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Special - Works of James Hamilton (6 vols)
Brown cloth h/b, 523 + 508 + 516 + 524 + 551 + 532pp, d/w.

Volume 3 The Preacher; Volume 5 Moses The Man of God; and Volume 6 Sermons and Lectures are available separately at £19.95. Email sales@tentmaker.org.uk to order.

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James Hamilton was born at Paisley in 1814. Having studied at universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, he became assistant to Robert Candlish at St. George's, Edinburgh, in 1838. In 1839 he took charge of the parish of Abernyte in 1839, and early in 1841 removed to Roxburgh Church, Edinburgh. In July, 1841, he became pastor of the National Scotch Church, Regent Square, London, and remained pastor of this congregation till his death in 1867. In 1849 he became editor of the Presbyterian Messenger, and in 1864 editor of Evangelical Christendom, the organ of the Evangelical Alliance. He was an incessant literary worker and the author of some of the most widely circulated books of his day.

Volume I
THE PREACHER

Life in Earnest: Lectures on Christian Activity and Ardour
The Mount of Olives and other lectures on prayer
A Morning beside the Lake of Galilee
The Happy Home

Volume II
THE LIGHT TO THE PATH

The Light to the Path
Emblems from Eden
The Prodigal Son
The Church in the House
The Dew of Hermon or True Christian Unity
Thankfulness

Volume III
THE ROYAL PREACHER

"We have had a great treat in reading this prose poem. It is a charming production." C H Spurgeon

The Royal Preacher: Lectures on Ecclesiastes
Lessons from the Great Biography:
Early Incidents
Miracles
Discources
Interviews
Final Glimpses

Volume IV
LECTURES AND ADDRESSES

Includes:
Simeon and his Predecessors
Thomas Chalmers, DD
Bartholomew Day, 1662
Notes on the Book of Job
The Proverbs of Solomon
Early Years of Erasmus
Erasmus in England

Volume V
MOSES THE MAN OF GOD

"Beautiful as a poem, like everything' which fell front Dr. Hamilton's pen. It would be impossible to study it without profit." C H Spurgeon

Moses The Man of God
The Golden Series: Lectures on 2 Peter 1
Philosophy and Christianity
The Ethics of the Gospel: Lectures on Phil. iv. 8

Volume VI
SERMONS AND LECTURES

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The Knowledge of God Subjectively Considered

Robert J. Breckinridge (1800-1871).

697pp +xvi. Red cloth with d/w. This is the second volume of his systematic theology.

“Dr. Breckinridge’s book will take its place by the side of the works of the greatest masters, and none will feel that they are dishonoured by the company of the newcomer. It has peculiar merits. It is strictly an original work—the product of the author’s own thoughts, the offspring of his own mind. He has studied and digested much form the labours of others, but has borrowed nothing…. The plan, too, adapts it to general use. The humblest Christian can read it with almost as much profit as the minister. It is pure, unmixed Gospel, presented in a form at once suited to edify and instruct…. The author’s soul is always on fire. He knows God only to love Him, and he seems to feel that he has taught nothing until he has kindled the same flame in the minds of his pupils.” Review of the first part by James Henley Thornwell.

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Breckinridge's Scotch-Irish ancestry in America shows a history of political, military and ecclesiastical service from the earliest decades of the eighteenth century. His father served as Senator and then Attorney General under Jefferson prior to his premature death when Robert was just six years old. Robert himself entered public service in the House of the Kentucky Legislature in 1825. Following personal difficulties that led to his conversion he continued his political career, though using his position to argue for issues based on his Christian commitment. His particular concerns were the wrongfulness of enslaving Africans and the transportation of mail on the Sabbath.

In the fall of 1831 he hosted a 'woods meeting' on the 20,000 acre farm he had inherited from his father and it was as a result of these meetings he felt a call to the ministry. He trained at Princeton under Samuel Miller, and then was ordained and installed at the Second Church of Baltimore in 1832, where he served for twelve years. It was during Robert’s pastoral years in Baltimore that the growing differences between the Old and New School perspectives led in 1837 to a division of the Presbyterian Church. He became moderator of the General Assembly for the Old School in 1841.

