"These CDs are wonderful. Praise God."

- Email to SWRB from the USA.

"The purchase of the Puritan Bookshelf CD's is proving to be one of the wisest investments that I have ever made. They are much more than I expected!! I am having a wonderful time reading and studying."

- TC, Internet Customer.

"The greatest collection of classic Reformation resources on one CD set ever!"

"In reading this mornings mailing I noticed that you also do the Reformation Bookshelf cd's so I went to your web site to see what was out - I was in ecstasy!!!"

- Missionary working in Hatyai, Southern Thailand

"Thank you so very much for the CDs.

I am amazed at the quality and quantity of the literature...

I cannot imagine any other single thing being done by any man or group of men in the earth today that is of such extensive, present, and enduring value as this CD work is.

God be praised that he uses sickly and weak men to forward his kingdom, that the work may not be mistaken to be wrought by the might of men, but by his Spirit. His strength is perfected in weakness."

- Email from Colorado

"Many thanks for... this superb product."

- Email from the UK

"You all are doing a wonderful service by making all these materials so readily available. Having them on my hard drive is BETTER than having access to a rare book library with all of them in hand... I have found the PBCD set invaluable as a tool of scholarship. So once again I commend you brothers for making it available."

- E. Calvin Beisner

Knox Theological Seminary

Author and Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Social Ethics

(Author of: Psalms of Promise: Celebrating the Majesty and Faithfulness of God, God in Three Persons, Answers: For Atheists, Agnostics, and Other Thoughtful Skeptics--Dialogs About Christian Faith and Life, Man, Economy, and Environment in Biblical Perspective, Where Garden Meets Wilderness: Evangelical Entry Into the Environmental Debate, Evangelical Heathenism? Examining Contemporary Revivalism, as well as other books, scholarly papers, and contributions to various anthologies).

"... they're simply incredible... The whole (PBCD--ed.) set offers a whopping **263,000** pages of material! ... (It has also--ed.) been indexed and hyperlinked so that you can quickly browse and navigate via the index in the left side column... It's an amazing collection of works, such that for about $0.33 per average book one can have a library that excels virtually any other in the history of the world, both for quality of volumes and for rapid ease of use."

- Dr. B. via email.

"If I am not mistaken, a project of this magnitude would undoubtedly result in one of the largest collections of Puritan writings available anywhere. I greatly rejoice to think that such a collection would be made available and I hope to own and profit from it myself... May the Lord bless you as you continue this vital ministry."

In Christ our Lord,

- Ernie Frank, PhD., Dept. of Statistics

West Virginia University

"This is superb. The project stands the chance of being transformational... I cannot put into words how much these CDs have meant to me... I treasure the copies on my desk and I use what I have continually. "

- Dr. Edwin P. Elliott, Jr.

Managing Editor of the Christian Observer

Director of the Christian Observer News Service

"The amount of great material here is absolutely staggering. Thanks for all your hard work in making this available to us."

- Dr. David Gamble (USA)

"The CD set has arrived, much to my great delight. I can't thank you enough for this treasure. Both sets together are the crown jewel of my library, and will be of inestimable value in my study, preaching, teaching and counseling. I promise you that I will work to give the Lord a good return on this investment."

- Email from a M.Div student in Texas

+ "It would have taken a lifetime to collect this treasure trove of Godly wisdom now I have a lifetime to treasure it all! Thank you for all the hard work!!!"

- Ministry Consultant in England

"By the way, the Reformation bookshelf CD's have arrived and are proving to be an invaluable resource. They will certainly save me a large amount of international travel and accommodation expenses going in search of library copies of the original volumes!"

- From Australia

I can't believe how great your new CD collection is! ...I really think that this will be a great benefit for scholarship in Puritan and Scottish theology, and I hope that this catches on... Thank you *so much* for putting out such great stuff at affordable prices on the PURITAN BOOKSHELF CD collection!!

