A number of
websites have church writings scanned from old books dating back
hundreds of years. These include CCEL, Archive.org, Gutenberg.org, and
Google.com/books.
I have included on this page some of those public domain documents, but
updated to modern English, usually with a table of contents,
footnotes, and corrections (wrong Scriptural citation,
misspellings, etc.). So you'll be able to read Bunyan, Owen, and others
without straining to understand their words. They are modernized,
not paraphrased. I've tried to retain the original flavor of the
various authors so you'll hear "their voice," not mine. Enjoy.
For printed and
digital versions of other reformed classics, I recommend these sites:
GLH
Publishing; Christian Classics (modernized); Digital Puritan;
and Monergism.
Click the title
for the PDF format. Other formats are to the right (you may need to
right-click and choose "save target as").
NOTE: KINDLE now accepts ePUB files and no
longer supports azw3 or mobi formats (they've been removed).
- Alleine - Baxter's Preface
to Alleine's "Alarm" - modernized
80k epub
- Alleine - Alarm
to Unconverted Sinners - modernized
800k epub
- Alleine - Saint's Pocket Book of Promises - modernized 850k
epub
- Alleine
- Biography by Stanford - modernized 1100k (outstanding!) epub
- Allen,
Roland - Missionary Methods - 690k epub
- Ames, Wm. - Substance of the Christian Religion - modernized 1300k epub
- Ames, Wm. - Marrow of Sacred Divinity (1639) - modernized 3000k epub
- Athanasius and the Arian Controversy - Gwatkin
(1908) 560k (excellent!) epub
- Athanasius
- On the Incarnation - 335k epub
- Augustine - The Swan is
Not Silent - by John Piper 65k
- Augustine
- City of God (Dods' transl. in Schaff's PNF 1-02, 1886) (html
link) CCEL
- Augustine - Confessions
(Outler's 1955 edition), modernized
1200k epub
- Augustine - Grace and Free Will - modernized 262k epub
- Augustine
- Meditations - modernized
1300k
- Baxter - The
Reformed Pastor - modernized 910k (with D. Wilson's Preface) epub
- Baxter - Saints' Everlasting Rest - modernized 1400k epub
- Baxter (vs. Owen) on Justification - Matthew Mason
300k
- Bayne, Paul
- Biographical Sketch (140k)
- Beza
- Rights of Magistrates - modernized
517k epub
- Bolton,
Samuel - True Bounds of Christian Freedom - modernized 1272k epub
- Boston, Thomas - Crook in the Lot (modernized by Jason Roth) - link
- Boston,
Thomas - The Art of Man-Fishing - modernized
480k epub
- Boston, Thomas - The Fourfold State - link
(monergism.com) - modernized
- Boston, Thomas - Life & Times (biog) - Thomson
modernized
epub (exquisite!)
- Bowen, George
- Letters 1847-58 (Missionary to Bombay) 1900k epub
- Bowen, George - Love Revealed - Excerpts, modernized epub
- Bridge, Wm. - No Reason for Discouragements - modernized
70k epub
- Bridges, Chas. - The Christian Ministry - modernized 3 megs epub
- Brown, A.G. -
East London Tabernacle Sermons - modernized 2.2 megs epub
- Brown, A.G. - The Devil's Mission of Amusement
43k
- Buchanan, Jas - Office & Work of the Holy Spirit
- modernized 1.9
megs epub
- Bullinger
- DECADES (1549-1552 all 5 in 1 vol) - modernized 9megs htm
htmlz epub
- Burroughs, Jeremiah - Rare Jewel of Christian
Contentment - modernized
1375k epub
- Burroughs, Jeremiah - Saints Duty in Times of Extremity
- modernized 230k epub
- Burroughs,
Jeremiah - Gospel Worship - link (monergism.com) - modernized
- Calvin, John - Institutes - Beveridge ed. - (link)
- Carey, Wm
- Biography by Geo. Smith - 1900k epub
- Carey, Wm - Memoir
by nephew Eustace Carey - 2300k epub
- Carey, Wm - Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians - 236k
- Caryl, Jos. - Seed Thoughts - Excerpts from Job - modernized 430k epub
- Chalmers, Thomas - The Expulsive Power of a New
Affection - modernized
150k
- Colquhoun,
John - The Law & the Gospel (1815) (link) pronounced "Calhoun"
- Colquhoun, John - Evangelical Repentance (link)
- Colquhoun,
John - Spiritual Comfort (1814) - modernized
1700k epub
- Colquhoun,
John - Union with Christ (14 pages) epub
- Coxe, Nehemiah - A Discourse of the Covenants
(1681) modernized
1200k epub
- Cyprian
- On the Lord's Prayer - modernized 325k epub
- Dickson, David - Sum of Saving Knowledge - (1650) - modernized 25 pages epub
- Edwards, Jonathan -
- Farel
- Life of William Farel - by Kirchhofer 1837
modernized
670k epub
- Farel - Story of the Swiss Reformation - by
Blackburn 1865 740k epub
- Fisher - Marrow of Modern Divinity - 1645 modernized
1900k epub
- This
modernized edition includes Thomas Boston's Notes.
- Flavel, John - Method of Grace - modernized 150k epub
- Flavel, John - Mystery of Providence - modernized
830k epub
- Flavel,
John - Keeping the Heart - (modernized
by Jason Roth) review
- Fuller, Andrew - Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation
- modernized 900k epub
- Gill, John - God's Everlasting Love to His Elect -
modernized
435k epub
- Gill, John - I am
the Lord's - (on Isa 44.5) modernized 20k
- Hermas - The Shepherd 520k (Robts-Donaldson trans.)