After the death of his first wife in 1844, he returned to Kentucky and in 1847 he became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Lexington, Kentucky, was awarded the LL.D by Washington and Jefferson College, remarried, and also was appointed superintendent of public instruction for the state of Kentucky. It was the latter position in which Breckinridge excelled because during his six years of service he saw school attendance grow from 20,000 to over 200,000. Robert Breckinridge is still considered an important figure in the development and growth of the Kentucky public educational system.

His final move was in 1853 to become the first Professor of Exegetic, Didactic and Polemic Theology in the new Presbyterian seminary at Danville, Kentucky, continuing until his retirement in 1869. He died in Danville on December 27, 1871 after an extended illness.

Breckinridge's life and work was tumultuous and colourful. He was a vocal opponent of slavery in Kentucky; became a leader of the Old School in its ejection of the New School; improved the quality and quantity of Kentucky education; and worked to bring ministerial education to the rough Kentucky frontier at Danville Seminary.

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Sermons in Times of Persecution in Scotland

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Meditations

By Jim Waring, paperback

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This little anthology is a collection of short talks shared at the Table over a recent period of time. …The contents, by their abbreviated nature, lay no claim to an exhaustive study, and any serious analysis might possibly disclose that they are somewhat of a devotional commentary on the various experiences of a long life, many of which I believe are common to most. I consider the essence of the Table to be pivotal in our worship and I trust that this motivation will be seen in what I have written.

- from the Introduction

Jim and I are members of the same local church and I am always grateful when Jim takes the table. His messages are characterised by real understanding of the Lord’s supper, genuine usefulness for those of us gathered and a reverent joy which sets it all alight.

- Graham Cheesman, Principal, Belfast Bible College.

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The Knowledge of God Objectively Considered

Robert J. Breckinridge (1800-1871).

530pp +xvi. Red cloth with d/w. This is the first volume of his systematic theology.

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A View of Saving Faith

John Colquhoun

h/b, 359pp, blue cloth. Published by Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland

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Shortly after John Colquhoun’s conversion it was recommended to him that he obtain a copy of Thomas Boston’s Fourfold State as being most suitable to promote his religious improvement. He was so eager to have it that he walked to Glasgow, a return journey of fifty miles, and came back rejoicing with his valuable treasure. Boston's treatise had a moulding influence on his early Christian life and Boston's Works would later permeate his ministry and writings. Colquhoun would become one of the foremost exponents of ‘Marrow Theology’ with its universal call and offer of the Gospel to sinners.

‘For nearly fifty Dr Colquhoun was minister of the New Kirk, Leith; and to his solid and systematic expositions of Scripture hearers resorted not only from the city of Edinburgh, but from places as remote as Dalkeith and Newbattle. Besides Boston and the Erskines, his theological models were Witsius and Maestricht, Voetius and Cloppenburg, and his own mind had all the system and precision of a Dutch Divine. No modern better merited the title often bestowed on the Puritans “a painful preacher of the holy Gospel”… Much as they valued his methodical arrangement and exhaustive copiousness, the best of his hearers prized still more his affectionate applications of truth, and the singular judgment with which he handled questions of conscience. Some of them still remember with what pathos he used to pray that the Most High “would revive the credit of the covenanted work of reformation, that He would repair the carved work of the sanctuary, which had been broken down, and build up the breaches of Zion, which are wide as the sea”; and they can tell how, in concluding an exposition of the Psalms which had lasted seventeen years he remarked, “I have much reason to bless the Lord that I have been never, like many of my brethren, been so far left to myself as to use in the public worship of God hymns of human composition”.’

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John Colquhoun was born in Luss in Dunbartonshire on New Year's Day 1748. He was the son of a small farmer. As a boy he herded sheep and plied the shuttle of a handloom weaver. It was through the influence of his mother's pious instructions, whilst still a child, that he received his first religious impressions. His early education was in school at Muirland run by the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge. Besides instructing him in reading, writing and arithmetic, his teacher endeavoured to communicate religious knowledge to his scholars and it was to this teacher's explanation of the question in the Westminster Assembly's Shorter Catechism, 'What is effectual calling?' that Colquhoun traced his conversion.

