Classic Articles on Reformed Theology

A Sampling of the Writings of Pastors and Theolgians who Went Before Us

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ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER (1772—1851)

A Practical View of Regeneration
Catechetical Instruction
Sinners Welcome to Come to Jesus
Thoughts on Religious Experience (online book)
The Day of Judgement
The Lord's Day
The Nature & Means of Growth in Grace
Over 40 More sermons and writings...

JAMES W. ALEXANDER

Consolation
My Brother's Keeper

AUGUSTINE

A Treatise on Grace and Free Will
Anti Pelagious Writings

Augustine on the New Life in Christ
A Treatise On The Predestination
A Treatise on the Gift of Perseverance
The Confessions of St. Augustine
Enchiridion
On Christian Doctrine
The City of God
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JOSEPH ALLEINE

A Sure Guide to Heaven (.pdf)
An Alarm to the Unconverted

WILLIAM AMES

Baptism
Contentment
Justification
Creation
Hearing the Word
Sanctification
The Church Instituted
The Church Mystically Considered
Ordinary Ministers in the Church
The Covenant of Grace in the OT
The End of the World
Chart for Marrow of Theology
The Death of Christ
God and His Essence
The Decrees of God
The Subsistence of God

RICHARD BAXTER

How to Spend the Day with God
Mere Christian
The Reformed Pastor
Directions for Hating Sin
The Church
The Duties of Parents for their Chrildren
The Saints Everlasting Rest (.pdf)
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HERMAN BAVINCK

On Creation
Supra & Infralapsarianism
The History of the Doctrine of Predestination
The Origin, Essence, and Purpose of Man
The Greatness of God
The Knowledge of God
The Greatness and Miserableness of Man
The Divine Trinity
The Present State of the World
The Divine and Human Nature of Christ

DON BENEDETTO

The Benefit of Christ Crucified

LEWIS BERKHOF

Introduction to the New Testment
Systematic Theology
Summary of Christian Doctrine (book)
The Law and the Gospel
What is the Word of God?

THEODORE BEZA

The Two Parts of the Word of God
The Right of Magistrates Over Their Subjects
Faith & Justification
Jesus Christ the Son of God
The Two Parts of the Word of God: Law & Gospel
On Justification
Twenty-Nine Propositions
Life of John Calvin (.pdf)
A Brief Declaration of the Table of Predestination
Beza's Thirty-Eight Aphorisms against Castalion
Supralapsarianism
The Word of God

HUGE BINING

Of the Decrees of God
Of Prredestination

Of Predestination II
A Practical Catechism
Case of Conscience
A Treatise of Christian Love
Short bio
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HORATIUS BONAR

Follow the Lamb (.pdf)
God's Purpose of Grace

God's Way of Peace
God's Way of Holiness
God's Way of Peace - For the Anxious
Grace Reigning in Election
God's Will and Man's Will
How Shall I Go to God?
Not Faith But Christ
Revival Men
The Everlasting Righteousness (.pdf)
The Rent Veil
Words to Winners of Souls (.pdf)

THOMAS BOSTON

Come Unto Me, All You Who Are
Heavy Laden

Christ's Name Wonderful
Death
Of Election to Everlasting Life
Decrees of God
Hell
How the Spirit Enables Us to Pray
How We Ought To Think About God's Providence
Important Lessons from the Decrees of God
Man's Utter Inability to Rescue Himself
Of Man's Chief End and Happiness"
Praying in the Name of Christ
The Art of Manfishing
The Resurrection
The Sinfulness of Man's Natural State
The Nature of that Faith and Obedience which the Holy Scriptures Teach
The Crook in the Lot (online book)
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JOHN BRADFORD

Godly Meditations
Sermons & Tracts
Life of Master John Bradford
The Flesh & The Spirit
The Old Man and the New
The Places of The Law & The Gospel
Writings of the Rev. John Bradford

THOMAS BROOKS

Apples of Gold I Kings XIV. 13
True and False Assurance
Christ's Love to Poor Sinners
Helps Against Temptation
Love the Lord Jesus Christ
Quotations From Thomas Brooks
Select Quotations
The Distinguising Marks of False Teachers (.pdf)
The Legacies of Thomas Brooks
Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices (.pdf)
More Thomas Books Resources

JAMES BUCHANAN

How are Believers Guided into 'All Truth'?
The Spirit of Prayer
The Work of the Spirit in Enlightening the Mind
The Doctrine of Justification (.pdf)

JOHN CALVIN

The Institues of the Christian Religion & Alternate .pdf
The Necessity of Reforming the Church

A Treatise of the Eternal Predestination of God
36 Sermons by John Calvin
Blessed Are They Whose Iniquity is Forgiven
Calvin's Commentaries
Calvin's Calvinism
Christ Rightly to Have Merited Grace and Salvation for Us
Conversion of the Will is the Effect of Divine Grace Inwardly Bestowed
Grace & Salvation
Of Christian Liberty
Of Justification by Faith
When Mercy Obliterates Unrighteousness
On the Christian Life