- Internet Customer

"This is superb. The project stands the chance of being transformational... Isn't it amazing how the fathers continue to speak through the new media! The more we can get out into other parts of the world, the harder these ideas will be to stop in future years. Often I think of the match which lights the pile of leaves. One tends to forget that is how the forrest fires start..."

"I cannot put into words how much these CDs have meant to me."

- Dr. Edwin P. Elliott, Jr.

Managing Editor of the Christian Observer

Director of the Christian Observer News Service

"Grace and peace to you in Christ. I just opened my set of Puritan Bookshelf CDs and am quite impressed. It's a great collection... Blessings on you and your fellows for this wonderful service to the Church of Christ."

And later:

"By the way, thanks again for producing the set. It came in handy today when, reading Honeyman, I found him citing Ames's work on conscience and was able to go directly to the source and check the accuracy of Honeyman's use."

And also:

"You all are doing a wonderful service by making all these materials so readily available. Having them on my hard drive is BETTER than having access to a rare book library with all of them in hand."

And:

"Grace and peace to you in Christ, Brother. I just wanted to send you another note of thanks for the wonderful service SWRB has done in providing the Puritan Bookshelf CD series. From time to time in reading sources for my dissertation, I have come across references to the "Dutch Annotators" or the "English Annotators." (which are titled the "Westminter Annotations" on the Puritan Bookshelf CD set--ed.)... I thought to myself..., "I wonder if they're in the PBCD collection?" So I went to the index and searched, and, voila! So... I could actually cross-check the references to them to ensure that authors were properly citing them. Once again, I have found the PBCD set invaluable as a tool of scholarship. So once again I commend you brothers for making it available."

- E. Calvin Beisner

Author and Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Social Ethics

Knox Theological Seminary

This collection of 62 CDs is a truly astounding accomplishment. There is nothing like this available to the ordinary Christian on the whole face of the earth.

Now, for the first time ever, ordinary Christians can have direct and near effortless access to the very cream of Puritan and Reformed, as well as Covenanter, literature.

These books are often in fascinating first editions and many are electronically linked and indexed for the first time. The ordinary Christian may here dig into a simply staggering wealth of literature, from devotional and sermonic material to technical and scholarly works. Even in the days of the Long Reformation itself ordinary Christians didn't get to see this kind of library -- most couldn't read for a start, and even those who could, would never have been able to afford to buy even a hundredth part of the material on these CDs. Truly we are without excuse!

And the significance of this collection goes even beyond that. No longer do we have to wait for modern Reformed publishing houses to predict that a particular Reformation or Puritan book will be sufficiently popular to make it economical to reprint, or to deem it "safe" enough to be let loose on the modern evangelical church. Rather, we are now able to see for ourselves the whole range of the Puritan and Reformed publishing enterprise, including views that are usually suppressed by most modern devotees of "Puritan" piety!

Buy these CDs while you can, and find out for yourself what the First and Second Reformations were really all about! You'll be truly amazed, and, by God's grace, will grow from being an ordinary Christian to being an extraordinary one. What they used to say of the Puritan John Flavel's preaching, can be said of these CDs: they are "hissing hot"!

"I just watched what the contents will be of the new Reformation CDs and I hope to buy them all when they are available... I want to thank you for making these precious works available and being able to spread to other people... Just wanted to let you know how much I am looking forward to these CDs! Greetings in Christ Jesus and always praying for you ministry."

And also:

"I want to thank you to make those new works available which are going to be produced on these new reformation cd-roms. I am very thankful already for the puritan cd-roms and although I have read not so much as I would like to read, the things I read especially the death-testimonies of James Guthrie and James Renwick were very encouraging -- as also the sins of ministers from James Guthrie and the sermons of Robert Rollock were very heart encouraging. Praying that God might draw my heart more and more to be in his Truth. I just wanted to let you know this to encourage you and your colleagues. Could you tell me when it will be possible to buy these new reformation cd's, because the are still forthcoming?"

