Classic Reprints No. 17
John Wycliffe
By Daniel Curry and C. E. Barrows
1853, 1879
69 pages
$10.00
Two nineteenth-century Baptist ministers each provide concise yet supplementary
biographies of John Wycliffe and his role in translating the Bible into English.
Classic Reprints No. 19
Cardinal Ximenes: Statesman, Ecclesiastic, Soldier, and Man of
Letters, with an Account of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible
By James P. R. Lyell
1917
142 pages
$15.00
The life of Cardinal Ximenes, editor of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible,
published in 1522, with an account of that version. Illustrated with fourteen
plates,
and supplemented by a listing of existing copies of the Complutensian
Polyglot.
Classic Reprints No. 25
Luther as a Bible Translator
By Edward Rhiem and L. Franklin Gruber
1884, 1923
44 pages
$10.00
Two articles on Luther and his Bible. The first
is an analysis of Luther as a Bible translator and the effect of his Bible on
the German language. It is translated from the German, and originally appeared
in The Baptist Quarterly Review. The second is a quadricentennial study
of Luther's New Testament reprinted from Bibliotheca Sacra.
Classic Reprints No. 26
Thomas Aquinas
By Richard M. Nott
1882
41 pages
$10.00
Originally appearing in The Baptist Review, this series of two articles
by the nineteenth-century Baptist minister Richard Nott is an account of the life and legacy of the Roman Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas
from a Baptist point of view.
Classic Reprints No. 27
Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuits
By J. R. Henderson, et al.
1841, 1843, 1884
92 pages
$10.00
A compilation of articles by three nineteenth-century Baptist ministers on
the history, principles, and policies of the Roman Catholic order of the
Jesuits,
and their founder, Ignatius Loyola.
Classic Reprints No. 39
Mohammed and Mohammedism
By Enoch Pond, et al.
1840, 1877
40 pages
$10.00
Two articles on the founder, history, and doctrines of Mohammedism by two
nineteenth-century Baptist ministers.
Classic Reprints No. 62
Tischendorf and Tregelles
By Ezra Abbot
1875
34 pages
$10.00
Brief biographical sketches of Lobegott Friedrich Constantin Tischendorf
(1815-1874) and Samuel Prideaux Tregelles (1813-1875), two of the leading
Greek scholars
and textual critics of the nineteenth century. What is unique about these
sketches, written soon after the deaths of Tischendorf and Tregelles, is
that they were
written by Ezra Abbot (1819-1884), who was not only a contemporary, but a
fellow Greek scholar and textual critic.
Classic Reprints No. 66
Desiderius Erasmus
By Robert Falconer, et. al
1858, 1862, 1936, 1937
102 pages
$15.00
Five articles on life, character, writings, and literary influence of Erasmus of Rotterdam
(1466-1536), the editor of the first published edition of the Greek New Testament.
Three articles were written on the occasion of the four hundredth anniversary of his
death..
Classic Reprints No.
110
Vicesimus Knox (1752-1821) was an English minister who ran afoul of the British government because of his sermons opposing war against the French. This reprint consists of the preface and three chapters (X—"When Human Life is held cheap, it is a Symptom of a prevailing Spirit of Despotism," XVII— "On debauching the Minds of the rising Generation and a whole People, by giving them Military Notions in a free and commercial Country," XXX—"The Spirit of Despotism delights in War or systematic Murder") from his 1795 book The Spirit of Despotism, an analysis of how political despotism at home can arise under the cover of fighting a foreign war; the complete text of his 1793 sermon, "The Prospect of Perpetual and Universal Peace to Be Established on the Principles of Christian Philanthropy; and an essay, "The Folly and Wickedness of War." Includes also a biographical preface and a likeness of Knox.
Classic Reprints No. 133
The Life of Zwingli
By R. D. C. Robbins
1851, 1852
111 pages
$15.00
Reprinted from Bibliotheca Sacra, this is a four-part
article on the life of the famed Swiss reformer Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1581).
Classic Reprints No. 157
Memoir of the Life and Writings of William Tyndale
By George Offor
1836
102 pages
$15.00
This is the introduction to The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Published in 1526. Being the First Translation from the Greek into
English, by that Eminent Scholar and Martyr, William Tyndale. Since editions
of Tyndale's 1526 and 1534 revised New Testaments are readily available today,
just the author's introduction is being reprinted. Includes an image of Tyndale,
a memoir of Tyndale, a list of books "either ascribed to Tyndale, or
published with his name," and "select collations of the first and
second editions of Tyndale's New Testament."
