We are currently offering Hamilton and Ashworth at a discount (and post free for the UK). In the next few weeks we shall be offering a number of titles at significant discount so please check the site again in the near future.

Phil Roberts

The volumes are as follows: (those in red are currently out of print, the others are available for £15 each, incl. post, which is the same as they were selling for in 1995.)

Vol 1 The Quarrel — Frankfort to Geneva. Cox v Knox

Vol 2 Reform — Geneva Service Book, Calvin, Beza & Co.

Vol 3 Truth — 1557 New Testament. W. Whittingham

Vol 4 Travail — 1557 Psalms for prison. Rediscovered

Vol 5 Vision — Geneva Bible 1560. Detailed account

Vol 6 Hope — Puritans persecuted. L. Tomson revised NT, Beza.

Vol 7 Joy — Bible circulation 1560-1600. Chris. Barker

Vol 8 Faith — Henry Lok Genevan poet, agent

Vol 9 Love — Duchess of Suffolk in exile. Brave lady

Vol 10 Courage — Ld. Willoughby. Protestant hero

Vol 11 Endurance — 1^st printed English Bible 1535. Two volumes on Coverdale

Vol 12 Heaven — 2 long exiles, Bp. of Exeter, puritan.

Vol 13 Index to volumes 1-12 incl. summary of Welsh Bibles

Vol 14 Paint & Print — Zwingli 1500-1530. Bullinger. Two vols. On Swiss reform Zurich & Eng. exiles.

Vol 15 Paint, Print & Exile — …continued

Vol 16 Wyclif’s Wicket — John Wyclif & the Bible

Vol 17 Trodden Thyme — The Lollards, 1490-1520

Vol 18 Tyndale Translator — Birth, Oxford, exile. 2 Vols. Detailed life, in Antwerp to end

Vol 19 Tyndale Martyr — …continued

Vol 20 Bethlehem to Lindisfarne — Jerome to Celtic

Vol 21 Chivalry — Gothic Scriptures, Medieval to Pre-Raphaelites

Vol 22 Towards King James — Earlier Bibles. Bishop’s Bible. 4 vols. On the AV.

Vol 23 Up to Hampton Court — …continued

Vol 24 England’s Word — …continued

Vol 25 ‘Not unto us’ — …continued

Our plan is to reprint the volumes that are out of print over the next year. Every endeavour will be made to match the original bindings but as the series was published over a period of 15-20 years the shade of the cloth used varied. What we can guarantee is that the volumes will match in size and the dustjackets will remain the same. We do not expect to be reprinting all the volumes so as to produce a totally new set as there are significant quantites of some volumes remaining whilst others are down to the last 30 copies. The volumes, though a set, are actually, in most cases, stand-alone volumes covering a particular subject or aspect of the history.

A True Narrative
or

The Rev. Patrick Adair.

xliii + 334pp, h/b in dark blue cloth + d/w

Patrick Adair was born in 1624 in Galloway, Scotland and educated at the universities of St. Andrews and Glasgow. Ordained at Cairncastle, Co. Antrim he later became minister of the Presbyterian congregation in Belfast. He was one of the leaders of Irish Presbyterianism in the seven-teenth century and its first historian. He died in 1694.

This edition includes a  new General Introduction by the Rev Joseph Thompson, PhD, DD.

Joseph Thompson is a Vice President and a former Joint Secretary of the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland. He is Editor of the Society's Bulletin and has written the story of the Society, Times Passing, published in 2007, and several congregational histories.

This title has been produced by Tentmaker Publications for The Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland and can be obtained from them at

The Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, Church House, Fisherwick Place, Belfast, BT1 6DW, N.Ireland, UK. (028) 90322284  Email: librarian@presbyterianhistoryireland.com

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Dr. Lillie is considered by some to have been one of America’s first classical and Biblical scholars. He had an unusual regard for the truth and accuracy of the original text; to him every word was significant. If the name of John Lillie is familiar to Bible students, it will probably be through their acquaintance with the American edition of Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, for Lillie translated the portion on the Thessalonian Epistles. His Lectures of the Epistles of Paul to the Thessalonians was a distinct work and complemented the former. They have never been reprinted, unlike Lange’s Commentary, and consequently have commanded very high prices on the secondhand market.

C H Spurgeon in his Commenting and Commentaries gave both works top rating and quoted Dr Philip Schaff as saying: “Lillie’s Thessalonians will be found to be one of the best executed portions of the American edition of Lange. The translation is remarkably accurate and elegant, and the additions from his own researches, and the best English Commentaries, are carefully selected and valuable.” Spurgeon added that these comments applied equally to the Lectures.

Lillie also produced Lectures on the Epistles of Peter and Schaff wrote in his introduction to them: “…[T]he practice of expository lecturing may be precisely what is needed in our day, to give greater power and efficiency to the pulpit. We urge not so much the consideration that the general adoption of this practice would gather interested hearers around the pulpit, as the consideration that it would minister truly to the spiritual wants of the people of God; and we can scarcely doubt would be followed by a signal revival of the languishing graces and energies of the Church. . . [T]he regular exposition of some book in the Bible, such as we find in these Lectures, would insure due attention to important doctrines which otherwise are apt to be overlooked, and the consideration of relative duties which could not otherwise be introduced into the pulpit without the suspicion of some personal or party aim.”

Here is stimulating and edifying material for the preacher and the serious Bible student.

To order go to Commentaries section. 

Now available.

Samuel Petto was among those ministers ejected from their charges  with the passing of the Act of Uniformity in 1662. He had ministered in various places as a Congregationalist in East Anglia but in 1674 he began his long ministry in Sudbury, Suffolk.
This, his most important work, on the covenant of grace, has long been out of print, the last edition being in 1820. Though he has been little known, the C19th edition was recommended by an impressive list of Scottish minsters and theologians. John Owen in his preface described Samuel Petto as “this worthy author” and commended his work as containing “a sober endeavour for the declaration and true stating of the nature and difference of the two covenants of works and of grace.”

Mark Jones, a doctoral student of the Puritans, has kindly provided a detailed introduction to Petto and his works, setting Petto in the context of his times. This edition has been retypeset with slight revisions to punctuation and spelling but the original sentence structure is retained.

To order go to the Devotional & Theological section.