{"title":"Banner of Truth Classics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBelow are the books that Banner of Truth considers to be its most enduring classics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e These profoundly biblical and doxological works have withstood the tests of time, offering guidance to Christians across generations. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmong the notable titles are \"The Christian in Complete Armour\" by William Gurnall, \"The Works of John Owen,\" \"The Works of Jonathan Edwards,\" \"Lectures to My Students\" by Charles H. 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The doctrinal framework that the Assembly established in their Confession also provided the foundation of the central creedal documents of the Baptists and Congregationalists that were clarified in the decades following the Assembly. Although the hoped-for unity between the English and Scottish churches did not materialise, nevertheless the documents produced by the Assembly, and especially the  Confession of Faith and  Larger  and  Shorter Catechisms , would become the touchstone for sound doctrine, cherished by generations of Christians as a well-honed summary of biblical truth. Of the  Confession of Faith  itself, Professor John Murray noted: ‘The  Westminster Confession  is the last of the great reformation creeds. No creed of the Christian church is comparable to that of Westminster in respect of the skill with which the fruits of fifteen centuries of Christian thought have been preserved, and tat the same time examined anew and clarified in the light of that fuller understanding of God’s word which the Holy Spirit has imparted.’ This volume contains the  Confession of Faith , the  Larger  and  Shorter Catechisms , and the other principal documents to come out of the Westminster Assembly. The text is newly typeset, and biblical references are given in full. Later American revisions of the  Westminster Confession  are included in an appendix.","brand":"Banner of Truth Trust","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42876133933210,"sku":"9781848717688","price":16.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/6912\/products\/9781848717688.jpg?v=1590186813"},{"product_id":"psalms-11","title":"Psalms","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough more than six hundred commentators have written on the Psalms, it has long been difficult to find a comprehensive treatment of this book of Scripture in one volume. Some expositions have excelled in scholarship, but, unlike the Psalter, in instructing the mind they have failed to exercise the heart. Dr Plumer’s Commentary avoids this defect, the author believing that from the Psalms ‘piety has derived more nourishment than from any other source,’ and that his work should serve that same purpose. In 1211 pages he gives both exposition and doctrinal and practical remarks and presents in readable form a great wealth of material drawn from all the leading commentators who had gone before him. In the opinion of Dr John Macleod of Edinburgh, he succeeded in producing the best single volume on this book of Scripture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGraduating from Princeton Seminary in 1826, Plumer was a well-known Southern Presbyterian preacher and writer who spent the last thirteen years of his life as a Professor at Columbia Theological Seminary, South Carolina. He produced his exposition of the Psalms during the prime of life, and, as he tells us, ‘never felt more disposed to any work.’ In the opinion of others, Dr Plumer was outstanding as a spiritual Christian: ‘His prayers,’ wrote Moses D. Hoge, ‘were the tender pleadings of a soul in communion with God.’ Of the place which the Psalms had in his own experience he writes: ‘During a Christian and ministerial life, neither short, uneventful, nor free from dark days and sharp sorrows, the author has never been able to secure to himself, or administer to others, full support and abounding consolation without a resort to the Psalms.’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Banner of Truth Trust","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44542137630874,"sku":"9780851512099","price":10.92,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/6912\/files\/684104_LRG.jpg?v=1710367234"},{"product_id":"the-works-of-jonathan-edwards-2-volume-set-3","title":"Works of Jonathan Edwards, The: 2 Volume Set","description":"The full edition of Edwards’ Works, in two volumes. Dr. D. M. Lloyd-Jones said ‘In my early days in the ministry there were no books which helped me more, both personally and in respect of my preaching, than this two-volume edition of  The Works of Jonathan Edwards …I devoured these volumes and literally just read and read them. It is certainly true that they helped me more than anything else. If I had the power I would make these two volumes compulsory reading for all ministers! Edwards seems to satisfy all round; he really was an amazing man.’","brand":"Jonathan Edwards","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44545888092314,"sku":"9780851513973","price":43.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/6912\/files\/684932_LRG.jpg?v=1710426379"},{"product_id":"holiness-2","title":"Holiness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHoliness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots\u003c\/em\u003e is perhaps J. C. Ryle’s best-known and, arguably, best-loved book. Although many things have changed since 1877, when this book was first published, one thing remains the same: ‘real practical holiness does not receive the attention it deserves.’ It was to remedy this attention deficit, and to counter false teaching on this most important subject, that Ryle took up his pen.\u003cbr\u003eThe twenty-one chapters in this enlarged edition highlight:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe real nature of holiness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe temptations and difficulties which all must expect who pursue it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe life-transforming truth that union with Christ is the root of holiness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe immense encouragement Jesus Christ holds out to all who strive to be holy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoliness, as with all of Ryle’s works, is clear and concise, penetrating and practical.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J. C. 