Test All Things
Earnestly Contending For The Faith Which Was Once Delivered Unto The Saints
It was during the earlier years of Christmas Evans’s ministry in Anglesey (1794-1795) that the churches were shaken by what was known as the Sandemanian controversy – especially the Cavinistic Baptist...
Today we hear little of this but in former days it was quite common. The matter was not treated lightly, but only after solemn prayer and exercise (and perhaps fasting) was...
“Can these bones live?” (Ezekiel 37:3) This was an impossible situation which met Ezekiel’s eye. A valley filled with bones, and the bones were “very dry,” destitute of life. And Ezekiel...
“And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city,...
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: and thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy...
Children and young people often ask: “What will happen at the end of the world?” The Bible is very clear. One day the world will end; it will be burned up...
“Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.” Now...
Most children’s books on the New Testament are full of pictures of the Lord Jesus. Many people cannot see any wrong in this. Why do we not agree? First: We are...
A young man named George Gorton, who lived at Stow-on-the-Wold, had been in great spiritual distress. Happening to come across William Gadsby’s The Perfect Law of Liberty, under God’s blessing he...
Christian Marriage and Divorce – By Leslie S.B. Hyde; Paperback; 45 pages; Published by Gospel Standard Trust Publications. ——————- The emphasis in Christian Marriage and Divorce is on the authority of...
The Things Most Surely Believed Among Us (Gadsby’s Catechism), by William Gadsby; Pamphlet; 24 pages; Published by The Gospel Standard Trust Publications. ———————— This is “Gadsby’s catechism,” published in his early...
Free Grace, Free Will and the Free Offer, by J.H. Gosden; Pamphlet; 35 pages; Published by the Huntingtonian Press. ———————— Free grace, free will and the free offer examined in the...
The Autobiography of D. E. Bradford; Hardback; 108 pages; ———————— This is a beautifully produced book with a lovely colour photograph on the front of Matfield Chapel, the scene of the...
Morning Readings – By James Bourne; Hardback; 336 pages; Published by Gospel Standard Trust Publications. ———————— The little group of people who gathered round the Gilpins and Sukey Harley in Pulverbach...
Justification: Sinners Righteous in Christ, by John Gill. Paperback; 95 pages; Published by Gospel Standard Trust Publications. ———————— For years we have thought that booklets of this kind should be published....
Memoir and Sermons of James Bourne; Hardback; 220 pages; Published by and obtainable from The Huntingtonian Press, 72A Upper Northam Road, Hedge End, Southampton, Hants. SO30 4EB. —————————— James Bourne (1773-1854)...
A Goodly Heritage – By J.A. Watts and G.D. Buss; Hardback; 80 pages. Published by Gospel Standard Trust Publications. —————————— For many years our friend and oldest deacon, Mr. John Watts,...
Great is Thy Faithfulness: 200 years of God’s Goodness at Chippenham; compiled by G.D. Buss; Paperback; 123 pages. Published by The Old Baptist Chapel, Chippenham. —————————————- It is a wonderful thing...
Unanswered Prayer – By G.D. Buss Paperback; 60 pages; Published by Gospel Standard Trust Publications. ——————————— The problem of unanswered prayer is one that has deeply tried God’s people in all...
Contemplations on the God of Israel – By William Huntington; paperback; 183 pages; Published by Gospel Mission Books. ———————————- Lovers of Huntington will warmly welcome this book. Really it is Huntington...
Sermons of a Seceder, by William Tiptaft; Hardback, with lovely coloured front; 222 pages; Published by Gospel Standard Trust Publications. All the extant sermons of William Tiptaft, the friend of J....
Sovereign Grace: Past and Present (Edited by Ian Potts) Large Paperback – 384 pages. ——————– This is a most interesting collection of sermons and writings, and, as the title indicates, “from...
It has been falsely and unkindly stated that the [so-called by the religious world] “High Calvinists” had little or no concern for their fellow-men around them. No one showed deeper concern...
Evangelism and the Reformed Faith, by David J. Engelsma; Pamphlet; 24 pages; This booklet exposes false evangelism and shows what true evangelism is – the preaching of the everlasting gospel. Concerning...
The Life of Arthur W. Pink, by Iain H. Murray; Hardback; 350 pages; Published by The Banner of Truth Trust. This is a much enlarged edition of the 1981 The Life...
On one occasion Christmas Evans employed a man to sell his old horse for him at a horse fair. After a time he called to see what was happening, and found...
The story is told of a minister who treated Christmas Evans most unkindly. Soon afterwards this minister was charged with a crime and taken to court. On the day of the...
“From a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.”(2nd Timothy 3:15) “When I call to...
William Gadsby (1773-1844) By B.A. Ramsbottom (1973) A small tribute to this honoured servant of God on the occasion of the bicentenary of his birth. When God has a work to...
Our little group of churches was especially distinct in the controversy many, many years ago concerning the Person of Christ, the eternal Sonship. Men like good J.C. Philpot, William Gadsby, John...
If William Gadsby honoured the Lord in his life, the Lord honoured him in his triumphant death. He was able to preach on his last Sabbath on earth, thus fulfilling a...
One very sad thing in this dark and degenerate day is that people (even professed believers) are becoming more and more tolerant of the errors of Roman Catholicism. Many errors might...
This is the name which is above every name, the name that is so precious to every sinner saved by grace. The reason for its preciousness is because of its blessed...
Elijah was an eminent servant of the most High God. Suddenly appearing by divine intervention, his opening words were: “The Lord God of Israel, before whom I stand.” And this was...
We live in a world of much rush, haste and bustle. Never has there been a time when people have seemed so busy and yet all this with a shorter working...
“Have you heard what has happened at such-and-such a place?” “Have you heard what so-and-so has done?” Sadly, this kind of talk is too common. He was a wise minister who,...
The complete works of Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) are now on the market, probably for the first time this century. They are strongly recommended by Sword and Trowel as “a magnificent collection...
There is so much evil in the world that we do not normally turn aside to comment on most of the dreadful happenings that take place. However, we feel we must...
I remember when I was quite young spiritually, and I had to take a stand, and it was very hard. I felt the reproach, and I felt it keenly, and the...
“…Be courteous.” (1 Peter 3:8) Christian courtesy is an important subject. It is embraced in the well-known text: “This people have I formed for myself they shall shew forth my praise”...
Under the law it was so easy for a person to become ceremonially unclean. If he touched a dead body, or a grave, or a bone, he became unclean, and was...
We have been grieved by the opposition received to the stand we have sought to take on the sanctity of marriage and that marriage is for life, “till death do us...
December 1991 marked the 300th anniversary of the death of the famous Puritan Richard Baxter. There has been much about this man in contemporary Christian magazines, but not a word of...
The purpose of Christ’s coming into this world was to save His people from their sins. For this it was essential that He must die in the sinner’s place, bearing his...
Divine justice demands a righteousness which the sinner cannot bring. In mercy Christ has wrought out a perfect righteousness, in obedience to the law, with which His Father is satisfied. “When...
Test All Things 