Evangelical preaching and divinity in English, from the eighteenth-century revivals to the early twentieth century. This is the largest section of the library: 6,926 notes across four authors and one collective work, all of them in the public domain.
Charles Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892), the “Prince of Preachers,” was the Reformed Baptist pastor of the New Park Street Chapel and then the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London for thirty-eight years. He left one of the largest bodies of published work of any Christian author: the weekly sermons alone run to 63 volumes and 3,512 sermons, preached between 1855 and 1917. Alongside them are The Treasury of David, Morning and Evening, Lectures to My Students, All of Grace, The Soul Winner, Faith’s Checkbook, John Ploughman’s Talk, Commenting and Commentaries, Till He Come, the Sermons on Proverbs, and A Puritan Catechism. Texts from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and The Spurgeon Archive.
Author index: Charles Spurgeon (4,633 notes)
John Wesley
John Wesley (1703–1791), Anglican cleric, evangelist, and — with his brother Charles — founder of Methodism. The collection gathers his Sermons on Several Occasions (all 141, in the Jackson 1872 numbering) and the Explanatory Notes on the whole Bible, which together are the doctrinal standards of Methodism, along with the Journal, the prose treatises and appeals, and the Poetical Works.
Author index: John Wesley (1,399 notes)
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), pastor at Northampton, missionary at Stockbridge, and the foremost theologian of the Great Awakening. The two-volume Works in the Banner of Truth edition — revised and corrected by Edward Hickman, 1834 — from the CCEL text: Volume 1 opens with Sereno E. Dwight’s Memoirs and the major treatises, Volume 2 holds the sermons, the shorter treatises, the Life and Diary of David Brainerd, and the biblical notes.
Author index: The Works of Jonathan Edwards (589 notes)
J. C. Ryle
John Charles Ryle (1816–1900), first Bishop of Liverpool and the outstanding evangelical Anglican writer of the Victorian era. He spent thirty-eight years in country parishes in Suffolk before Disraeli sent him to Liverpool at sixty-four, and he wrote as he preached — plainly, directly, and for ordinary people. Holiness, the Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, Practical Religion, Christian Leaders of the Last Century, Coming Events and Present Duties, The Upper Room, and the shorter tracts.
Author index: J. C. Ryle (214 notes)
The Fundamentals
Ninety essays published between 1910 and 1915 by the Testimony Publishing Company of Chicago, funded by the brothers Lyman and Milton Stewart and edited in turn by A. C. Dixon, Louis Meyer, and R. A. Torrey. Written by leading conservative theologians of Britain and North America in defence of orthodox Protestant belief against the higher criticism and Darwinism, and mailed free of charge to pastors and missionaries across the English-speaking world. The work gave its name to the movement later called fundamentalism. Given here in the four-volume arrangement edited by Torrey for the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (1917).
Index: The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth (91 notes)