Reformation CD#22 - The Reformation Family
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Gouge, a celebrated Puritan Divine, was a member of the Westminster Assembly and Darling (Cyclpaedia Bibliographica) calls him "eminently learned and a preacher of great influence."Many consider this one of the best books ever written on the family. It includes eight treatises:

If you are interested in family matters it is not likely that you will find a better or more thoroughly Scriptural book on this topic!Over 700 pages.

A scholarly, yet practical, look at God's view of the family. Argues that the family is the basic building block of society. Looks at the family in Western and non-Western culture. Deals with marriage, children and parenting. Jay Adams reworked the manuscript.

The two sermons noted above form foundational teaching that every family should be aware of and practice. A faithful ministry and faithful parents, who catechise their children daily, will do more for true Reformation and godliness than just about any other means to this end. Here Henry also adds simple questions to each question of the Westminster Shorter Catechism to help explain it to beginners. Very practical!

Family worship is presently one of the most powerful weapons in a Christian parent's arsenal of truth. Read this Puritan sermon and see why!

The author notes that "[f]rom the earliest period in the history of the Church, the duty of family instruction has been emphasized as the most important of all agencies in perpetuating the knowledge of Divine truth" (emphasis added). Furthermore, he writes, "each pious household is a separate fibre of those roots by which the Church of the living God takes hold upon the earth, and preserves its existence in a sinful world." It is especially important that fathers study material like this, for if they will not lead their families in instruction and daily family worship, they have, for all intents and purposes, denied the faith. For when 1 Tim. 5:8 states, "But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel," it should be taken to heart. Even if this verse refers specifically to the material aspects of life, how much more important are the spiritual duties? This book should be a great encouragement to those entrusted with these most important spiritual duties and privileges!

The title continues: "Showing: I. The nature of matrimony, its sacred original and the true meaning of its institution; II. The gross abuse of matrimonial chastity, from the wrong notions which have possessed the world, degenerating even to whoredom; III, The Diabolical practice of attempting to prevent child-bearing by physical preparations; IV. The fatal consequences of clandestine or forced marriages, through the persuasion, interests, or influence of parents and relations, to wed the person they have no love for, but oftentimes an aversion to; V. Of unequal matches, as to the disproportion of age; and how such, many ways, occasion a matrimonial whoredom; VI. How married persons may be guilty of conjugal lewdness, and that a man may, in effect, make a whore of his own wife; Also many other particulars of family concern." From the author of Robinson Crusoe and many other writings. 104 pages.

Contains the third edition of "Youthful Devotedness: Or, The Youth of the Church Instructed in the Duties of Practical Religion." This first section was written because the author was "most deeply impressed with the conviction that one of the most urgent and important duties of the Church in the present day is to give all attention to the training of the young; and to excite (the Christian community--RB) to earnest, persevering prayer on behalf of its baptized members." Also contains Houston's "The Fellowship Prayer-Meeting: The Institution, Nature, History, and Advantages of Select Christian Fellowship." 401 pages.

Based on "Train up," or catechise, "a child in the way he should go," or in his way: "and When he is old, he will not depart from it" (Prov. 22:6). Shows that there are several texts of Scripture from which the learned conclude that this mode of Catechising was used in the apostles' days, and by the apostles themselves and their immediate successors; and this in imitation of the Jews who had "a form of knowledge and of the truth in the law," (Rom. 2:20), out of which they instructed the ignorant, and taught babes.

Lessons for the use of children designed to show the wisdom and goodness of God as they appear in the works of nature. A one-of-a-kind book of 185 pages.

"(F)rom 1824-5 he wrote his oft-reprinted Tales of the Covenanters, consisting ofHelen of the Glen, Ralph Gemmell and The Persecuted Family, originally published separately and anonymously. These celebrate the Covenanting heroes and martyrs of the Killing Times" (Needham cited in Cameron, ed.,Dictionary of Scottish Church History & Theology, p. 662). 253 pages.

Though focusing on Alberta, the principles dealt with in this book can be applied throughout Canada, and in any other nations where home/private education is taking place. Describes the historical background and major episodes in this debate and then assesses the three major arguments made against private schools. Concludes by showing the superiority of private education and exposing the self serving nature of the public educator's agenda. This is Wagner's Master's Thesis.

GRAVES, F.P.
Peter Ramus and the Educational Reformation of the Sixteenth Century

Also see Greg Price's Christian Education in the Home: Help! My Daughter Wants to Date (1994) in the FREE books folder on this CD.

The title continues: "Containing a pleasant invective against Poets, Pipers, Players, Jesters, and such like Caterpillars of a Commonwealth; Setting Up the Flag of Defiance to their Mischievous exercise, and overthrowing their Bulwark, by Profane Writers, Natural reason, and common experience: A discourse as pleasant for Gentlemen that favour learning, as profitable for all that will follow virtue" (spelling modernized--RB). Very rare!

Also includes Witherspoon's letter respecting play actors and a sermon, on the burning of the theatre at Richmond, by Samuel Miller. An introductory address by several ministers in New York (including Samuel Miller), dissuading Christians from attending theatrical representations, prefaces this work. 199 pages.

Contains numerous Calvinistic tracts and newsletters (100+) covering many subjects.

Also freeon this CD are the following audio (MP3) tracks: