Classic Articles on Reformed Theology

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 
• more…

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)
• More essays…

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
• more…

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)
• More Thomas Boston Resources…

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)
• more…

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
• More …

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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