This book traces the story of the English Calvinistic Baptists from the death of John Gill in 1771 to that of Charles Haddon Spurgeon in 1892. It deals not only with the well-known digures in this community's history–theological giants like John Gill, Andrew Fuller, Wiliam Gadsby, and Charles Spurgeon–but also with lesser-known lights, men like the hymn writer Benjamin Beddome, the eccentric John Collett Ryland, Abraham Booth, and John Stevens. 'Wide and deep reading in the writings of these men has given Dr. Robert Oliver an excellent grasp of thier various theological perspectives...a...masterfull book." (Dr. Michael A. G. Haykin)

«A valuable volume. The lectures before us are an able tribute to those who in Scottish pulpits served, non Scotland only, but all our Lord's kingdom on earth» (C. H. Spurgeon)

The Scots Worthies offers stirring mini-biographies of the great roll-call of the Christian heroes of Scotland from the 1520s to the 'killing times' of the 1680s.

Revival swept through the churches of New England and other parts of the United States between 1798 and 1808. These letters of Ebenezer Porter, an eyewitness of the revivals, display two characteristics not always found together: warm zeal to see the church revived, and wise moderation in resisting tendencies to fanaticism. Porter outlines the characteristics of the revivals he had witnessed, the means used for the conversion of sinners, hindrances to revivals, the exercises of those hopefully converted, and the longer-term effects of the revivals on the churches. He also deals helpfully with new theories that were appearing on the subject of divine influence in the conversion of sinners. The result is a permanently valuable guide to the nature and effects of revivals of religion. Ebenezer Porter served as a Congregational minister in New England and became the first President of Andover Theological Seminary in Massachusetts in 1827.

Scotland's 18th-century religious revival will ever be associated with Cambuslang, a parish near Glasgow, where in March 1742 'a spark of grace set the kingdom on a blaze'.

Brian H. Edwards seeks to bring the reader into contact with revival and to introduce it to those who may never have read much on the subject. This book is not a clinical analysis of revival, nor just an assessment of God’s reviving work in the past. Rather it is the author’s declared intention to inform our minds and inflame our hearts so that we may have a heart-longing for God to give us revival in our day and so that we might become what Duncan Campbell describes as a people ‘saturated with God’. It will be particularly helpful in this year of commemorating revival.

In the first volume of this new series, one of the 20th century's greatest preachers offers a verse-by-verse exposition of Acts 1-3 and compares current Christianity with that which was lived in the early church. This book will encourage, challenge, and strengthen you in your faith.

Blending his classic, personal approach with his astute analysis of man's condition, he presents a message that persuasively speaks to the convictions of every reader.

In this volume, the third in the present series intended to bring together much of Dr. Lloyd-Jones evangelistic preaching on Acts, the main incidents in Acts 5:17-6:8 are reviewed and their lessons applied to the mind, heart and conscience of the reader.

Why should readers in the twenty-first century concern themselves with preaching from the first century? Are there not many more pressing topics to concern them than a long address given by a Jewish Christian to the leaders of his nation in Jerusalem? Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones was convinced that time spent in the early chapters of Acts, ‘to discover how the church started and what her message was at the beginning’, was well spent. He shows that we cannot understand the gospel, or even our own history, without understanding the events narrated in Acts 7. There would be no gospel if ‘the God of glory’ had not ‘appeared to Abraham’.

Philip Schaff (1819-1893) was a German Reformed church historian, born in Switzerland. He was educated at Tubingen, Halle, and Berlin, and later took a position as Professor of Church History at Union Theological Seminary, New York. Schaff bases his work on the premise that church history in order to be valid and valuable must deal with three factors: 1) God through Christ, 2) man as a responsible moral creature, and 3) Satan as a real being employing the Anti-Christ as his agent at the end of time. Schaff begins his history with an examination of the preparation for Christianity in Judaism and the heathen world and the life and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The 8 volume series concludes with a general introduction to modern church history and a thorough analysis of the productive period of the Reformation, tracing the Protestant movement in Germany and Switzerland to the close of the 16th century. There are footnotes, charts, maps and each volume contains its own alphabetical index. Schaff taught church history at German Reformed Seminary in Mercersburg, Penn., and Union Theological Seminary in New York. He was involved in the formation of the Evangelical Alliance, the revision of the English Bible (the Revised Version), and the Alliance of the Reformed Churches. Schaff was founder of the American Society of Church History.

In addition to his vigorous and clear style, Kuiper is also noted for the comprehensive way in which he treats his subject. This book, containing over fifty chapters, deals with subjects such as unity, the marks of the Church, the offices of the Church, its responsibilities and privileges, and the Church and the world. Although this book is worthy of the widest possible circulation, it may be particularly commended as a manual for office-bearers in the Church.

This anthology of documents, drawn primarily from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, addresses issues regarding the nature and life of the Church. Included are the place of Scripture as the rule for reformation, the nature of New Testament church government, the importance of church unity, and the need for ongoing reformation. Any concerned for the glory of God in the Church should be familiar with this heritage of biblical teaching.

The study of the history and theology throw light on both truth and error. It helps us to recognise old heresies when we meet them in modern dress, and introduces us to the classical educations of truth which overthrow them for all time.