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Jeremiah Burroughs is one of the most beloved of the seventeenth-century English Puritans. In this important work, Burroughs shows from Scripture the great sin of thinking as the world thinks rather than thinking God's thoughts after Him. Then, realizing that right conduct is the result of right thinking, Burroughs gives us more gems in the two bonus treatises offered here, A Heavenly Conversation and Walking with God. The Puritans rightly discerned the relationship between a person's doctrine and his or her walk before God and fellow man. May the Lord use these sermons to give us the same kind of discernment in our day. May we learn to think biblically, and then may we begin to act accordingly. Table of Contents: A Treatise of Earthly-Mindedness Foreword by R.C. Sproul To the ReaderChapter One: Doctrine: There is a great difference between a wicked man and a godly man. The one minds the earth; the other's conversation is in heavenChapter Two: Earthly-Mindedness Discovered in Nine ParticularsChapter Three: Six Evils of Earthly-Mindedness Chapter Four: Eight Additional Evils of Earthly-Mindedness Chapter Five: Five Things may be Wrought in an Earthly-Minded Man Chapter Six: Seven Reasons of Men's Earthly-Mindedness Chapter Seven: Eleven Considerations to Take the Hearts of Men off of Earthly-Mindedness Chapter Eight: Five Directions How to Get Our Hearts Free From Earthly-Mindedness A Heavenly Conversation Chapter One: How Far the Examples of Godly Men Should Prevail With Us Chapter Two: What's to be Done when Examples of Godly Men are Contrary?Chapter Three: Rebuke of Those that Follow the Example of the Wicked and Reject the Example of the Godly Chapter Four: Two Doctrines Observed From the Text Chapter Five: How the Saints are Citizens of Heaven Chapter Six: How the Saints Have Their Conversation in Heaven Chapter Seven: The Saints' Trading for Heaven Chapter Eight: Seven Evidences of Men's Having Their Conversation in HeavenChapter Nine: Four Reasons Why the Saints Have Their Conversations in Heaven Chapter Ten: Use 1: To reprove such as have their conversations in hellChapter Eleven: Use 2: To reprove hypocrites Chapter Twelve: Use 3: Let us not find fault with the strictness of God's ways Chapter Thirteen: Use 4: Let us not find fault with the strictness of God's ways Chapter Fourteen: A heavenly conversation is a convincing conversationChapter Fifteen: A heavenly conversation is growingChapter Sixteen: A heavenly conversation brings much glory to God Chapter Seventeen: A heavenly conversation brings much glory to the saints Chapter Eighteen: A heavenly conversation will make suffering easy Chapter Nineteen: A heavenly conversation brings much joy Chapter Twenty: A Heavenly Conversation Is Very Safe Chapter Twenty-One: A Heavenly Conversation Gives Abundant Entrance into Glory Chapter Twenty-Two: Seven Directions How to Get a Heavenly Conversation Walking with God Chapter One: The Text OpenedChapter Two: Doctrine: 'Tis the excellency of a Christian to walk with God Chapter Three: How the Soul Is Brought to walk with GodChapter Four: What Walking With God IsChapter Five: Twelve Distinct Excellencies of Walking With GodChapter Six: Five Uses of Exhortation in Walking With God Chapter Seven: Evidences of Our Walking With GodChapter Eight: Twelve Rules of Direction for Walking With God Chapter Nine: An Objection Concerning God's Hiding His Face Answered in Six Particulars

Volume arrangement for the set: 1. Prolegomena (1.1) 2. Faith in the Triune God (1.2) 3. The Works of God and the Fall of Man (1.3"¬‚¬"4) 4. Redemption in Christ (1.5) 5. The Application of Redemption and The Church (1.6"¬‚¬"7) 6. The Covenant of Grace (1.8) 7. Morality and Piety (2 & 3)

Mention church discipline and people often react in discomfort. But did you know that Jesus made discipline a test of whether a church meets His approval (Revelation 2-3)? In The Scandal of Undisciplined Disciples, James Durham helps us to understand the matter by defining the nature of discipline and explaining when it is necessary. He identifies practical issues related to administering church discipline and shows how we can know when a case has been satisfactorily resolved. He also explains why simply leaving a church fails to address the issue and even provides practical advice for unfortunate instances when discipline is defective. Now presented in modern English, Durham's classic treatment on the importance of church discipline can be used to edify a new generation. Table of Contents: 1. Why Does Church Discipline Matter? 2. When Is Church Discipline Necessary? 3. How Should Church Courts Handle Disciplinary Cases? 4. When Has a Discipline Case Been Satisfactorily Resolved? 5. What Practical Issues Arise in Administering Church Discipline? 6. Why Does Separation from a Church Fail to Address the Issue? 7. What Should Church Members Do when Discipline Is Defective?

