Profiles in Reformed Spirituality Series (10 vols.)

by Horatius Bonar; Michael A. G. Haykin; John Flavel; Jonathan Edwards

and

8 more

Publisher:

Reformation Heritage

, 2006–2012

Overview

The Profiles in Reformed Spirituality series is designed to introduce the spirituality and piety of the Reformed tradition by presenting descriptions of the lives of influential Christians with select passages from their works. This combination of biographical sketches and primary sources gives a taste of each subject’s contribution to the Reformed tradition’s spiritual heritage and direction as to how the reader can find further edification through their works. This series will provide riches where the church is poor and daylight where Christians stumble in the night. Included in Profiles in Reformed Spirituality (10 vols.) are the lives and works of Horatius Bonar, Hercules Collins, Jonathan Edwards, George Swinnock, Alexander Whyte, Lemuel Haynes, Samuel Rutherford, Archibald Alexander, John Bunyan, and John Flavel.

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Key Features

• 10 spiritual profiles highlighting influential theologians
• Informative biographical sketches to accent each theologian’s work
• Hundreds of theological works from the Reformed tradition

Product Details

• Title: Profiles in Reformed Spirituality Series
• Series: Profiles in Reformed Spirituality
• Series Editors: Joel R. Beeke and Michael A. G. Haykin
• Publisher: Reformation Heritage
• Volumes: 10
• Pages: 1,757

Christ is All: The Piety of Horatius Bonar

• Authors: Michael A. G. Haykin and Darrin R. Brooker
• Series: Profiles in Reformed Spirituality
• Series Editors: Joel R. Beeke and Michael A. G. Haykin
• Publisher: Reformation Heritage
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 226

Christ Is All highlights the life and work of the memorable nineteenth-century Scottish minister and poet, Horatius Bonar. Michael A. G. Haykin and Darrin R. Brooker present 65 excerpts from Bonar’s writings that capture his ardent devotion to the glory of Christ. Haykin also includes a valuable biographical introduction on Bonar, providing a glimpse into a life that God used to preach the Gospel and the save souls.

Bonar’s biography provides an enlightening vista of another age, while his selections give us penetrating insight into our own. As Bonar would wish, every word points us to the Christ of all ages and for all ages.

—David P. Murray, professor of Old Testament and practical theology, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

Darrin R. Brooker is the editor and publisher of “The Life and Works of Horatius Bonar CD.” He is a member of Trinity Baptist Church in Burlington, Ontario.

Michael A. G. Haykin is a professor of church history and biblical spirituality and director of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is also a research fellow at the Jonathan Edwards Centre Africa, University of the Free State, South Africa.

Devoted to the Service of the Temple: Piety, Persecution, and Ministry in the Writings of Hercules Collins

• Authors: Michael A. G. Haykin and Steve Weaver
• Series: Profiles in Reformed Spirituality
• Series Editors: Joel R. Beeke and Michael A. G. Haykin
• Publisher: Reformation Heritage
• Publication Date: 2012
• Pages: 139

While largely forgotten in modern times, Hercules Collins was highly influential among the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Calvinistic Baptists of London. Through a biographical sketch and 35 selections from Collin’s writings, Michael A.G. Haykin and Steve Weaver introduce us to the vibrant spirituality of this colossal figure.

Hercules Collins is one of the great figures from our Baptist heritage—a heritage who suffered much for the cause of Christ and left a great legacy for generations that followed. There is something especially compelling about the witness of a man who was oppressed and imprisoned for his faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. The witness of Hercules Collins as pastor, prisoner, and preacher is worthy of the closest attention in our own times. We are indebted to Michael Haykin and Steve Weaver for bringing Hercules Collins to life for a new generation.

—R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Joseph Emerson Brown Professor of Christian Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Steve Weaver is the pastor of West Broadway Baptist Church in Lenoir City, Tennessee.

Michael A. G. Haykin is a professor of church history and biblical spirituality and director of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is also a research fellow at the Jonathan Edwards Centre Africa, University of the Free State, South Africa.

