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New Pictet Book Available (French Only)
Google Books has recently (as far as I know) added Histoire de l’Eglise et du monde (History of the Church and of the World) by Benedict Pictet to their collection of books. Those who are Reformed and read French will presumably be thankful to be able to add it to their collections. (link) -Turretinfan To…
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Sad Books News
I regret to inform my readers that Live Search Books (and Microsoft’s digitization project that went with it) has been aborted. This is a huge loss, as it was the closest competitor to Google Books. It had a better interface than its competitor and sometimes had content available that was not available via Google Books.…
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Old but Good Books from Google
There are a remarkable number of good old books available in whole or in part at Google Books. Here is a list of a few that I have come across recently. I’ll begin with the what seems to me to be the gem of the collection (links are to Google Books except as noted otherwise):…
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Some Classic Reading – Alexander, Brooks, Charnock, Goodwin, Sibbes, Strong
Commentary on Acts by J. A. Alexander (Volume 1) (Volume 2) Complete Works of Thomas Brooks (Volume 1) (Volume 2) (Volume 3) (Volume 4) (Volume 5) (Volume 6) Complete Works of Stephen Charnock (Volume 1) (Volume 2) (Volume 3) Complete Works of Thomas Goodwin (Volume 1) (Volume 2) (Volume 3) (Volume 4) (Volume 5) (Volume…
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Benedict Pictet – Son in Law of Francis Turretin
Benedict Pictet was the Son-in-Law and spiritual successor of Turretin in Geneva. Here are a list of his works that are currently available (to my knowledge). Sadly, only one is currently freely available in English. Pictet, Benedict – Brevis Syllabus Controversarium (Brief Syllabus of Controversies) (Latin) (link)Pictet, Benedict – Theologia Christiana (Christian Theology) (Latin) (link)…
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The Works of Francis Turretin
The Works of Francis Turretin are now freely available in the original Latin. It will be quite some time before they are fully translated into English. Nevertheless, for those that read Latin, the followings gems have been scanned into the Google Books collection: Volume 1 (link) Volume 2 (link) Volume 3 (link) Volume 4 (link)…
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The Real Turretin – and others – on the Atonement
I recently happened upon this Google Books scan of “A Historical Sketch of the Opinions on the Atonement” by James Renwick Willson, including a significant portion of translations from the real Turretin (link to Google Book). Note that the pdf can be downloaded (currently around 13 MB). UPDATE: Also, find here a brief exerpt from…
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Works of Thomas Boston
The Works of Thomas Boston, which are worth reading, have been scanned by Google Books: Vol. 1Vol. 2Vol. 3Vol. 4Vol. 5Vol. 6Vol. 7Vol. 8Vol. 9Vol. 10Vol. 11 Discovered over at the PuritanBoard (link); I haven’t gone through to check that the information is associating correctly to the correct volume. Remember that these are downloadable as…