- Hodge,
Charles - The Way of Life - modernized
900k (excellent!) epub
- Hooker, Thomas -
Exposition of the Lord's Prayer - modernized
300k epub
- Hooker, Thomas - Poor Doubting Christian - modernized 645k epub
- Hooker,
Thomas - Life Of (Edw.
Hooker, 1870) - modernized
1500k epub
- Hooker, Thomas - Soul's Preparation for Christ
(1638) - modernized
1100k epub
- Hooker, Thomas - Summe of Church Discipline (1648)
- modernized 4.1
meg epub
- Additional materials are included in this
seminal work.
- Further historical background:
- Visible Saints by Edmund S. Morgan
(Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca NY, 1963)
- Puritan Manifestos
(eds. Freere and Douglas, NY, 1907)
- Judson, Adoniram - Biography by Edw. Judson -
2600k epub
- Judson,
Adoniram - Christian Baptism - 1817 modernized - 500k epub
- Judson, Ann H. - Memoirs - 1829 modernized 1800k epub
- à Kempis, Thomas - Imitation
of Christ - 1940 modernized (link)
- à Kempis, Thomas - Imitation
of Christ - modernized using
the 1900 re-translation (1500k)
- Kiffin,
William - Remarkable Passages - Orme's 1823 ed. modernized
- Knox, John - Knox and His Writings - from Knox's Practical Works 1845 80k
- Marshall, Walter - Gospel Mystery of Sanctification
(1692) modernized 1400k epub
- Miller,
Samuel - The Ruling Elder (1831) modernized
1300k (excellent!) epub
- Ness,
Christopher - Antidote Against Arminianism (1836 ed.) modernized 475k epub
- Nettleton,
Asahel - The Forgotten Evangelist - Ehrhard 250k
- Nettleton,
Asahel - Regeneration (brief article)
- Nettleton,
Asahel - Memoir - Tyler (1852) modernized 1400k epub
- Nettleton,
Asahel - Remains (1845) 37 Revival Sermons modernized 1500k epub
- Newton, John - Letters (link)
- Newton, John - In Evil Long I Took Delight (poem)
- Perkins,
Wm. - Art of Prophesying - modernized
540k epub
- Perkins, Wm. - Golden Chain - modernized 1600k epub
- Perkins, Wm. - Treatise of the Vocations - modernized
385k epub
- For other
works by Perkins, nicely digitized but not modernized, click here.
- Pike
and Hayward - Cases of Conscience (1755) - modernized 2500k epub
- Rogers, Timothy - Trouble of Mind (Melancholy) - modernized 3500k epub
- Ryle, JC -
Assurance 295k
- Ryle,
JC - Happiness (Grace Gems, link)
- Ryle,
JC - Holiness - modernized
2300k epub
- Ryle, JC
- Private Judgment 310k
- Ryle,
JC - The Upper Room - modernized
1900k epub
- Ryle,
JC - Simplicity in Preaching (from The Upper Room)
- Ryle,
JC - Thoughts for Young Men 226k (annotated)
- Shepard, Thomas
- Sum of Christian Religion - modernized 210k epub
- Sibbes, Richard - The Bruised
Reed - modernized 400k epub
- Sibbes, Richard - The Art of Contentment - modernized 270k
- Smeaton, George - The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
- 1882 1200k epub
- Traill, Robt. - Vindication of Justification - modernized 190k epub
- Turretin,
Francis - The Atonement of Christ - modernized 570k epub
- Turretin,
Francis - Forensic Justification modernized
115k
- Tyndale - Obedience of a Christian Man - modernized 1200k epub
- Tyndale
- Biographical Notice - modernized
340k epub
- Watson, Thomas -
The Bible and the Closet - modernized 310k epub
- Watson, Thomas - Divine Contentment (modernized by Jason Roth) - link
- Watson, Thomas - The Godly Man's Picture - modernized 850k epub
- Watson, Thomas - Repentance
- modernized 475k epub
- Watson, Thomas - The Duty of Self-denial (link)
- Watson, Thomas - Saint's Spiritual Delight - modernized 525k epub
- Includes A Christian on the Mount, and A Christian on Earth Still in Heaven
- Whitefield, George - Selected sermons (link to
Monergism.org)
- Whitefield's Letter to Wesley (Election vs Free
Grace)
- Wilberforce - Real Christianity
- 1000k modernized
(aka, Practical View of Christianity)
epub
- Wilson, Daniel - Life of Daniel Wilson - Biography
by Bateman 1860 updated and annotated
LARGE (4700k) epub
- Wilson
was the Anglican Bishop of Calcutta in the early 1800's. This was an
extraordinary man in extraordinary times, who substantially as well as
substantively impacted the church and the world for Christ, by simply
remaining true to the faith. An exceptional biography by his son-in-law.
- Wycliffe, John - Tracts & Treatises - 2200k modernized epub
Martin
Luther
I suppose that CS Lewis
is a modern "classic" but I cannot include his works on this website,
because they are still copyrighted. He died in 1963, and copyright
continues for 70 years after the death of the author. You will find
"The
Little Red Lizard" on the Arts Page, because
it's only an excerpt from his book, The
Great Divorce;
and I've made some comments on it, making it "educational." But because
CS Lewis is very popular, and although I immensely enjoy his articles
and books, it ought to be said that his theology is questionable at
times. He readily admitted that he was not a theologian. That being
true, it would be a mistake to use his works as a basis for
doctrinal instruction. They are not metaphors or modern
parables; they are not analogies of biblical truth. They are
Christianesque fiction and generalized defenses of spirituality, which
perhaps present the Christian Faith as reasonable to non-Christians.
But they are not doctrinal in any sense, nor did he intend them to be.
Here are two helpful articles about his theology:
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