Spiritual Discernment is Wholly Lost Until we are Regenerated
Sermons on Deuteronomy On the Sabbath (Part 1) / (Part 2)

THOMAS CHALMERS

A Sermon on Predestination
The Expulsive Power of a New Affection (.pdf)
Ethics
Fury Not in God (.pdf)
Necessity of Spirit to Give Effect to Preaching the Gospel
Works of Thomas Chalmers Online

STEPHEN CHARNOCK (1628-1680)

God's being the Author of Reconciliation
The Word, the Instrument of Regeneration
The Nature of Regeneration
The Efficiency of Regeneration
Delight in Prayer
The Power of God
The Fruits of Converting Grace in the Salvation of Sinners
God
God's Patience Abused
Existence and Attributes of God (excerpts)
God's Regard for His Own Glory, Seen in the Saving of Sinners
The Chief of Sinners Saved
The Necessity of Regeneration
Why Salvation Must Be Supernatural

WILLIAM COWPER

Hymns on Occasional Subjects
Hymns on The Christian Life
Scripture Hymns

The Poems of William Cowper

THOMAS CRANMER

Necessary Doctrine
A brief outline of the life and ministry of Archbishop Cranmer - Paul Mizzi
Book of Common Prayer
English Bible History
The Execustion of Thomas Cranmer
Letter of Thomas Cranmer on Henry VIII's divorce, 1533

R.L. DABNEY

Christ Our Penal Substitute
God's Indiscriminate Proposals of Mercy
The Five Points of Calvinism

Systematic Theology

JAMES DENNEY

The Historical Basis of the Christian Faith
The Place of Christ in the New Testament Faith
FIRE, OIL, WATER & WIND: Trying to Control the Holy Spirit

JONATHAN EDWARDS

A Divine and Supernatural Light...
Religious Affections (.pdf)
Freedom of the Will (.pdf)
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
The Sole Consideration, that God Is God
Treatise on Grace
On Corporate Prayer for Revival
Christian Knowledge
God's Sovereignty in the Salvation of Men
The Distinguishing Marks of a Work fo the Spirit of God
True Saints, When Absent from the Body, Are Present with the Lord
Men Naturally Are God's Enemies
Pressing Into the Kingdom of God
The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners
God Glorified in Man's Dependence
The Resolutions of Jonathan Edwards (.pdf)
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RALPH ERSKINE

A Legal Strain of Doctrine
An Exhortation to All Apart from Christ
Arminian Doctrine Exposed
The Word of Salvation Sent to Sinners
Gospel Humiliation (.pdf)
Arminian Doctrine Exposed
Faith & Sense
How a Sinner Becomes a Believer
Man's Fall in Adam & The Remedy in Christ
Smoking Spiritualized in Two Parts
The Difference Between Justification & Sanctification
The Joyful Sound of The Gospel
What it Means to be "Dead to the Law"
The Father's Love to the Son, and Depositing All Things into His Hand
Objections Against Receiving Christ Answered
The Difference Between Legal and Gospel Mortification
The Humble Soul the Particular Favourite of Heaven
he Spiritual Feelings of Believers and Hypocrites Compared
Unbelievers Joy in the World
What Sinners Should Plead from God

JOHN GILL

Of Efficacious Grace
Of Effectual Calling
Of Regeneration
Of Conversion
The Doctrine of Predestination
The Doctrine of the Saints Final Perseverance
The Cause of God and Truth

WILLIAM GURNAL

The Christian In Complete Armor (78 MB .pdf) & HTML Version

WILLIAM GUTHRIE

The Christian's Great Interest
More by Guthrie

A.A. HODGE

Creeds & Confessions
Pelagianism, Semi-Pelagianism & Augustinianism
Regeneration
Sanctification
Sola Scriptura
The Person of Christ
The Inspiration of The Bible
A Commentary on The Westminster Confession of Faith
A Short History of Creeds and Confessions
Creeds & Confessions
Dogmatic Christianity, the Essential Ground of Practical Christianity
Justification (4 Part Essay)
God's Covenants With Man--The Church
GOD -- His Nature And Relation To The Universe
Assurance & Humility
Sabbath, The Day Changed: The Sabbath Preserved
The Order of Salvation
Inability
Regeneration
The Presence of Christ at the Lord's Supper
The Rule of Faith and Practice
Outlines of Theology (online book)

CHARLES HODGE

A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians
The Great Revival of Religion
What is Presbyterianism?
The Plan of Salvation
Christianity Without Christ

