In addition to The Gospel Revealed to Job by Hulbert (due out in mid-March) and John Fawcett’s  Exposition of the Acts. 3 vols (Spurgeon says: “A fine series of expository discourses. Sometimes we differ.”), we are currently considering the following:

1. E.W. Hengstenberg on Psalms

2. E.W. Hengstenbrg, The Revelation expounded for those who search the Scriptures.  Translated by Patrick Fairbairn, D.D. 2 vols., 8vo. Edinb., 1851-52. S. 14/6. (Spurgeon says: “Highly esteemed by the best judges”).

3. R Breckinridge, The Kingdom of God considered (2 vol.)  

4. James Hamilton, Sermons and Discourses.  (Receives the highest marks from Spurgeon on his work on Moses and his commentary on Ecclesiastes).

5. R S Candlish, Reason and Revelation 

6. Jean Daille, Exposition of Philippians & Exposition of Colossians.  Translated by Rev. James Sherman. Imp. 8vo. Lond., 1841. (Spurgeon: “Very sweet and evangelical: after the French manner”).

7. Robert Robinson on History of Baptism

8. Sermons of James Ussher

We are checking if others are planning these and also assessing interest. Please let us know if you would be interested in any of these titles.

A True Narrative
or The Rise and Progress
of the
Presbyterian Church in Ireland
1623–1670

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

For those who have had trouble ordering since the website update, this problem has been rectified. Sorry for your trouble.

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452pp Buckram cloth hardback with d/w, £18.95

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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.

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254pp Buckram cloth hardback with d/w, £13.95

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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.

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