Christianity - Commentary
The Quaker's Catechism
I suppose thou wilt marvel that I trouble myself with so wild a generation as the people called Quakers are or that I trouble thee with a fe…
Ninety-nine Homilies of St. Thomas Aquinas
The Homilies of the great "Angelical Doctor" are but outlines, the filling in of which are left to the preacher's own judgment and…
Catena Aurea, St. Matthew
The Catena Aurea (Latin for Golden Chain) presents the commentaries of the greatest theologians (e.g. St. John Chrysostom, St. Jerome, St. A…
The Great Controversy
This great work covers the history of the Christian dispensation, from the fall of Jerusalem, through the Dark Ages and Reformation, to the …
The Soul of Prayer
"The worst sin is prayerlessness," states P.T. Forsyth at the start of this work on prayer but follows this up with the suggestion…
A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System
William Wilberforce was an English politician best known for his leadership in the movement to stop the slave trade. He began his political …
Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians
Galatians is a letter from Paul of Tarsus to a number of Early Christian communities in the Roman province of Galatia in central Anatolia. P…
Sin and Its Consequences
Henry Edward Manning (1808-1892) was an Anglican priest who, in 1851, converted to Roman Catholicism. In 1865, he was appointed archbishop o…
Morals on the Book of Job
Saint Gregory's Commentary on Job, sometimes called "An Extensive Consideration of Moral Questions," was written between 578 and 5…
Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John
As regards the plan of the Epistle, it has been often asserted till lately that it was supposed to be but fragmentary, a series of aphorisms…
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. John
The volume now in the reader's hands completes a work which I began sixteen years ago, entitled "Expository Thoughts on the Gospels.&qu…
The Book of Saint Basil On the Spirit
“The heresy of Arius lowered the dignity of the Holy Ghost as well as that of the Son. He taught that the Three Persons of the Holy Trinity …
2 Timothy
The Second Epistle to Timothy is one of the three Pastoral Epistles, written by Paul, and is part of the canonical New Testament. It may hav…
James
The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The author identifies himself as James (James 1:1), traditionally understood …
The Sermons upon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Ephesians
While many of Calvin's sermons are now lost after they were sold by weight by the library of Geneva, his sermons on Ephesians have been pres…
St. John Chrysostom on 1 Timothy
Timothy was one of the disciples of the Apostle Paul, who had a deep affection for him, writing, "You know the proof of him, that as a …
The Greatest Thing in the World
The spiritual classic The Greatest Thing In the World is a trenchant and tender analysis of Christian love as set forth in the thirteenth ch…
Later Treatises of Saint Athanasius
The times, for which God raised up Saint Athanasius, have, in many respects, a counterpart in our own. There is, now too, earnest, ever-enla…
Quanta Cura
This encyclical letter of Pope Pius IX was promulgated in 1864 and issued with the attached Syllabus of Errors. The document was dispatched…
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Book 3 of Commentary on St John's Gospel covers John 5:35- 6:37, as well as a look at the prophecy contained in Deut. 18:15-19. (Summary by …