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Accordingly, he speaks in these pages not so much to students as to the church at large in this critical century of her history. Such chapters as ‘Some Necessary Emphases in Preaching’, ‘The Power of the Holy Spirit’, and ‘The Church of Mission’, show how thoroughly he understood the great inadequacies of much contemporary Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume 2 of his \u003cem\u003eCollected Writings\u003c\/em\u003e provides virtually John Murray’s own selection from his articles and lectures in systematic theology. In it will be found definitive treatments of subjects upon which, in the judgement of many, he advanced the frontiers of reformed theology and gave fresh elucidation of biblical truth. This is most evident in the chapters on Adamic Administration and Definitive Sanctification, but the seed-thoughts of further insight are also clearly evident in many other places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe arrangement is in seven sections which deal comprehensively with the themes of Man, Common Grace, Christ and Redemption (2 sections), Sanctification , Church and Sacraments, and the Last Things. To the authors own selection the publishers have added material from his class lectures. None of the 36 chapters has previously appeared in any of John Murray’s volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume 3 of Murray’s \u003cem\u003eCollected Writings\u003c\/em\u003e brings to the reader both the story of his life and some of the choicest fruit of his ministry. Since the publication of volumes one and two of the \u003cem\u003eCollected Writings of John Murray\u003c\/em\u003e, this third volume in the series has been eagerly awaited. As promised, it contains an extensive account of Murray’s life and the first published collection of his sermons. Added to these are the penetrating and valuable book reviews which he contributed to \u003cem\u003eThe Westminster Theological Journal\u003c\/em\u003e during the period 1939-1953. Iain H. Murray’s biography of John Murray traces his life from his boyhood days in the north of Scotland at the turn of the century, through the First World War (in which he suffered the loss of one eye), his theological training at Princeton and his long ministry as a Seminary Professor in Philadelphia, until his retirement, his return to his native Scotland, and his late marriage and brief period of fatherhood. The biography closes with a moving account of his last days during the early months of 1974.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume 4, Studies in Theology, is the concluding volume in the \u003cem\u003eCollected Writings of John Murray.\u003c\/em\u003e Like the preceding volumes it presents a selection of the finest work, produced mainly during his long and distinguished ministry as Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. Volume 4 includes articles dealing with several areas of doctrine which lay close to Murray’s heart. Among them is the hitherto unpublished work, ‘Jesus, the Son of God’, which is possibly his last piece of theological writing. Its chief characteristic – as with all of Murray’s writings – lies in the way in which the text of Scripture suffuses everything he says. This concern to be thoroughly biblical applied also to his doctrine of Scripture, to Christology, and to his understanding of the proclamation of the gospel and the Christian ethic. Outstanding articles in each of these areas may be found in these pages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Murray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44545888190618,"sku":"9780851513966","price":63.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/6912\/files\/900708_LRG.jpg?v=1710426384"},{"product_id":"the-works-of-john-owen-16-volume-set","title":"Works of John Owen, The - 16 Volume Set","description":"Despite his other achievements, Owen is best famed for his writings. These cover the range of doctrinal, ecclesiastical and practical subjects. They are characterized by profundity, thoroughness and, consequently, authority. 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I count it the highest honour God can confer on any man to call to be herald of the gospel’.\n\nVolume 1 traces the unforgettable events of his first pastorate, his wider ministry in Wales (where, by 1933, the press reported, ‘he draws thousands to hear his message in all parts of the Principality’), his first visits to North America, and finally his settlement at Westminster Chapel, London,on the eve of World War II. While some saw him as ‘the modern Moody’, and others as ‘the last of the Calvanistic preachers’, Iain H. Murray’s work makes constant use of the hitherto unpublished material, and is able to present Dr Lloyd-Jones’ own view of his life and ministry.\n\nVolume 2 contains much source material now in print for the first time and will be a primary text on evangelicalism in the twentieth century. At all vital points Iain Murray, the authorised biographer, is able to give his subjects own understanding of what happened. But neither public ministry nor controversy dominate the story. There is much on Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ personal life. The foremost impression left is of the overruling of divine providence and of the spiritual grace which shown in him as a Christian. Though in the eyes of the other Christians he was ‘full of faith and of the Holy Spirit’, yet in his own eyes he was, ‘ nothing but an old sinner saved by the grace of God’.","brand":"Iain H. Murray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44545888321690,"sku":"9780851517292","price":33.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/6912\/files\/10040757_LRG.jpg?v=1710426389"},{"product_id":"the-pilgrims-progress-8","title":"The Pilgrim's Progress","description":"Although John Bunyan’s Pilgrim emerged in Puritan dress from the Town Prison on Bedford Bridge in 1676, he has remained to this day, in more than 120 languages, an influence which is almost as wide as Christianity itself. Many explanations are offered for the book’s enduring appeal—the masterly allegory which can charm both child and adult; the great humanness of the characters who, after a few rapid strokes, appear in flesh and blood likeness; the plain, vivid English—and yet all these things are secondary.\n\nAbove all, Pilgrim’s Progress is a life story. It depicts the life which Bunyan himself lived and, at the same time, the life with which all Christians can substantially identify themselves. For, as Augustus M. Toplady wrote, the book describes ‘every stage of a Christian’s experience, from conversion to glorification.’ It does so with such abiding relevance because Bunyan’s world of thought is that of the Bible itself.\n\nThis re-typeset edition of Pilgrim’s Progress is based on the edition published by John C. Nimmo in 1895. 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