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Three Homilies concerning the Power of Demons

by St. John Chrysostom Read by InTheDesert 4.8
These homilies deal with errors against which Chrysostom throughout his life most strenuously contended. In an age of great depravity there …

Scripture Texts with Expositions and Sentence-prayers from Calvin's Commentaries on the Minor Prophets

by John Calvin Read by InTheDesert 4.5
The prayers of John Calvin, however, have received little attention, as compared with the fame which crowns his theological writings. His co…

Heraclitus, or Man's Looking-glass and Survey of Life

by Pierre Du Moulin Read by InTheDesert 4.8
This book is no other than a perfect map of man and anatomy of all ages; A "nosce te ipsum", which is the highest pitch and hardes…

On the Death of Satyrus and On the Belief in the Resurrection

by Saint Ambrose Read by InTheDesert 5
Two related addresses occasioned by the unexpected death of Ambrose's brother Satyrus: On the Death of a Brother (De excessu fratris Satyri)…

Commentary on Hebrews Chapter 8

by John Owen Read by InTheDesert
I should rejoice if any of you felt emboldened on . my advice to grapple with a work so ponderous as Owen’s Commentary on that Epistle - a l…

Two Godly and Learned Sermons

by John Calvin Read by InTheDesert 5
Two godly and learned sermons, made by that famous and worthy instrument in God's church, John Calvin. Which sermons were long since transla…

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book 1

by Richard Hooker Read by InTheDesert 4.5
Hooker resolved to investigate the position of the English Church, and to attempt to answer the question What is the basis upon which Church…

A Doubter's Doubts About Science and Religion

by Sir Robert Anderson Read by InTheDesert 5
A DOUBTER'S Doubts about Science and Religion was first published anonymously, at a time when the author was Assistant Commissioner of Polic…

Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism

by Zacharias Ursinus Read by InTheDesert 5
These lectures present a complete exposition of all the leading doctrines of the Christian religion in a most concise and simple form, adapt…

A Family Well-Ordered

by Cotton Mather Read by InTheDesert 4.8
An essay to render parents and children happy in one another handling two very important cases: I. What are the duties to be done by pious p…

The Incomparableness of God

by George Swinnock Read by InTheDesert 4.6
The Incomparableness of God, in His Being, Attributes, Works, and Word"For who in the heavens can be compared to the Lord? who among th…

On the Good of Marriage

by Saint Augustine of Hippo Read by InTheDesert 4.5
This treatise, and the following, were written against somewhat that still remained of the heresy of Jovinian. S. Aug. mentions this error i…

Man's Restoration by Grace

by Thomas Goodwin Read by InTheDesert 4.9
A discourse of the several parts which the three persons of the Godhead bear in the accomplishment of our salvation, and that they have take…

The Early Church Collection Volume 4

by Various Read by InTheDesert 4.3
This volume of the Early Church collection begins with Gregory of Nyssa's defense of the divinity of the Holy Spirit and Eusebius' account o…

Charles Simeon

by Handley Carr Glyn Moule Read by InTheDesert 5
Charles Simeon had come up to King’s college from Eton, a wild undergraduate, famous for his love of horses and extravagance in dress; but o…

The Analogy of Religion to the Constitution and Course of Nature

by Joseph Butler Read by InTheDesert 5
Joseph Butler's great work is the Analogy, published in 1736, and from that day read and admired by every highly-cultivated mind. He was ind…

The Faithful Covenanter

by Richard Sibbes Read by InTheDesert 4.8
The Faithful Covenanter in two sermons upon Genesis 17:7 by the late learned and reverend divine,Richard Sibbs, Doctor in divinity, master o…

Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Rochester

by Gilbert Burnet Read by InTheDesert 5
I believe that the good Bishop of Salisbury's account of the last days of poor young Rochester would, if carefully read, make more impressio…

A Breviate of the Life of Margaret Baxter

by Richard Baxter Read by InTheDesert 5
A breviate of the life of Margaret, the daughter of Francis Charlton, of apply in Shropshire, esq. and wife of Richard Baxter. For the use o…

The Age of the Puritans, Volume 3

by Various Read by InTheDesert 5
This volume of Age of the Puritans contains a wide diversity of writers and topics from the later 16th and 17th centuries. Not all would ide…

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