We have just discovered a useful new resource which, though it does not provide a download option for the commentaries concerned, does provide online access to the text so at least the book can be studied.

Please check out the following on the Commentaries pages:

Hosea by Edward Pococke

Revelation by Thomas Brightman

The Ten Commandments by Dod and Cleaver

Colossians by Edward Elton

The Dutch Annotations

Critica Sacra by Edward Leigh in two parts

Judges by Richard Rogers

Colossians by Robert Rollock

Sarah and Hagar by Josias Shute

Leviticus by Andrew Willet

Romans by Andrew Willet

Daniel by Andrew Willet

Romans by Thomas Wilson

Zechariah by Benjamin Blayney

David by Patrick Delany

We have found an odd volume of Caryl on Job at Google Books. We shall add this to the main Puritan Library at a later date, but are pointing it out on this blog for the time being for those interested in getting hold of it.

Caryl on Job chapters 18 to 21

This is a 60.4 MB download.

The election of the first African-American president may be a historic moment, but not all historic moments are necessarily good.

Certainly in terms of race relations this may be a positive thing, but from a Christian perspective, the negatives far outweigh the positives. His election indicates the determined abandonment of Christian values by a majority of the American electorate! Even today we saw an interview with Alice Walker (author of “The Color Purple”), who is representative of the new liberal intelligentsia, who while celebrating the victory of Barack Obama was lamenting how much there was still to do on equality legislation and mentioned in particular the very recent failure of one state (California) to legalise homosexual marriage! Christians knew that the stakes were extremely high- and this is a sad day indeed.

Nevertheless while we share the sadness felt by many of our American evangelical brethren, as Albert Mohler points out in his recent blog entry, this is no time to give up the fight. If anything it should make Christians even more determined to stand up for core Christian values, and to argue for them in church and state.

May God help you all do to so. We shall certainly pray for the new President, for the nation and for the cause of Christ.

In the meantime we would have our brethren remember the words of one wise old Puritan:

All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were
sometimes so offended … we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the
difficult passage through the wilderness was to Israel, “the right way
to the city of habitation.” — John Flavel

The 1 November marked the first anniversary of the launch of our new website, and we give thanks to God for the tremendous encouragement we have received and for the incredible statistics for a humble little website with no SEO organisations involved.

According to the statistics we have had 23,559 visits from 143 countries which include countries that are officially opposed to the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ!

THE DVD PROJECT

At present we are busy investigating the feasability of the DVD project and trying to get some costings done. We hope to be in a position to announce our findings by the end of this year, and if possible to start producing the DVDs early next year. These will be produced to a high standard and should comprise all of the works currently shown as downloadble files, and also extras like the Baptist works and the works of the Reformers. So please do look out for this announcement.