"An English translation of Petrus van Mastricht's Theoretico-Practica Theologia, which presents a system of Reformed theology in its exegetical, doctrinal, elenctical, and practical parts"--

During the seventeenth century, English Puritan pastors often encouraged their congregations in the spiritual discipline of meditating on God and His Word. Today, however, much of evangelicalism is either ignorant of or turned off to the idea of meditation. In God's Battle Plan for the Mind, pastor David Saxton seeks to convince God's people of the absolute necessity for personal meditation and motivate them to begin this work themselves. But he has not done this alone. Rather, he has labored through numerous Puritan works in order to bring together the best of their insights on meditation. Standing on the shoulders of these giants, Saxton teaches us how to meditate on divine truth and gives valuable guidance about how to rightly pattern our thinking throughout the day. With the rich experiential theology of the Puritans, this book lays out a course for enjoying true meditation on God's Word. "The popular conception of meditation has become so badly misshapen by mysticism, New Age influences, and Eastern religious notions that some otherwise sound Christians today seem to recoil from any mention of meditation as a necessary spiritual exercise. But nothing is more vital or more beneficial for understanding the truth and growing in sanctification than quiet, careful, focused reflection on the words and the meaning of Scripture. That's what the word meditation means in the Bible. No less than six times in Psalm 119 alone, the psalmist says 'I will meditate' on the precepts, promises, and principles of God's Word. The Puritans had much to say about biblical meditation and the important role it plays in a sanctified thought life. Dave Saxton has written an extremely helpful and encouraging digest of some of the best Puritan teaching on the subject. You need to get a copy, read it, put its principles into practice, and 'be transformed by the renewal of your mind.'" John MacArthur

"A collection of essays on various aspects of William Perkins's theology"--

English Puritanism and Scottish Presbyterianism in the seventeenth century had many bright and shining lights. Of these, James Durham (1622-1658), ranks alongside the greatest of his generation for his theological depth, faithful preaching, and particularly for his moderate spirit at a time when such was in scarce supply. While he could have been a professor of theology in any university, Durham instead spent a brief ten-year ministry preaching and lecturing for the most part in the Inner-Kirk of Glasgow Cathedral. It was thought that he poured so much of himself into his studies for sermons and lectures that it brought about his early death at the age of thirty-six. His works were often reprinted and left an impression that lasted for centuries. Recently, all of his sermons in two volumes and his lectures on the Book of Job and on the Ten Commandments have been published in new critical editions. Continuing with his lectures, the publishers are pleased to offer now a new critical edition of James Durham's largest book, which, while it is his more theologically intense work, retains the same practical Uses and Applications of his sermons and other lectures.Volume 3, Lectures on Chapters 12-22 completes this new edition of James's Durham's Commentary upon the Book of the Revelation in three volumes. In addition to presenting the remaining forty-one lectures covering chapters 12-22, this volume also contains the final two theological excursuses: Excursus 23, "Concerning the Unity of the Catholic Visible Church" after chapter 12, lecture 3; and Excursus 24 "Concerning the Difficulty of Salvation under Popery" after chapter 14, lecture 3. This final volume opens with a 64-page biography of James Durham containing much information that is new. The appendix contains a 60-page bibliography that details all Durham's known works and manuscripts, and from known dates a chronological catalog presents a hypothetical timeline of Durham's six years of preaching and lecturing in Glasgow. The volume closes with indexing for all three volumes.John Owen called James Durham, "one of good learning, sound judgement, and every way 'a workman that needeth not to be ashamed.'" To read Durham on Revelation is to find proof of this. His commentary provides what was, as Principal John MacLeod said, "in past days, the accepted Protestant view of that book". While Durham's historicist reading of Revelation is no longer the standard view, that should not deter readers, for, as Spurgeon said, "it would not be easy to find a more sensible and instructive work than this old-fashioned exposition. We cannot accept its interpretations of the mysteries, but the mystery of the gospel fills it with sweet savour." The finest treasure in this commentary is not, however, Durham's exegetical work (helpful though this is!). Contained in his commentary are independent treatises which are the purest of theological gold. Make what you will of Durham's interpretation of Revelation, but extended essays on the Trinity, the call to the ministry, the nature of justification, and so on present Reformed thought at its best. As Richard A. Muller has said, this work "offers significant access to seventeenth-century Reformed and Presbyterian thought ... Durham's work illustrates the relationship of Scripture with doctrine and piety and dogmatics." Taken all in all, readers of this work will surely ultimately agree with Durham's contemporary Robert Blair, who said of this work, "Many Writers have done worthily, but thou excellest them all."

Table of Contents: Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Be Strong in the Lord 2. Put on the Full Armor of God 3. The Schemes of the Devil 4. The Nature of Our Conflict 5. The Belt of Truth 6. The Breastplate of Righteousness 7. The Gospel of Peace Footwear 8. The Shield of Faith 9. The Helmet of Salvation 10. The Sword of the Spirit 11. Warfare Prayer 12. Warfare Prayer and Proclamation 13. Spiritual Warfare Debriefing Appendix 1: The Sovereignty of God and Satan Appendix 2: Can a Christian Be Demon-Possessed? Appendix 3: Pray for Your Pastors

The Pearl of Christian Comfort is a dialogue between a mature believer and a young Christian designed "for the instruction and consolation of all troubles hearts who are not properly able to distinguish between the law and the gospel." Petrus Dathenus (1531-1588) masterfully sets forth the relationship between faith and works in an evangelical and experimental manner typical of the early period of the Dutch Second Reformation. This succinct treatise lets the light of Scripture shine clearly on the practical issues involved in teaching and living the doctrines of sovereign grace.

The Puritans are often accused of being weak on Christology. In this revision of his doctoral dissertation for Westminster Theological Seminary, Daniels shows how wrong that assessment is. (Christian Religion)

What is man, and what relationship does man have to God? Dr. Vikers's answers to these questions intelligently defend and scripturally support the Reformed doctrines and provide the mental and spiritual fiber to answer unbelieving friends and family.