On feeling led to devote himself to the Gospel ministry he entered Glasgow University, at the age of twenty, where he pursued his studies for the next ten years. This was followed by a session at the University of Edinburgh after which he was licensed as a preacher of the Gospel by the Glasgow Presbytery of the Church of Scotland in August 1780. He was then called to the New Church in South Leith and was ordained to that pastoral charge on 22 March 1781. There he exercised a very effective evangelical ministry for over forty six years until his health failed a year before his death on 27 November 1827. Colquhoun was buried in the churchyard of South Leith, his funeral sermon being preached by Dr. Thomas Snell Jones the Minister of Lady Glenorchy's Chapel in Edinburgh.

In the years when unbelieving moderatism controlled much of the Church Of Scotland, ministries like those of Colquhoun, and his contemporaries John Love of Glasgow and John Macdonald of Ferintosh, were very highly valued.

The writer of a brief memoir of Colquhoun speaks of his preaching in these terms, 'In his discourses, his chief aim was to exalt the Saviour, by setting forth the riches of his free and distinguishing grace, and lay the sinner low in the dust, by showing him his utter helplessness and guilt. The love of Christ glowing in his own breast, out of the abundance of his heart he warmly commended the same love to sinful men. The very name of the Saviour...was precious to him, and he seldom mentioned it without prefixing some epithet, indicating the deep sense of gratitude with which it filled him; often speaking of him as “the infinitely amiable” and “lovely redeemer” and “the compassionate Saviour of sinners;” and when referring to his righteousness, styling it, “His infinitely meritorious, his immaculate, matchless, consummate, his transcendently glorious, or divinely excellent righteousness” '.

John Colquhoun's writings include the following titles: A Treatise on Spiritual Comfort (1813); On the Law and the Gospel (1815); On the Covenant of Grace (1818); A Catechism for the Instruction of Young Communicants (1821); On the Covenant of Works (1822); A view of Saving Faith from the Sacred Records (1824); A Collection of the Promises of the Gospel, arranged under their proper heads, with Reflections and Exhortations deduced from them (1826); A view of Evangelical Repentance from the Sacred Records (1826); and a small posthumous volume of Sermons, chiefly on Doctrinal Subjects (1836).

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Sermons of George Whitefield (2 vols)
cloth bound h/b, 504 + 462pp, d/w. Edited and with an introduction by Lee Gatiss. Published by the Reformed Evangelical Anglican Library.
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The publishers have done Anglican Evangelicals (and many others) a great service in bringing these wonderful sermons by George Whitefield back into easily accessible form. Lee Gatiss's excellent and comprehensive Introduction gives a clear way in to grasping the salient features of Whitefield’s life and convictions, and of his relationship to classic Protestant Anglicanism. All those who want urgently to reconnect the contemporary Church of England with its evangelical heritage will be nourished and encouraged by this volume, and no doubt by subsequent volumes in this Series.
Christopher Ash, Director of the Cornhill Training Course, London

In a time of much confusion about what counts as true Anglican theology, the Reformed Evangelical Anglican Library is a great gift, both to remind, to resource and, perhaps too, to rebuke today’s Anglicans. It is an especial joy to commend this edition of Whitefield’s sermons, which provides such a readable and accessible text of Whitefield. May it spur us on in our time to proclaim Jesus Christ as passionately as Whitefield did, and with a similar biblical faith-fulness.
Dr. Michael Ovey, Principal of Oak Hill Theological College, London

George Whitefield is surely the greatest of all British preachers. These transcriptions of some of Whitefield’s sermons inevitably conceal much of his genius, but they do convey a sense of the power, simplicity and vivid impact of his message which God used to such remarkable effect in the 18th Century. This collection and Lee Gatiss’ excellent introduction will inspire today’s preachers and prompt us to follow the example of this great and godly man.
Vaughan Roberts, Rector of St. Ebbe’s, Oxford and President of the Proclamation Trust.

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