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]]>An anthology of quotations from some of the most significant figures in the Christian centuries. A labour of love on the part of Horatius Bonar, one of its special attractions is its chronological order. We are led from the passionate words of the early martyr Ignatius of Antioch (‘Let all the malice of the devil come upon me; only may I enjoy Jesus Christ’) through reformers like John Bradford (‘Faith must go before, and then feeling will follow’) to Bonar’s friend Robert Murray M’Cheyne (‘You will be incomplete Christians if you do not look for the coming again of the Lord Jesus’).
Words Old and New is a treasure-trove for personal or family meditation and devotion, and an attractive introduction to many of the men and women of faith in past centuries.
Publishers’ Introduction | x | |
List of Authors: | 1 | |
Clement of Rome | 3 | |
Ignatius | 5 | |
Irenaeus | 8 | |
Clement of Alexandria | 11 | |
Tertullian | 13 | |
Cyprian | 16 | |
Athanasius | 18 | |
Macarius the Egyptian | 21 | |
Ephraem the Syrian | 23 | |
Gregory of Nazianzus | 25 | |
Basil the Great | 27 | |
Jerome Chrysostom | 30 | |
Augustine of Hippo | 32 | |
Fulgentius | 34 | |
Gregory the Great | 37 | |
Hildebert | 39 | |
Bernard of Clairvaux | 42 | |
Johannes Tauler | 44 | |
Francesco Petrarch | 46 | |
John Wycliffe | 48 | |
Geoffrey Chaucer | 50 | |
Thomas A Kempis | 53 | |
John Hus | 56 | |
Hieronymus Savonarola | 58 | |
Desiderius Erasmus | 61 | |
Jacobi De Valentia | 63 | |
Hugh Latimer | 66 | |
Martin Luther | 68 | |
Thomas Cranmer | 71 | |
John Bale | 74 | |
Philip Melanchthon | 77 | |
Aonio Paleario | 79 | |
Patrick Hamilton | 82 | |
Johann Heinrich Bullinger | 84 | |
John Knox | 86 | |
John Calvin | 88 | |
John Bradford | 90 | |
John Foxe | 92 | |
Thomas Cooper | 94 | |
Edwin Sandys | 96 | |
Rodolphus Gualter | 99 | |
Martin Chemnitz | 101 | |
Abraham Bucholtzer | 103 | |
Trelcatius of Leyden | 105 | |
Arthur Dent | 108 | |
Sir Walter Raleigh | 110 | |
Richard Hooker | 113 | |
Robert Rollock | 115 | |
William Perkins | 117 | |
Alexander Hume | 120 | |
Francis Bacon | 123 | |
George Abbot | 125 | |
Christopher Sutton | 128 | |
David Lindsay | 132 | |
Joseph Hall | 134 | |
John Davenant | 137 | |
Richard Sibbes | 140 | |
David Dickson | 142 | |
Joseph Mede | 144 | |
Francis Quarles | 147 | |
Jean Mestrezat | 150 | |
George Herbert | 153 | |
Thomas Goodwin | 155 | |
Edmund Calamy | 157 | |
Sir Matthew Hale | 159 | |
Tobias Crisp | 161 | |
Samuel Rutherford | 164 | |
Walter Cradock | 166 | |
John Trapp | 169 | |
Joseph Caryl | 171 | |
Edward Leigh | 173 | |
Sir Thomas Browne | 175 | |
John Milton | 177 | |
Edward Fisher | 180 | |
Nicholas Lockyer | 183 | |
John Pearson | 186 | |
Robert Leighton | 188 | |
Jeremy Taylor | 191 | |
Richard Baxter | 194 | |
John Owen | 196 | |
Thomas Brooks | 199 | |
Thomas Wilcox | 201 | |
Blaise Pascal | 204 | |
Hugh Binning | 206 | |
William Bates | 208 | |
John Flavel | 210 | |
John Bunyan | 212 | |
Stephen Charnock | 214 | |
Robert Fleming | 216 | |
John Howe | 219 | |
Andrew Gray | 222 | |
Pasquier Quesnel | 225 | |
James Janeway | 227 | |
Walter Marshall | 229 | |
William Beveridge | 232 | |
James Fraser of Brea | 235 | |
Anthony Burgess | 237 | |
Thomas Watson | 239 | |
Madame Guyon | 241 | |
Francois Fenelon | 244 | |
Benedict Pictet | 246 | |
Daniel Superville | 248 | |
Matthew Henry | 251 | |
Thomas Shepherd | 253 | |
Thomas Halyburton | 255 | |
Isaac Watts | 257 | |
Thomas Boston | 259 | |
Ebenezer Erskine | 261 | |
John M’Laurin | 263 | |
Thomas Adams | 266 | |
Jonathan Edwards | 269 | |
John Wesley | 271 | |
James Hervey | 273 | |
William Romaine | 275 | |
George Whitefield | 277 | |
John Berridge | 280 | |
Samuel Pike | 283 | |
David Brainerd | 286 | |
John Brown (of Haddington) | 288 | |
John Newton | 290 | |
George Horne | 292 | |
Sir Richard Hill | 294 | |
Samuel Horsley | 296 | |
Abraham Booth | 298 | |
Joseph Milner | 300 | |
Richard Cecil | 302 | |
Thomas Jones | 304 | |
John Lave | 306 | |
Alexander Stewart | 308 | |
Robert Hall | 310 | |
Robert Haldane | 312 | |
John Foster | 314 | |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 316 | |
William Howells | 318 | |
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | 320 | |
Thomas Chalmers | 323 | |
Asahel Nettleton | 325 | |
Edward Payson | 327 | |
John Brown | 329 | |
John Evans | 331 | |
John Angell | 333 | |
James Edward Bickersteth | 336 | |
Charles Wolfe | 338 | |
Edward Irving | 340 | |
William Nevins | 343 | |
Alexandre Rudolph Vinet | 345 | |
W. H. Hewitson | 348 | |
Robert Murray M’Cheyne | 350 | |
Lady Powerscourt | 352 | |
Appendices: | ||
Biographical Information | 357 | |
Authors Reprinted | 384 |
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]]>John Milne became minister of St. Leonard’s, Perth, in 1839, and was almost immediately associated with an awakening in which an outstanding circle of preachers shared. Among them were his close friends, William Burns, Robert M’Cheyne, and Horatius Bonar. Bonar, author and hymn writer, was at his best in his Life of John Milne. From first-hand knowledge of the revival period, and from original documents, he has preserved an account of Milne and the evangelicals who, in the words of Alexander Whyte, ‘had an immense influence on the religious life of Scotland’.
