Alexander Consolation: Addresses to the Suffering of the People of God. (Discourses on Select Topics, Address to the Suffering People of God)by James W. Alexander (1852)
Christian Life
Arnold The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps.
The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps.
by Thomas Arnold, D.D, Head Master of Rugby School, and Late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.
From the Fifth London Edition.
1856.
“As far as the principle on which Archbishop Laud and his followers acted went to re-actuate the idea of the church, as a co-ordinate and living power by right of Christ’s institution and express promise, I go along with them; but I soon discover that by the church they meant the clergy, the hierarchy exclusively, and then I fly off from them in a tangent.
“For it is this very interpretation of the church, that, according to my conviction, constituted the first and fundamental apostasy; and I hold it for one of the greatest mistakes of our polemical divines, in their controversies with the Romanists, that they trace all the corruptions of the gospel faith to the Papacy.”–COLERIDGE,
Literary Remains, vol. iii. p. 386.
This is a book of 30+ sermons on different aspects of the Christian life.
Mason, W. – Believer’s Pocket Companion
The Believer’s Pocket Companion
The One Thing Needful to Make Poor Sinners Rich—and Miserable Sinners Happy
By William Mason, August 9, 1773
In this work, Mason looks at various different aspects of “putting on Christ”; Who are exhorted, what is implied, putting on Christ in our minds, in our memory, in our conscience, why we should, when we should, and the blessed effects of putting on the mind of Christ.
“Christ is all!” Colossians 3:2
“Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.” Romans 13:14 Continue reading
Adams, N. – The Sable Cloud
The Sable Cloud
A Southern Tale with Northern Coments
by Nehemiah Adams
This 10 volume work by Adams (Congregationalist) is a culturally dated book, being the views of Northern Christians examined by Adams (a Southerner in the North-South dynamic conflict of the earlier years of the United States). The issue most central of this work is slavery and Christianity. It may be less useful than other books except to historians. Continue reading
Miller, J.R. – Making the Most of Life
Making the Most of Life
by J.R. Miller
Summary
This is a 25 chapter devotional work with chapters such as “making the most of life”, “Laid on God’s Altar”, “Christ’s Interest in our Common Life”, “Getting Christ’s Touch”, “Doing things for Christ”, “Swiftness in Duty”, “the Sin of Ingratitude”, “Some secrets of Happy Home Life”, “unfinished life building”, etc.
Evaluation by David Cox
I would recommend this work, but with the note that it is a devotional work with many poems and lyrics. Continue reading