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:
Revelation by Thomas Brightman
The Ten Commandments by Dod and Cleaver
Critica Sacra by Edward Leigh in two parts
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.”
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!
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.
We have added a random quote generator to this blog which will produce random quotes from a substantial database of Puritan Gems. We shall be adding more and more quotes with time. In the meantime we trust that you will enjoy and benefit from this new feature.
We’ve added the Book Academy blog to blog search engine Technorati. Please feel free view our Technorati Profile. On a similar note, our feed is now run through feedburner to make it easier to subscribe to updates. You can view the feed and subscribe to it at http://feeds.feedburner.com/bookacademy.
What a surprise to see our creation of “Puritan portraits” now appearing on Wikipedia under their article on the Puritans!! Not sure how this sits comfortably with their copyright policy!
A bit rich when one editor has taken it upon himself to remove all links to our website from this and other pages related to the Puritans - and this was done on the basis that the links represent spamming, supposedly adding nothing of intrinsic value to the pages devoted to the puritans- even though we are indexing and makng available the works of the puritans!
We have just added Spurgeon’s daily devotions to our website. This operates on a rotation basis so that each day the appropriate reading appears on the page. The readings are for morning and evening - in other words the relevant reading will be shown on the page depending on the time of day that the page is accessed. Currently there is a slight problem in that we are using a US based server and we have not yet figured out how to toggle the time depending on GMT. We are working on this..
In the meantime, we hope that our readers will appreciate and benefit from this new addition.
We have noticed a great many broken links for Google books. When we have tried to locate the books we have noticed an error message that the books is not on the server. Appears that Google have either changed the location of many of their books or, for reasons known only to Google, removed them altogether.
We shall try our utmost to restore the links where the works still exist, but since this is affecting 1 in 4 Google books it is going to be a time consuming exercise.
If our readers are so inclined they can assist us by reporting any broken links and also reporting the links to moved works when they come across them. The reason we are asking for such help is that we have encountered a problem in our search for some of these works in that the Google Books search engine kicks us out treating our searches as spam bots!
Please bear with us while we try to rectify matters.
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