A "Reforming" Booklist

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This is a list of old and new Christian "classics" * that will assist a Christian convert or newcomer to Reformed theology in learning the great doctrines and history of the faith. The Bible is the inerrant Word of God and our only infallible standard. Reading through the list would provide a sound Christian education in the history, background and application of the Reformed Christian faith. I hope to add full references and comments as time allows.
See also the excellent 'Read for the Lord' programme from the
Metropolitan Tabernacle, London.

Practical

Peter Masters: Steps for Guidance
Biblical Strategies for Witness
Sword & Trowel Booklet Series

J C Ryle: Holiness
PB Powers: The "I Wills" of the Psalms. A terrific help to suffering believers. A Victorian best seller. One to prescribe and take into hospital.
J Adams: From Forgiven to Forgiveness
Masters& Watts : The Necessity of Sunday Schools
AW Pink: Profiting from the Word
AW Pink: Comfort for Christians
H Bonar: When God's Children Suffer
JJ Davis: Evangelical Ethics
Scudder: The Christian's Daily Walk

Doctrine
AW Pink: The Sovereignty of God
AW Pink: The Attributes of God
AW Pink: Profiting from the Word
Louis Berkhof: Manual of Christian Doctrine
Louis Berkhof: Systematic Theology
RL Reymond: A new Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith
W Hendriksen : The Bible on the Life Hereafter
H Bavink: The Doctrine of God
JL Girardeau: Calvinism and Evangelical Arminianism
D Kingdon: Children of Abraham
PK Jewett: Infant Baptism and the Covenant of Grace
C Hodge: Systematic Theology (Abridged)
EH Bickersteth : The Trinity
WS Plumer: The Grace of Christ
Masters (annotations)1689 Baptist Confession of Faith
J Calvin: Insitutes of the Christin Religion (Beveridge or Battles Translation).

Puritan
N Ranew : The Practice of Piety
T Watson : A Body of Divinity
M Mead: The Almost Christian Discovered
R Baxter : The Reformed Pastor

Devotional
CH Spurgeon : Just about anything he ever wrote... try sermon sets & "Morning & Evening"
Krummacher: The Suffering Saviour
John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress & The Holy War
AW Pink: Life of Elijah
AW Pink: Life of David

History
John Fox: Fox's Book of Martyrs
Verduin: The Reformers and their Stepchildren
Boer: A Short History of the Early Church
A Edersheim: Jesus the Messiah
A Edersheim: Bible History-Old Testament
JH Merle D'Aubigny: The History of the Reformation in England.
Gay, David: Battle for the Church1577-1644.Pub Brachus. ISBN0 9529982 0 3 Extraordinarily helpful and challenging church history and apologetic for indepedency.

Biography
SP Carey: William Carey
Stickleberg : John Calvin
R Bainton : Here I Stand (Luther)
McCrie: John Knox
Dallimore: George Whitefield
Dallimore: CH Spurgeon
D'Aubigny : The Protector (Cromwell)
Bunyan : Grace Abounding

Bible Helps
W Hendricksen: Survey of the Bible
Strong: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Thayer: Greek English Lexicon
Gesenius: Hebrew Chaldee Lexicon
CH Spurgeon: Commenting and Commentaries
Hendricksen(Publisher): The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Apologetics
Moreland: Scaling the Secular City
M Behe : Darwin's Black Box**
M Denton Evolution: A Theory in Crisis**
Ravi Zacharias: The Shattered Visage
J Blanchard: Does God Believe in Atheists?

Topical
Pickering : The Tragedy of Compromise
Pickering: Biblical Separation
Bobgans: Psychoheresy
Cox : Biblical Studies on Final Things
Mathison: Dispensationalism
Woodrow: Women's Adornment
Knight: The Role Relationships of Men and Women
Spurgeon : The Downgrade controversy
JL Dagg: Manual of Church Order
T Hiscox: Principles and Practice for Baptist Churches

Anti-Charismatic
PM Masters: The Healing Epidemic
J MacArthur: The Charismatics
J MacArthur: Spiritual Gifts 1 Cor 12
C Hand: Falling short: The Alpha Course Examined

Roman Catholicism
J McCarthy: The Gospel According To Rome
R Jones: Understanding Roman Catholicism
Woodrow: Babylon Mystery Religion

Jehovah's Witness
Bowman: Why You Should Believe in the Trinity
DA Reed: JW's Answered Verse by Verse

*(excluding Bible Commentaries as needing a separate list to themselves -although Matthew Henry or Matthew Poole's
Commentary on the whole Bibleis a sound basis)

** Secular books by non-Christians but arguing purely scientifically to demolish the Evolutionary view. Useful to Christians.

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