These men shared the conviction of M’Cheyne, ‘It is not great gifts God uses so much as great likeness to Christ’. The Milne biography wonderfully illustrates that truth. It shows us why, at a later date, C.H. Waller, could speak of the 1840s in Scotland as ‘the nearest approach he knew to apostolic conditions of faith and living’.
Apart from a short period of missionary service in India, Milne spent his whole ministry in Perth as a pastor and evangelist. Bonar’s account of one who lived close to Christ remains a guide to what the churches need in every age.
1 | Birth — Studies — Removal to Perth, 1807-39 | 1 |
2 | Settlement in Perth, 1839-40 | 11 |
3 | First Years in Perth, 1840-42 | 18 |
4 | Letters and Reminiscences, 1840-42 | 26 |
5 | Times of Refreshing, 1840-41 | 40 |
6 | Church Movements and Letters, 1841-43 | 68 |
7 | Times of Waiting upon God — Various Years | 85 |
8 | Evangelistic Tours — Various Years | 97 |
9 | Marriage and Family Sorrows, 1847-53 | 113 |
10 | Thoughts of India, and Correspondence about It, 1853 | 132 |
11 | Decision as to India, 1853 | 154 |
12 | Farewells — Voyage, 1853 | 168 |
13 | In India, 1853-54 | 183 |
14 | In India, 1854-57 | 211 |
15 | Resettlement in Perth, and Work There, 1858-66 | 259 |
16 | Illnesses and Labours, 1866-67 | 314 |
17 | His Last Months, 1868 | 342 |
18 | Miscellaneous Gatherings — Various Years | 366 |
Inscription on Monument | 398 | |
Appendices | 401 |
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]]>‘Written in 1874 and republished by The Banner of Truth in 1993, The Everlasting Righteousness stands (in my opinion) as the greatest book on the importance of the Cross and our imputed righteousness. It is clear, concise, devotional and beautifully written…. If you are looking for a readable book that exalts the Cross-centered life, relishes in the righteousness found only in the substitution of the Lamb, and magnifies the worth and beauty of Christ, turn to a talented hymn writer. Horatius Bonar has given us a clear book of great value on the central doctrine of the church. His poetic style will warm the heart after multiple readings and his clarity will equip the preacher with a lifetime of precious quotes.’ — TONY REINKE
How Shall Man Be Just with God? asks the subtitle of The Everlasting Righteousness. Here, indeed, is the greatest question a man may ask, and in this brief devotional study Horatius Bonar gives us the answer, an answer not to be found in man himself, but in God and the provision he has made in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Here is a book which delights in ‘the righteousness found only in the substitution of the Lamb, and magnifies the worth and beauty of Christ… Horatius Bonar has given us a clear book of great value on the central doctrine of the church. His poetic style will warm the heart…and his clarity will equip the preacher with a lifetime of precious quotes.’
I. | GOD’S ANSWER TO MAN’S QUESTION, | 1 |
II. | GOD’S RECOGNITION OF SUBSTITUTION, | 14 |
III. | THE COMPLETENESS OF THE SUBSTITUTION, | 26 |
IV. | THE DECLARATION OF THE COMPLETENESS, | 46 |
V. | RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR THE UNRIGHTEOUS, | 68 |
VI. | THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD RECKONED TO US, | 82 |
VII. | NOT FAITH, BUT CHRIST, | 107 |
VIII. | WHAT THE RESURRECTION OF THE SUBSTITUTE HAS DONE, | 126 |
IX. | THE PARDON AND THE PEACE MADE SURE, | 142 |
X. | THE HOLY LIFE OF THE JUSTIFIED, | 175 |
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