A Sweet Flame: Piety in the Letters of Jonathan Edwards

• Author: Michael A. G. Haykin
• Series: Profiles in Reformed Spirituality
• Series Editors: Joel R. Beeke and Michael A. G. Haykin
• Publisher: Reformation Heritage
• Publication Date: 2012
• Pages: 169

A Sweet Flame introduces readers to the piety of Jonathan Edwards. Dr. Haykin’s biographical sketch of Edwards captures the importance the New England minister placed on Scripture, family piety, and the church’s reliance on God. The remainder of the book presents 26 selections from various letters written by Edwards, two letters written by family members at his death, and an appendix drawing upon Edwards’ last will and the creator of his estate.

In this collection of letters Michael Haykin offers you a behind-the-scenes look into the life of Jonathan Edwards. As you look, you will see him dealing with sick children, trying to make sense out of the conflict with his Northampton congregation, and reveling in the serendipitous of friendship. Read these letters and you will find Edwards becoming your own ‘most obliging and affectionate friend in the labors of the gospel.

—Stephen J. Nichols, adjunct professor of church history, Reformed Theological Seminary

Jonathan Edwards was not only a brilliant theologian, but also a devoted husband, father, pastor, and friend. Underneath it all, he was a man passionate about living in joyful obedience to God. In this highly recommended collection of letters, skillfully edited and annotated by historian Michael Haykin, Edwards’s warm-hearted piety shines through on every page, giving us a glimpse into the heart and mind of this servant of God.

—Justin Taylor, vice president of book publishing, associate professor, Crossway

Each fruit of the Spirit is to be found here, expressed in Edwards’ own words, demonstrated in his life. The selections were chosen wisely. We are all indebted to Dr. Haykin for his outstanding service in making these classics available in such an attractive format. Now, to savor them!

—George S. Claghorn, former professor of philosophy, West Chester University

Michael A. G. Haykin is a professor of church history and biblical spirituality and director of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is also a research fellow at the Jonathan Edwards Centre Africa, University of the Free State, South Africa.

Trading and Thriving in Godliness: The Piety of George Swinnock

• Author: J. Stephen Yuille
• Series: Profiles in Reformed Spirituality
• Series Editors: Joel R. Beeke and Michael A. G. Haykin
• Publisher: Reformation Heritage
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 213

George Swinnock was a gifted English Puritan, known for his vivid illustrations of biblical truth. In Trading and Thriving in Godliness, J. Stephen Yuille highlights Swinnock’s conviction that godliness is the primary employment of every Christian. Yuille’s introductory essay analyzes the influences on, groundwork for, and expressions of piety in Swinnock’s life and thought. The book also contains fifty selections from Swinnock’s writings, exemplifying his teaching on the foundation, door, value, pursuit, nature, means, and motives to godliness.

Swinnock gives us the essence of Puritanism and J. Stephen Yuille gives us the essence of Swinnock. Here is doctrine and life, vision and devotion, the poetry and the passion of typical Puritan preaching. A first-rate taster of what is available in Swinnock's Works.

—Peter Lewis, author

Michael A. G. Haykin is a professor of church history and biblical spirituality and director of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is also a research fellow at the Jonathan Edwards Centre Africa, University of the Free State, South Africa.

A Consuming Fire: The Piety of Alexander Whyte

• Author: Michael A. G. Haykin
• Series: Profiles in Reformed Spirituality
• Series Editors: Joel R. Beeke and Michael A. G. Haykin
• Publisher: Reformation Heritage
• Publication Date: 2013
• Pages: 121

In A Consuming Fire, Michael A. G. Haykin opens a window to the life and work of Alexander Whyte. Haykin’s biographical essay introduces the reader to Whyte and the high premium he placed on vibrant Christian living. The remainder of the book presents 28 selections from various written works by Whyte that display his burning zeal for the devoted life. For those who are not familiar with Whyte but interested in acquainting themselves with him and the spirituality of the Reformed tradition, this book will make a reliable introduction.

Michael Haykin’s A Consuming Fire is a splendid ‘warts and all’ cameo portrait of the remarkable Dr. Alexander Whyte. The moving story of how an illegitimate child became a pulpit prince is told here with the skill of a historian and the sensitivity of a fellow Christian. The wonderful selection of passages from Whyte’s works is itself worth the price of the book!

