so as to make them work together. If between two saints, good for both of them. If between an unbeliever and a believer, the unbeliever's life works to the good of the believer. 2. What God sees fit to mar, no one will be able to mend his lot. When the course of events cross our plans, and God has done it, then only God can unloose the knot in our plans. 3. Everyone's lot in this world has some crook in it. Complainers are apt to make odious comparisons. Everyone feels for himself, when he is pinched, though others do not see it. Only God knows the pain allotted to each. 4. The crook in the lot came into the world by sin. It is owing to the Fall that sin entered the world. This crook in our lot inseparably follows our sinful condition, till dropping this body of sin we enter Heaven's gates. There was no personal sin in Christ, yet He was humiliated and suffered for the sins of others. All this was decreed of Him. Why not in our lives also?

The Crook In The Lot

Boston, Thomas

Ian Tallach, in the Foreword to The Beauties of Thomas Boston (p. xii) states, Of the many great divines who have adorned the ecclesiastical and theological scene in Scotland, Thomas Boston must be reckoned as among the greatest. Dr. Andrew Thomson who wrote Thomas Boston: His Life and Times, asserts that 'if Scotland had been searched during the earlier part of the eighteenth century there was not a minister of Christ within its bounds who, alike in personal character and in the discharge of his pastoral functions, approached nearer the apostolic model than did this man of God.' There are 7,376 pages in the complete 12 volume set. Boston (1676-1732) was a Scottish Puritan preacher. He was a first-class Hebrew scholar. Jonathan Edwards described Boston as ''a truly great divine. The author spent twelve years writing, and perfecting, this book It was received with praise on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Boston wrote several other books also.

Works of Thomas Boston, 12 volume hard cover set (Boston)

Thomas Boston

This the first complete printing of all of Pink's works. Get them while you can, for they are a treasure, and will certainly become valuable collector's items for lovers of God's Word. Pink was a theosophist before his conversion, and became a much traveled Baptist preacher. Now, because of his regeneration by God the Spirit, He has become noted for his many Biblically sound books. And all of those books appeared as monthly installments in his magazine, then collected into bound volumes as Studies in the Scriptures, except The Sovereignty of God. These 33 volumes of the magazine were issued yearly for 33 years. He also taught by mail some 100 or so students during this period, besides preaching at many Bible conferences. He was a devoted, intense student of the Bible, devoting a set number of hours per day in such study. Would-be visitors were met at the door and told by Mrs. Pink, Mr. Pink is in his study. — He brooked no interruption. He had a photographic mind which carried prodigious information in it, to the point where he could not only often quote a passage, but tell you the page and the edition from which he was quoting it, though not having seen that page for years. Because of this ability it took a very brave man indeed to contradict something which Pink was teaching. For this man was capable of rolling out 50 or 60 pertinent Scripture quotations to prove his point. Having read all the 10,000 pages of Pink, and having been taught by him for two years before his death, the Reviewer is certainly prejudiced in his favor. Nevertheless, it is our honest opinion that every one of the readers of these volumes will profit immensely from all these volumes. First, because there are many excellent articles by outstanding authors, and from magazines and news media, that no longer can be found. This is particularly true in the first ten volumes or so, before Pink began to personally write all the articles. Secondly, because there are hundreds of short articles by Pink, on various interesting subjects, which have not been included in any of his books. Among to be noticed are his first articles of each year, usually only a page or two, but full of meat. Some of these short articles have been printed in booklet form, but few have access to them any more. For example, The Fourfold Salvation, several booklets on the Sabbath, etc., each of which will enrich and inform the reader. Thirdly, There are many short quotations appearing here and there full of pithy and memorable truths, for Pink was a very judicious reader who knew what would best stir the reader to further study on a subject, or on a pregnant verse of the Scriptures. In short, you will gain considerable benefit from having ALL of Pink's writings in these 33 volumes, blessings which you would miss if you only would read his published books. ALL THE FOLLOWING UNEDITED VOLUMES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS SET: Exposition of Hebrews (he quotes the best of the best authors, including Owen, Gouge, Brown) The Life of David — The Life of Elijah (much of 1 Kings) — The Life of Elisha (much of 2 Kings) — The Satisfaction of Christ (great on atonement) — The Gospel of John — Gleanings in Genesis — Gleanings in Exodus — Gleanings in Joshua — The Seven Sayings of the Saviour on the Cross —The Prayers of the Apostles —The Sermon on the Mount — The Beatitudes and the Lord's Prayer — Exposition of 1 John 1 and 2, The Doctrine of Human Depravity — Exposition of I & II Samuel — Practical Christianity — Pink Jewels — The Saint's Perseverance — Sanctification — The Saints' Perseverance — The Doctrine of Reconciliation — The Attributes of God — Studies in Saving Faith — The Divine Inspiration of the Scriptures — The Ten Commandments — Profiting From the Word — The Doctrine of Election — Understanding the Scriptures — and dozens of others which I cannot recall at present. If you were able to obtain all of these in separate volumes at today's prices they would cost you much more than $1,000.00.

Studies in the Scriptures - 1922-23, Volume 1 of 17 Volumes

Pink, Stud Arthur W

Pink published Studies In The Scriptures, a monthly magazine, for 33 years. The accumulated writings total over 10,000 pages before his death. Now for the first time ever, Sovereign Grace Publishers, Inc. is reproducing the entire 33 year magazine set in seventeen volumes complete with a full index in the seventeenth volume. Most volumes contain two complete years except volumes eight and nine which each contain 18 months of the magazine. Nearly all of Pinks' books now in print are taken from those magazines. He took the subjects issue by issue until he completed his writing. In his expository works, he would expound on a book for years (7 years on Hebrews alone), writing a portion each month. His Hebrews is a great compendium of all the excellent thoughts on that book of the Bible through the ages. Pink preached in many places in the world before he retired to a remote part of Scotland, where he concentrated on his monthly magazine, and taught some 100 men by mail, including Jay Green Sr., the founder of Sovereign Grace Publishers. He ia a very able expositor, one who breaks new ground, yet adheres to age-proven theology. Do not expect to read the usual comments on these passages of Scripture. Pink was an origianl thinker, and he called no man master, but sought his views of the Scripture directly from His Lord and Master, Jesus Christ through prayer, and through comparing Scripture with Scripture until he gained understanding. The result is some controversial statements here and there. Questions from Andrew Fuller, Thomas Goodwin and John Brown of Edinburgh are very helpful also. It is one of Pink's strongest points, that he knew when and how to quote from other great writers. In the Lord's Prayer, Pink argues for the continued use of this form of prayer. No one can say that Pink was in any sense a ritualist. His questions from Manton, Gill, Perkins, etc. very much enhance the value of these Studies. The thoughts are pure and holy, the very kind of reading that

A. W. Pink's Studies In The Scriptures - 1926-1927, Vol 3 of 17 Volumes

PINK, ARTHUR W.

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