Autumn Digest is Out!

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Cover Art 3.3 (1200x1600)The autumn edition of “The Digital Puritan” is now available! Pull on your favourite sweater, pour yourself a hot mug of tea, and settle down by the fireplace to enjoy the following articles in this autumn edition:

1. An Exhortation to Peace and Unity – John Bunyan. In which Bunyan teaches us to leave aside bickering and petty divisiveness, and to pursue Christ-honouring unity while putting others ahead of ourselves.

2. Directions to Fearful, Troubled Christians – Richard Baxter. Ten practical instructions for the Christian who is plagued by doubts.

3. The Monster of Sinful Self-Seeking Anatomized – Edmund Calamy. Stand by as Calamy dissects this gruesome and ghastly monster known as self-seeking. First reprinting since it was originally published in 1655.

4. Thankfulness Required in Every Condition – William Bridge. Once again William Bridge shows us how to find light in the darkest dungeon, and return thanks with sincerity to our loving and wise heavenly Father.

5. The Sin and Folly of Depending on Future Time – Jonathan Edwards. In which Edwards pokes holes in many of our justifications to view time as “idle” or something to “pass” while putting off things of more urgent and eternal importance.

6. The Puritans in Verse: “The Reflection” by Edward Taylor. A private meditation on the Saviour’s beauty (Song of Solomon 2:1).

Available now for the Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Apple devices, and in the Google Play store. It is also available in generic ePub format for other devices.

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Pleasantness (1200x1600)The Pleasantness of a Religious Life
by Matthew Henry

Examine the claims of Proverbs 3:17 (“All her ways are ways of pleasantness; all her paths are peace”) with Matthew Henry in The Pleasantness of a Religious Life. An entirely new, painstakingly edited edition awaits in this latest Digital Puritan Press offering.

Rather than being a bleak and burdensome business, Matthew Henry’s clear teaching shows how “religion brings both pleasure with it, and profit after it,” and argues that the difficulties met with on the journey of faith are not worthy of being compared to the joyful recompense which our God and King rewards us with along the way and at our final resting place in his kingdom. Thus “the practice of serious godliness not only tends to our happiness in the next life, but is also greatly conducive to our comfort in this life,” for we learn that, “the more we live with an eye to Christ and another world, the more comfort we are likely to have in our hearts.”

Pastor Henry also unmasks the counterfeit pleasures this world attempts to use to cheat us out of pleasures that are both satisfying indeed and eternally durable—for the world’s sensual pleasures are bland to those who have tasted the sweetness of the Lord, and felt the lightness and rest which is to be found in his yoke.

The Pleasantness of a Religious Life was Matthew Henry’s final literary work; it was in the process of being printed when he died in 1714.

Available now for Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Apple (iBooks), and Android (Google Play). Also available in e-Pub format (most other e-readers).

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