—Sinclair B. Ferguson, professor, Redeemer Seminary

Michael A. G. Haykin is a professor of church history and biblical spirituality and director of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is also a research fellow at the Jonathan Edwards Centre Africa, University of the Free State, South Africa.

May We Meet in the Heavenly World: The Piety of Lemuel Haynes

• Author: Thabiti M. Anyabwile
• Series: Profiles in Reformed Spirituality
• Series Editors: Joel R. Beeke and Michael A. G. Haykin
• Publisher: Reformation Heritage
• Publication Date: 2009
• Pages: 128

Through both the biographical essay and the selections from Lemuel Haynes’s writings, this text reveals an Edwardsian sense of spirituality that constantly lived in view of eternity. Well acquainted with difficulties, suffering, and death, Haynes’ ministry was infused with the unfailing hope of heaven.

I rejoice to know that God has given me friends and heroes like Lemuel Haynes and Thabiti Anyabwile. I love them both. I have learned much from them. In reading this volume, I am sure you will too.

—Anthony Carter, author of On Being Black and Reformed

This well-chosen selection from Lemuel Haynes’ writings represents a significant part of the earliest African-American engagements with the Reformed theological tradition. In that tradition Haynes and his black contemporaries, both American and British, found a language of justice and inspiration that allowed them to criticize slavery and racial prejudice, and to offer a Christian vision of a free society.

—John Saillant, author of Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753–1833

Thabiti M. Anyabwile is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands.

“The King in His Beauty”: The Piety of Samuel Rutherford

• Author: Matthew Vogan
• Series: Profiles in Reformed Spirituality
• Series Editors: Joel R. Beeke and Michael A. G. Haykin
• Publisher: Reformation Heritage
• Publication Date: 2011
• Pages: 200

The King in His Beauty introduces readers to the life and writings of Samuel Rutherford. Matthew Vogan provides a biographical introduction that traces the significant events of this Scottish theologian’s life and guides readers through his writings, focusing on his distinctive insight into Christian experience. In 43 excerpts drawn from Rutherford’s letters, major treatises, catechism, and sermons, readers will discover the depth of Rutherford’s compassion, piety, and theological wisdom, all rooted in his unwavering love for Christ.

Samuel Rutherford is the most significant devotional writer in the British Reformed tradition, and in Matthew Vogan he has found the ideal editor. This book gathers together the most important passages in Rutherford’s writing, to preserve for us his unique appreciation of the glories of Immanuel’s land.

—Crawford Gribben, senior lecturer, Trinity College Dublin

Ever heard a foreign language and thought, ‘That’s beautiful. I’d love to understand that, or even speak like that’? You may have a similar sensation as you read Samuel Rutherford’s moving descriptions of Jesus Christ and his loving interactions with needy sinners. While the heavenly language and passionate experiences may initially seem strange to our shallow minds and cold hearts, Christians will find themselves enraptured and enticed to a deeper, higher, and wider knowledge and experience of Jesus Christ as they read these beautiful words.

—David P. Murray, professor of Old Testament and practical theology, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

Matthew Vogan is a ruling elder in the Inverness congregation of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland and author of various articles for a number of periodicals. He works in local government as a project manager.

“A Scribe Well-Trained”: Archibald Alexander and the Life of Piety

• Author: James M. Garretson
• Series: Profiles in Reformed Spirituality
• Series Editors: Joel R. Beeke and Michael A. G. Haykin
• Publisher: Reformation Heritage
• Publication Date: 2011
• Pages: 208

A Scribe Well-Trained acquaints us with the life and writings of Princeton Theological Seminary’s founding professor, Archibald Alexander. In the opening biographical sketch, James M. Garretson introduces us to the things that influenced Alexander and how he sought to cultivate godliness in himself, the men he trained, and people to whom he ministered. Garretson reinforces this through 56 short excerpts from across the published writings of Alexander, allowing us to experience firsthand the richness of “Old Princeton” spirituality.

Garretson has favored us with a wonderful study on biblical and Christian piety as displayed through the writings of this early American Presbyterian minister and educator. Those who are interested in an introduction on Christian piety need look no further.

—Robert L. Reymond, former professor, Knox Theological Seminary

James M. Garretson is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and the author of Princeton and Preaching: Archibald Alexander and the Christian Ministry.

