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A Study Guide to John Owen's Communion With God (PDF download)

For most Christians, the Trinity is a carefully defined doctrine that they must believe; yet it has little practical significance. In Communion with God, Owen presents the doctrine of the Trinity as the most intensely practical and personal doctrine in...

Knowing I Was Born Again (pdf download)

Isaac Ambrose (1604–1664) was an English preacher and Presbyterian living during the interregnum. In 1640 he wrote Prima and Ultima, with Prima presenting the message of regeneration and Ultima the last things (he would later write the lengthy...

A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of the Holy Scripture (pdf download)

Though little remembered and seldom read, the Books of Homilies remain an important source of doctrine and history in the Anglican tradition. From the first of these comes this homily, A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture...

An Introduction to the Death of Death in the Death of Christ (PDF Download)

"To recover the old, authentic, biblical gospel, and to bring our preaching and practice back into line with it, is perhaps our most pressing present need. And it is at this point that Owen’s treatise on redemption can give us help." John Owen...

The Character of an Old English Puritan (PDF Download)

THE Old English Puritan was one that honored God above all (Matthew 22:37–39; 1 Peter 2:7) and under God gave every one his due (Romans 13:7). So begins popular John Geree’s popular 1646 tract, The Character of an Old...

The Doctrine of Justification by Faith Opened and Applied (PDF download)

Taken from The Works of William Bridge Volume 5. In this 37 page booklet, 17th century Puritan William Bridge deals with the doctrine of justification by faith in a comprehensive manner—exegetically, theologically, and practically. May you be...