Classics
on the Church
- Defense of the Doctine of the Church
of England, 1564, John Jewel. (Title says it all.) 123 pages
in ebook format. (table of contents)
- Episcopacy, Ordination, Lay-Eldership,
and Liturgies, Archibald Boyd (1839), five letters written on
the topics in the heading. (table of contents)
- Of the Church, Richard Field
(1847), somewhat technical, and leaves no stone unturned. He covers the nature
of the church, pope, justification, baptism, and just about everything imaginable.
Four volumes and 2455 pages in ebook format. Field is technical at times,
especially in the endnotes, but most will use him with great profit. (table
of contents)
- A Pastor's Sketches, Ichabod
S. Spender, 1850, covers simplicity of faith, despair, depravity, death,
divided mind, and many other things. 293 pages in ebook format. (table
of contents)
- The Church and Its Apostolic Ministry,
John Spalding, 1887. Covering the Church's nature, authority, episcopacy,
apostolic succession, and more. 128 pages in ebook format. (table
of contents)
- Practical Religion, 1890, J.
C. Ryle, very practical, explaining self-inquiry, prayer, Bible reading,
riches, sickness, the world, and too much to name. 432 pages in ebook form.
(table of contents)
- The Ministry of the Word, W.
C. E. Newbolt, 1913, 105 pages in ebook format. This focuses on the minster,
his vision, burden, message, ministry to the saints, vigilence, and so forth.
(table of contents)
- Liturgy and Society, A. G.
Hebert, 1935, explaining the modern world and Christianity, Christianity
and other religions, liturgy, dogma, personal religion, church service, faith
and life, Christianity and art, after liberalism, and more. 218 pages in ebook
format. (table of contents)
- Hooker's Polity in Modern English,
John S. Marshall 1948 (abridged, used with permission).
136 pages in ebook format. (table
of contents)