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To My Younger Brethren
Let me explain in this first sentence that when in these pages I address "my Younger Brethren," I mean brethren in the Christian M…
Lamentation of a Sinner
The Lamentation of a Sinner was written in 1544, the year where Parr took on the role of Regent for a number of months when Henry VIII was f…
The History of the Church of Christ: Century IV
It is certain, that from our Saviour's time to the present, there have ever been persons whose dispositions and lives have been formed by th…
Charles Simeon
Charles Simeon had come up to King’s college from Eton, a wild undergraduate, famous for his love of horses and extravagance in dress; but o…
The Letters of John Knox
The letters... will perhaps more clearly exhibit the temper and character of Knox, than his more elaborate compositions: but to understand t…
Bethlehem
There are several ways in which we may treat of the mysteries of the Three-and-Thirty Years of our dearest Lord. We may look at each of them…
The Analogy of Religion to the Constitution and Course of Nature
Joseph Butler's great work is the Analogy, published in 1736, and from that day read and admired by every highly-cultivated mind. He was ind…
Faith
This extensive dictionary entry on the biblical definition of faith was originally published in A Dictionary of the Bible, edited by James H…
The Theological Tractates
It was in the last dozen years of his life that Boethius wrote on a vastly different topic, or what one might imagine a vastly different top…
Apologia
Four Letters to a Minister of an Independent Church by a Minister of the Church of EnglandQuid me alta silentia cogis rumpere? - Virgil (&qu…
The Incomparableness of God
The Incomparableness of God, in His Being, Attributes, Works, and Word"For who in the heavens can be compared to the Lord? who among th…
Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Rochester
I believe that the good Bishop of Salisbury's account of the last days of poor young Rochester would, if carefully read, make more impressio…
Hosea: from The Holy Bible with Original Notes
Hosea, whose prophecy we now enter upon, exercised his sacred office for a great many years: he predicted the captivity of the ten Tribes lo…
The Gospel-Mystery of Sanctification
Among the professors of a religious course, some do still adhere unto a legal scheme of holiness, vainly making it the reason of their peace…
Exposition of the Seventeenth Chapter of the Gospel by St John
These my homilies concerning the prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ, which St. John has delivered down to us in his seventeenth chapter, I not …
A Breviate of the Life of Margaret Baxter
A breviate of the life of Margaret, the daughter of Francis Charlton, of apply in Shropshire, esq. and wife of Richard Baxter. For the use o…
A Word to the Weary
Sin and sorrow are twin sisters. They were born the same day. They have grown up together. It is as idle to say that there is no misery as t…
A Booke of Christian Questions and Answers
A book of Christian questions and answers wherein are set forth the chief points of the Christian religion. A work right necessary and profi…
On the Good of Marriage
This treatise, and the following, were written against somewhat that still remained of the heresy of Jovinian. S. Aug. mentions this error i…
Lectures on Butler's Analogy
Thomas Chalmers had read, when a young man, several infidel productions. Their semblance of logic and learning, and supercilious confidence …