“Venture All for God”: Piety in the Writings of John Bunyan

• Authors: Roger Duke and Phil Newton
• Series: Profiles in Reformed Spirituality
• Series Editors: Joel R. Beeke and Michael A. G. Haykin
• Publisher: Reformation Heritage
• Publication Date: 2012
• Pages: 208

Many Christians are familiar with The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan’s famous book written from a prison cell, which portrays the Christian life as one traveling from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. During Bunyan’s life, however, he produced nearly 60 books and tracts. Roger Duke and Phil Newton, with Drew Harris, trace the significant events that shaped Bunyan’s life and thought in a biographical introduction and, in 31 excerpts from a variety of his writings, give us a glimpse of his piety, which flowed from his desire to “venture all for God.”

These excerpts from Bunyan capture both the heart and the thought of this great seventeenth-century preacher and spiritual guide. This is condensed Bunyan . . . Divine sovereignty, divine mercy, effectual grace, human culpability and need—all of these move together seamlessly and in the full context of biblical truth with such charm and artlessness that the reader discovers in each reading the true power of Bunyan. Phil Newton and Roger Duke deserve our thanks for their selections and their contextualizing material in this volume.

—Tom J. Nettles, professor of historical theology, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

All those who, like Timothy, are prepared to ‘Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart’ (2 Tim. 2:22) will find in this wonderful, spiritually nurturing volume great encouragement and inspiration to “venture all for God” and live a life devoted to the glory of God and to the truth of his gospel.

—Andreas Köstenberger, professor of New Testament and biblical theology, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

John Bunyan has left the English-speaking world an almost unparalleled literary legacy of evangelical and Reformed piety. Phil Newton, Roger Duke, and Drew Harris have done us a service by making this collection of Bunyan’s writings available. It is a worthy contribution to the outstanding Profiles in Reformed Spirituality series and will be a source of inspiration and comfort for many pastors, seminary students, and Christian scholars. This book deserves a careful and prayerful reading.

—Nathan Finn, assistant professor of church history and Baptist studies, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

In Venture All for God, Roger Duke and Phil Newton introduce Bunyan to a new generation of readers by showing the joyous, daring faith of a man whose writings mirrored his own spiritual journey.

—Ray Pritchard, president of Keep Believing Ministries

Roger Duke is an author and professor at several institutions of higher learning, including Union University and Baptist College of Health Sciences.

Phil Newton is senior pastor at South Woods Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. His other works include Elders in Congregational Life and Conduct Gospel-Centered Funerals: Applying the Gospel at the Unique Challenge of Death, as well as contributions to numerous other books.

Drew Harris is an account executive at a national marketing communications agency and is working on a master’s of divinity degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

“An Honest and Well-Experienced Heart”: The Piety of John Flavel

• Author: Adam Embry
• Series: Profiles in Reformed Spirituality
• Series Editors: Joel R. Beeke and Michael A. G. Haykin
• Publisher: Reformation Heritage
• Publication Date: 2012
• Pages: 145

An Honest, Well-Experienced Heart introduces us to the life and writings of Puritan preacher and author John Flavel. In his brief, introductory biography, Adam Embry discusses Flavel’s background, ministry, and theology of keeping the heart, which, for Flavel, “is the great business of a Christian’s life.” Centuries ago, Flavel wrote, “Above all other studies in the world, study your own hearts.” Embry guides us through 42 short passages from Flavel’s writings that acquaint us with this dedicated Puritan minister’s piety and help us see the importance of this great business of keeping and managing our hearts.

John Flavel blended skillfully a robust Reformed theology with a warm-hearted Puritan piety. This made his writings both profound and simple. I pray that Adam Embry’s primer on Flavel’s work will promote a new generation of thoughtful readers intent on loving Christ more.

—Ryan McGraw, pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church

Adam Embry is a graduate of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and has been an assistant pastor of Auburndale Baptist Church since 2007.

About the Editors

Joel R. Beeke is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is a leading expert on Puritanism, a popular conference speaker, and the author of numerous books including A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life, 365 Days with Calvin, and A Faithful Church Member.

Michael A. G. Haykin is a professor of church history and biblical spirituality and director of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is also a research fellow at the Jonathan Edwards Centre Africa, University of the Free State, South Africa.