Doctrine & Remarks: The Theology of Romans
Finney's Lecture's on Theology
For Whom Did Christ Die?
Ground of Faith in The Scriptures
Is The Church of Rome A Part of the Visible Church?
Romans 5:1-11
Romans 5:12-21
The Theology of the Intellect & That of the Feelings
Regeneration Necessary to Perceive the Beauty and Excellency of Divine Things
The Covenant of Grace

ABRAHAM KUYPER

Abraham Kuyper: A Christian Worldview
Lectures on Calvinism
Holy Raiment of One's Own Weaving
Justification
Justification from Eternity
Sanctification
Sanctification & Justification
The Antithesis Between Symbolism & Revelation
The Pietist & the Perfectionist
The Work of the Holy Spirit

HUGH LATIMER

Thou Canst Make Me Clean

MARTIN LUTHER

A Treatise against Antinomians
Bondage of the Will (Book)
Choice Quotes by Martin Luther from the Bondage of the Will
Christ's Holy Sufferings
Christian Righteousness
Christ Our Great High Priest
Christ's Holy Sufferings
Concerning Christian Liberty
Enemies of The Cross of Christ
The Law & the Gospel
Luther's Ninety-five Theses
Martin Luther's Account of His Own Conversion
No Compromise Between The Church and Rome
On Faith & Coming to Christ
Preface to Romans
Table Talk (.pdf book)
The Importance of Justification by Faith
The Pharisee & The Publican
The Twofold Use of the Law & Gospel: Letter & Spirit
Threefold Righteousness
Luther's Account of His Own Conversion
The Importance of Law & Gospel
More Luther @monergism.com

J. GRESHAM MACHEN

Christianity & Culture
Christianity & Liberalism (.pdf book)
The Active Obedience of Christ
God the Creator
History & Faith
Is Mankind Lost in Sin?
Jesus & Paul
Liberalism or Christianity?  
New Testament Greek: A Brief Introduction
Sin's Wages and God's Gift
The Atonement
The Fear of God
The Fall of Man
The Importance of Christian Scholarship (.pdf)
The Life of Christ
The Minister & His Greek Testament
The Origin of Paul's Religion
The Proposed Department of Education
The Resurrection of Christ
The Triune God
The Witness of Paul
What Is Christianity?

PHILIP MELANCHTHON

The Augsburg Confession (1530):
Theses on Law, Gospel & Faith

JOHN OWEN

Overcoming Sin and Temptation (.pdf)
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
Christologia (.pdf)
Of Temptation
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded
The Person & Satisfaction of Christ

The Entire Works of John Owen
More Owen Resources

A.W. PINK

Profiting From the Word
Studies on Saving Faith
Gleanings in the Godhead
The Sovereignty of God
Eternal Security
Why Four Gospels?
Studies in the Atonement
Regeneration or the New Birth
The Doctrine of Sanctification
The Doctrine of Election
Comfort for Christians
The Doctrine of Justification
The Doctrine of Man's Impotence

Pink's Archive (His Entire Library)

J.C. RYLE

George Whitefield & His Ministry
Holiness
(.pdf)
Practical Religion
The Duties of Christian Parents
Regeneration
Election
Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Matthew
Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Mark
Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Luke (Volume 1)
Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Luke (Volume 2)
Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of John

THOMAS READE

Spiritual Exercises of the Heart
The Believer's Companion in Solitude
Christian Experience, as Displayed in the Life and Writings of Paul

SAMUEL RUTHERFORD

Letters of Samuel Rutherford (.pdf)
The Covenant of Life Opened
The Deliverance of the Kirk of God
Samuel Rutherford and some of his Correspondents (336K)
14 Communion Sermons
Soul Trouble
Sorrow for Sin
Preparations Before Conversion
The Will of God and the Gospel Offer
The Weeping Mary at the Sepulcre

RICHARD SIBBES

The Bruised Reed (classic book)
Divine Meditations
Christ our Surety
I am my Beloved's
Christ's Public Triumph
Grace Shall Reign
Christ Is Best
Through Conflict to Victory
A Description of Christ
A Spiritual Jubilee
The Works of Richard Sibbes

C.H. SPURGEON

All of Grace
Human Inability
A Defense of Calvinism
Christ's Prayer for His People
Elijah's Appeal to the Undecided
Encouragement for the Depressed!
Free Will - A Slave
High Doctrine
Jacob & Esau
On Regeneration
Particular Redemption
Salvation is of the Lord
Soveriegn Grace and Man's Responsibility
The Day of Atonement
The Death of Christ
The Sin-Bearer
Till He Come!
Morning & Evening (.pdf)

AUGUSTUS TOPLADY

A Caveat Against Unsound Doctrines
Arminianism: The Golden Idol of Free Will
Arminianism The Road to Rome
Standing Before God
Application of Christ's Redemption
A Short Essay on Original Sin
Letter to John Wesley
Select Hymns & Poems
Thoughts on The Assurance of Faith
Controversy between Augustus Toplady and John Wesley

FRANCIS TURRETIN

Creationism or Traducianism?
Effectual Calling
Hell

Infant Baptism
Justification: Forensic or Moral?

