THE SEVEN WORDS ON THE CROSS
By Robert Bellarmine
This Catholic work is arranged in two books, with 12 chapters in the first part, and 24 in the second. Bellarmine examines the phrases and then the individual words in Christ’s sayings.
Bellarmine was Catholic.
by Ulysses S. Bartz, A.M. (1900)
This is a brief study on immortality, death, the resurrection, the Second Coming, the intermediate state, and hell.
by John Bunyan
This is a single chapter sermon by Bunyan (Anglican). The matter of his sermon is the divine condemn on professors of the faith that have no fruit. He uses Christ’s parable of cursing the fig tree, and concludes that such professors without fruit in their life are under God’s condemnation.
An Essay on the Warrant, Nature and Duties of the Office of the Ruling Elder in the Presbyterian Church
by Samuel Miller, D.D.
Professor of Ecclesiastical History and church Government in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N.J.
In this work (15 chapters) by Miller (Presbyterian-Reformed), he examines the ministry of ruling elder first looking at the testimony of the OT church, the evidence in the NT, the testimony of the church fathers, of the witnesses in the dark ages, of the reformers and those since their time. He then looks at their need in the church, the nature nd duties of such an office, their distinction with deacons, their qualification for office, their election, their ordination, their resignation, and the conducting of discipline on them on the presbyterian plan.
by Arthur James Balfour
This book is an older type doctrines book dealing more with Naturalism, Reason, and other bases for belief, and not really dealing directly with doctrinal topics (like salvation, angels, God, etc). Continue reading