- From the Netherlands

I have been intending to write to you for several weeks now but the latest SWRB sale mailing has prompted me to do it today. I just wanted to express my thanks to you & all at SWRB for the great ministry you perform in supplying Puritan books. I have made several purchases from you over the past 2 years and I think each of the books has blessed and/or challenged me. Most notably have been The Christian Soldier by Watson and the one I am reading at the moment, Wells of Salvation Opened (Spustowe). In reading this latter book I have been so blessed & stirred; who said puritans were cold, stiff & starchy?

In reading this mornings mailing I noticed that you also do the Reformation Bookshelf cd's so I went to your web site to see what was out - I was in ecstasy!!! I hope in the near future to start purchasing these & also some of the Puritan bookshelf series...

Once again, thanks for providing a great service & for refreshing the saints in so many ways!!

- Missionary working in Hatyai, Southern Thailand

I have recently purchased your Puritan Bookshelf #1 CD. I have already had occasion to use it and have found it well-constructed and easy to navigate. Many thanks for your excellent work in putting this series together!

- N.B., Internet Customer.

Just a quick note... re: the PB CD's. I've... already used them a substantial amount. The ability to browse through them quickly... is remarkable and extremely valuable. For instance, I was able to look up several places re: Romans 1 (a la the Clark contoversy...) and then just print out those sections. Because of their great value I'm recommending them to a friend... who's headed for the pastorate.... Here's what I wrote him:

"The other reason I'm writing is to encourage you to pick up a set of the Puritan Bookshelf CD's from Still Waters. You said that you were 'in ecstasy' now that you're reading the Puritans, and if you get these, brother, you may have to seek medical attention for hyperstimulation. :) Really, they're simply incredible, comprising about 1000 different titles on 32 CD's (and when I say 'title' I mean anything from a 15 page pamphlet to a 1500 page, folio, multivolume work). The whole set offers a whopping **263,000** pages of material! ... (It has also--ed.) been indexed and hyperlinked so that you can quickly browse and navigate via the index in the left side column (for example, if you wanted to look up Romans 1 in various commentaries, rather than having to scroll through the text you just click on the hyperlink for chapter one in the sidebar, and it will take you immediately to that portion of the work). It's an amazing collection of works, such that for about $0.33 per average book one can have a library that excels virtually any other in the history of the world, both for quality of volumes and for rapid ease of use. Anyway, I wanted to be sure to point this out to you now that I've got my own set and have been using them."

- Dr. B. via email.

"I was excited to see the CD series "Puritan Bookshelf" advertised in the latest e-mail from SWRB.

I am fairly new to the Puritan works but have tried over the past several years to purchase as many titles as I could afford from Banner of Truth, SDG, and various other sources. I have found the Puritan writings to be of immense benefit to my soul over the past years. In the spiritual desolation of the academic environment the writings of these men have been used of God to encourage and challenge my faith...

If I am not mistaken, a project of this magnitude would undoubtedly result in one of the largest collections of Puritan writings available anywhere. I greatly rejoice to think that such a collection would be made available and I hope to own and profit from it myself...

May the Lord bless you as you continue this vital ministry."

In Christ our Lord,

- Ernie Frank, PhD., Dept. of Statistics

West Virginia University

A personal note from the Christian Observer Newswire administrator.

I admit to being a thorough going Puritan, a Constitutional Presbyterian, and a devote of the Hungarian Reformed Church. With that out of the way, take my word for it, Still Waters has done our community a great service by making the English Puritan classics available on CD. I treasure the copies on my desk and I use what I have continually.

English Puritan Original Sources on CD

Even if you do not think SWRB should be nominated for Most Congenial Reformed Mission, you may want to examine what the larger Reformed Church has here: Ames and Perkins on CD for US$19 and another disk with both the English and the Dutch Annotations for the same price. Doesn't that melt any scholar's heart. Peter Martyr comes on one of the disks in black letter with nothing left out.

It just keeps on going like that. Examine the list, pick one, and see for yourself.

I cannot put into words how much these CDs have meant to me.

- Dr. Edwin P. Elliott, Jr.

Managing Editor of the Christian Observer

Director of the Christian Observer News Service