21 Questions on The Doctrine of Scripture (.pdf)
Predestination
Proof That the Church is Often Obscured
Sanctification
Should Predestination be Publicly Taught & Preached?
The Decrees of God
The Marks of a True Church

The Necessity of the Atonement
The Object of Predestination
The Salaries of Ministers

The Will of God
A Biographical Sketch by James R. Wilson

ZACHARIUS URSINUS

Christian Perfectionism?
In What Does The Law Differ From The Gospel?
The Covenant
The Doctrine of Justification
What Is The Gospel?
What Is Catechism?

JUAN de VALDES

What Happens When I Doubt?

GEERHARDUS VOS

Brotherly Love
Christian Faith & Truthfulness of Bible History

Covenant
Lake of Fire
Salvation
Priesthood of Christ Hebrews
The Doctrine Covenant in Reformed Theology
The Eschatology of the New Testament
The Idea of Biblical Theology
The Kingdom of God & The Church
The Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuchal Codes
The Nature and Aims of Biblical Theology
Sacrificial Idea in Paul’s Concept of Atonement
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B. B. WARFIELD

It Says, Scripture Says, God Says
Calvinism
A Brief and Untechnical Statement of the Reformed Faith
Introductory Essay on Augustin and the Pelagian Controversy
The Terminology of Love in the New Testament
The Making of the Westminster Confession
The Westminster Assembly and Its Work
The Spirit of God in the Old Testament
Annihilationism
Regeneration
Predestination
The Millennium and the Apocalypse
Redeemer and Redemption
The Person of Christ
The Leading of the Spirit
Predestination in the Reformed Confessions
Calvin's Doctrine of God
Calvin and the Bible (.pdf)
Christ Our Sacrifice
The Christ that Paul Preached
The Ninety-Five Theses in Their Theological Significance
God-Inspired Scripture
The Real Problem of Inspiration
On the Antiquity and the Unity of the Human Race
The Biblical Idea of Revelation
Christianity and Revelation
The Divine & Human in the Bible (.pdf)
The Formation of the New Testament Canon
God Inspired Scripture
Christianity and our Times
Christianity and the Truth
Entire Sanctification
Sanctification
The Plan of Salvation
Heresy & Concession
The Dogmatic Spirit
Justification by Faith, Out of Date?
The Foundations of the Sabbath in the Word of God
Warfield on Four-Point Calvinism
Jonathan Edwards & The New England Theology
The End of the Incarnation
Apologetics
God
Is God's Grace Suspended Until We Act?
The Religious Life of Theological Students
Calvin's Doctrine of the Trinity
Jesus' Mission, According to His Own Testimony
The Oracles of God
Calvin's Doctrine of the Creation
The Divine Messiah In The Old Testament
Faith and Life: 'Conferences' in the Oratory of Princeton Seminary
The Children in the Hands of the Arminians
The Theology of John Calvin
The Inspiration of the Bible
Christian Supernaturalism
Imitating the Incarnation (.pdf)

THOMAS WATSON

A Body of Divinity (classic book)
Man's Chief End is to Glorify God
Mystic Union Between Christ and the Saints
The Lord's Prayer
The Ten Commandments
One Thing Necessary
The Happiness of Drawing near to God Many More Resources from Thomas Watson

WESTMINSTER SHORTER CATECHISM PROJECT

Harmony of Expositions by John Flavel, Thomas Watson, Thomas Boston, James Fisher, and John Whitecross, and others.

GEORGE WHITEFIELD

59 Sermons of George Whitefield (.pdf)
The Potter and the Clay
Regeneration

HERMAN WITSIUS

Summary of "The Economy of the Covenants
The Economy of the Covenants Between God and Man (Classic Book)
Intro on Covenant Theology by J. I. Packer

JEROME ZANCHI (1516-1590)

Absolute Predestination
Confession of the Christian Religion
The October Treatises
On the Church
Certain Praelections of that worthy defender of the Christian Faith
Rreprobation
Observations on the Divine Attributes

Reformation Creeds & Catechisms

Creeds of Christendom
The Canons of the Council of Orange 529 AD
The Augsburg Confession (1530)
Martin Luther's Small Catechism (1529)
The Book of Concord
The Smalcald Articles of Martin Luther (1537)
Calvin's Consensus Tigurinus
Calvin's French Confession
The Genevan Catechism (1545)
The Genevan Catechism (1545)
The Belgic Confession (1561)
The Heidelberg Catechism (1563)
The Second Helvetic Confession (1561 / 1566)
The Canons of the Synod of Dort (1619)
Westminster Confession (1647)
Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647)

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