The Delay of Reformation Provokes God’s Indignation


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Nalton takes his text from Jer. 13:27, “I have seen your adulteries and your neighings, the lewdness of your whoredom, and your abominations on the hills in the fields: Woe unto you, O Jerusalem, will you not be made clean? When shall it once be?” This exhortation was written and preached to urge and promote the work of reformation for those who profess to be covenanters and need God’s help in making the work of Christ in biblical reform a reality. He covers three important doctrines: Doctrine 1: God pays precise and special attention to all the sins and abominations of a people in covenant with Him. Doctrine 2: These sins and abominations provoke Him to express His anger in terrifying threats. Doctrine 3: Those terrifying threats pronounced against a people call for immediate repentance and reformation. After covering these main parts to the treatise, he asks, but how, or by what means may the work of reformation be carried on, both in public and private, in Church and State, in our hearts and houses? He answers this with various motives and helps in the means which God has blessed his people. To be humbled for previous failures, to reflect on our vows to God, to be more involved in reformation in our church and family, to focus on unity for the cause of God and the Gospel, and to cultivate a heart ignited with a burning love for Christ and a passionate zeal for His honor and the advancement of the work of Reformation. Annexed to this work is a sermon by Richard Greenham (1531-1594) called Sweet Comfort for an Afflicted Conscience on Proverbs 18:14.




After Psychosis


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This book focuses on the symptoms of psychosis. This medical issue is oftentimes present in the "big three" of severe mental illnesses. After Psychosis addresses common misconceptions and common complaints from sufferers, and it delves into biblical solutions for their accompanying spiritual struggles. It is meant to come alongside both those suffering and those who are indirectly affected by these illnesses. Because it is a book focused on the spiritual struggles of those suffering, its primary content centers on the Bible and how it addresses such issues as not believing the best about others, suspicion, rash judgement, pride, and more. However, medication and a medical exam are a required first in these severe cases, but biblical guidance is also critical in addressing these issues of the heart with significant spiritual help. Psychologists and psychiatrists often cite the benefits of spiritual guidance to those suffering. This book examines the claims of neurobiologists to that effect, but it also addresses myths surrounding demon possession, as well as myths regarding certain cultural claims as to causes of severe mental illnesses. The goal is to find our satisfaction in trusting God rather than only relying on the very real benefits of modern medicine alone.




John Owen and the Civil War Apocalypse


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Using Owen’s sermons from this period, this book studies how his apocalyptic interpretation of contemporary events led to him making public calls for radical societal change. It combines his theological lineage with the historical context in which he preaches, and so represents part of a new historical turn in Owen Studies.




Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge: Census of printed books


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Continuing work on Pepys's library, and recent discoveries, necessitate expansion of the content and entries in the original volumes. This is the first in the Supplementary Series. Pepys's library has been, as he directed, preserved intact at his old Cambridge college since 1724. Between 1978 and 1994 a complete catalogue was published for the first time. The present title, essential to all users of the first volume in that series, N.A. Smith's Printed Books, vastly enhances the range of information available. The short-title arrangement of Printed Books is replaced by a numerical listing which follows the library's shelf-order; many entries have been extended, and where possible updated with reference to new scholarship; the location of MSS and other material treated elsewhere in the catalogue is also indicated, providing for the first time a published conspectus of the whole library. Extensive indexes have been provided for authors and ancillary contributors, subjects, printers and places of publication, and references which reflect Pepys himself and his bibliophilism.Concordances identify the Pepys books covered by STC, Wing, ESTC and other bibliographies. Dr CHARLES KNIGHTON gained his Ph D from Magdalene College, Cambridge.