Gems from Ages Past

Rebukes for Sin by the Flames of Hell $12.95
Hell is so little preached today that most people in the world do not believe it is a real place, nor do they believe that they will ever go there. The climate of modern Christianity is one of the main reasons why this book is so important. How is it that we have come to a place in our society when large numbers of people in the church don't believe in a literal hell? Today's pastors build large megachurches by denying the most fundamental aspects of the faith like the doctrine of hell, appealing to the itching ears of their congregations. Thomas Doolittle has answers for our modern heretics in Rebukes for Sin by the Flames of Hell. Doolittle begins by answering a series of nine of the most common questions that people ask about hell, included are: Will God punish sinners after this life? Is there such a place as hell and such a thing as hellfire? Why has God appointed such a place? Who are they that shall be burned in this fire? Will the greatest part of men burn in this fire? Will there be degrees of pain and torment in this fire? Then he deals with issues like the names used for hell in the Bible, the extremity of the pains of the damned, the eternal unending nature of the torments in hell, the differences between fire on earth and fire in hell, and the characters of those who will be burned in hell. All the while Doolittle asks probing and penetrating questions of the reader to get him to evaluate his own condition, and uses striking imagery to terrify the ungodly.
[Add to Cart] [View Cart]

Divine Providence
$16.95
Divine Providence by Stephen Charnock. One of the finest works ever written on God's divine providence, NOT included in any 20th century edition of Charnock's works or The Existence and Attributes of God. Charnock covers every aspect of divine providence which one might imagine and many which would never occur to us today. This is a work which if studied and pondered will cause one to break out in praise to our glorious God who controls all things by His divine providence. Those who have loved Charnock's brilliant work The Existence and Attributes of God will be delighted to learn that this treatise, left out of 20th century editions of that work, is now back in print again after over 140 years. Includes a biographical sketch which was a part of the original work. 140 pages.

Private Thoughts on Religion
$17.95
Private Thoughts on Religion by Thomas Adam Private reflections from the notes and diary of Rev. Thomas Adam (1701-1784), rector of Wintringham, which will pierce the heart and humble the soul. "Mr. Adam takes us out of our ordinary track of reading and reflection, and shows us ourselves. He structinizes the whole soul; dissipates the false glare which is apt to mislead the judgment; and thus teaches us to make our religion more and more spiritual, holy, solid, practical, humble, sincere...The characteristic of the entire volume is depth of scriptural and experimental knowledge. It requires, therefore, thought and time, in order to be appreciated. But it will amply repay both. And it may perhaps, be affirmed, that there is no work of modern Divinity which is more likely, under God's blessing, to elevate and purify the standard of religious sentiment in those who study it." Adam's thoughts are arranged topically in such headings as God, Repentance, Human Depravity, Jesus Christ, Faith, the Christian Life, Prayer, the Pastoral Office, Heaven, and the Scriptures. One of the most humbling works you will ever read. 300 pages.

Self-Deception
$9.95
Self-Deception by Jacob Helffenstein, Jonathan Edwards, and William C. Nichols. "Among the twelve apostles there was a traitor. Among the thousands numbered as converts during the great revival which commenced on Pentecost, there were an Ananias and a SapphiraIn almost every church, however pure, are perhaps some whom a deceived heart hath turned aside." So writes Jacob Helffenstein in one of the most piercing books on the topic of self-deception to be written in the last two hundred years. Helffenstein explores the numerous ways in which professors of religion are deceived about their eternal salvation. Sections include the nature and forms of self-deception, the danger of self-deception, the consequences of self-deception, and the remedy for self-deception. Added to this work by Helffenstein are a sermon by Jonathan Edwards Persons Ought to Endeavor to Be Convinced of Sin and a newly written section by William C. Nichols on Seeking God. 112 pages. Paperback.

Spiritual Refining, Volume 1
$18.95
Spiritual Refining: The Anatomy of True and False Conversion, Volume 1 by Anthony Burgess is a classic work on true and false conversion, regeneration, signs of true and false grace, and assurance of salvation. Originally published in 1652, we have selected 30 of the best sermons from the original work which relate most to today. Some of the sermons included are: Showing the Difference Between Assurance and Presumption; That Opposition to and Abstinence from Sin is a Sign of Grace; Gifts and Parts in Matters of Religion No Sign of Grace; External Obedience to the Law of God, No Sure Evidence for Heaven; The Difficulty and in Some Sense the Impossibility of Salvation; That a Man's Leaving those Gross Sins he hath Lived in, Is No Sign of Grace; Showing What the New Birth or Regeneration Is; Laying Open the Counterfeits of the New Birth; Showing the Counterfeits of the New Creature, and more. They have been modernized and newly typeset. The book is approximately 300 pages in length.

Spiritual Refining, Volume 2
$18.95
Spiritual Refining: The Anatomy of True and False Conversion, Volume 2, by Anthony Burgess Thirty new sermons from the classic Puritan work on true and false conversion originally published in 1652. Some of the sermons this volume contains are: A Man Willing to Have His Soul Searched by God is a Sign of Grace, What Kind of Persons Are Most Unlikely Ever to be Converted, Of God's Framing and Devising Calamities That Men Might Turn From Their Evil Doings, How Afflictions Are Operative to the Conversion of Men, That Not All Mankind Are Called With a Saving Call and God's Justice Cleared in that Point, Of Election and Reprobation and the Fewness and Properties of Those that Are Chosen, and more. They have all been modernized and newly typeset.

Genuine Salvation
$11.95
Genuine Salvation by Arthur W. Pink A collection of the best writings of Arthur W. Pink on salvation. Originally published in Studies in the Scriptures, writings in this book include Regeneration, Repentance, Coming to Christ, Saving Faith, and Signs of the Times. Pink had keen insight into the very problems we face today regarding the compromising of the gospel message saying, "Tens of thousands of professing Christians are filled with a vain and presumptuous confidence that all is well with them. They delude themselves with hopes of mercy while continuing to live in a course of self-will and self-pleasing. They fancy they are fitted for Heaven, while every day that passes finds them the more prepared for Hell." 160 pages. Paperback.

Knowing the Heart
$23.95
Knowing the Heart: Jonathan Edwards on True and False Conversion by Jonathan Edwards, Edited by William C. Nichols. A book of almost entirely previously unpublished sermons and treatises by Jonathan Edwards on the heart of man with commentary by William C. Nichols on each sermon explaining what we can learn about the heart of man, man's depravity, and how we can relate the knowledge of man's heart to the practice of self-examination and evangelism. Included are sermons entitled The Heart of Man is Exceeding Deceitful, Man Is Naturally a Proud Creature, The Gadarenes Loved Their Swine Better Than Jesus Christ, A Pretence of Trusting in Christ Is Vain as Long as Men Live Wicked Lives, Those Whom God Hates-He Often Gives a Plenty of Earthly Things To, A Man May Eternally Undo Himself in One Thought of the Heart, and others.