Light From Old Times or, Protestant Facts and Men

Bound in burgundy publisher's cloth, covers are plain with gilt lettering on the spine. Contents include chapters on John Wycliffe, John Rogers, John Hooper, Rowland Taylor, Hugh Latimer, John Bradford, Nicholas Ridley, Samuel Ward, Archbishop Laud, Richard Baxter, William Burnall, and James II. Illustrated with images in black and white occasionally throughout. Indexed. 397 pp. Dust jacket is in white a purple colors. Both book and dust jacket are like new. A very nice copy. Full refund if not satisfied. FROM THE DUST JACKET: "The nineteenth century was an age that witnessed great progress in many areas of exploration and learning. However, according to J. C. Ryle, it was an age of great ignorance too. [.] What particularly distressed Ryle was the scant knowledge of the English REformation evident amongst his contemporaries. In this lay a grave danger: one of the reasons so many congregations drift from their evangelical foundations is their sheer ignorance of Christian history, and their lack of understanding of the major doctrinal controversies and why they matter. Therefore he taught that one of the best ways to stop Christians wavering 'with every changing wind of doctrine' (Eph. 4:14) is to instil in them a deep love for Reformation and Puritan teaching, and a willingness to suffer for those gospel truths. [.] Ryle's abiding hope for Light from Old Times is that our souls will be stirred to prayer and action by the great testimonies of Reformers and Puritans found within its pages, and then that we will dig deeper into the writings of these spiritual giants.…