The Sword & the Trowel
Volume I (1865)
Now available is the full, unabridged, and completely re-typeset volume of the inaugural year of Spurgeon’s own magazine.
Recent Bookstore Offerings
APC Printings
For the first time ever, we are fully retypesetting Spurgeon Pulpit Sermon volumes—New Park Street Pulpit + Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit volumes.
This is for Volume 5 for the year 1859 in the limited edition navy blue boards.
No current ETA, but we will update as soon as the project moves into production.
For the first time ever, we are fully retypesetting Spurgeon Pulpit Sermon volumes—New Park Street Pulpit + Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit volumes.
This is for Volume 5 for the year 1859!
No current ETA, but we will update as soon as the project moves into production.
Since The Sword and Trowel monthly magazines were originally published, they have never been properly reproduced in full in any physical format, much less re-typeset into modern digital font. At A Pilgrim’s Coffer, we are starting to remedy this deficit starting with the first original volume from 1865.
These monthly issues are the individual printings contained within the annual 1865 volume; if you have ordered the annual volume, you will receive all of these issues bound in a single hardback volume—but we realize some may appreciate having the standalone issues as they were first published each month.
Since The Sword and Trowel annual magazines were originally published, they have never been properly reproduced in full in any format, much less re-typeset into modern digital font. At A Pilgrim’s Coffer, we are starting to remedy this deficit starting with the first original volume from 1865.
This is the inaugural Volume 1 for the year 1865!
For the first time ever, we are fully retypesetting Spurgeon Pulpit Sermon volumes—New Park Street Pulpit + Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit.
This partial set offering is for all volumes currently available.
Volumes are Standard Edition (Dark Grey).
For the first time ever, we are fully retypesetting Spurgeon Pulpit Sermon volumes—New Park Street Pulpit + Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit volumes.
This is for Volume 4 for the year 1858!
For the first time ever, we are fully retypesetting Spurgeon Pulpit Sermon volumes—New Park Street Pulpit + Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit. This is for Volume 4!
This limited navy edition is identical to the standard offering, except that the boards are blue and the dust jackets are solid white instead of off-white.
The numbers for these navy editions will always be minimal; volumes are limited to ~100 volumes.
ALL limited edition volumes come with complimentary dust jackets.
**This 1862 printing of Exposition of Hebrews, in seven volumes, is the source material that was photolithographed (copied) for our modern editions; it is the same as the T&T Clark publication of the content. Combined with the 1826 21-volume Works of John Owen, this exists as the content of the first full publication of John Owen’s complete works.**
‘…a work of gigantic strength as well as gigantic size; and he who hath mastered it is very little short, both in respect to the doctrinal and practical of Christianity, of being an erudite and accomplished theologian.’ — THOMAS CHALMERS
“John Owen here analyses the text of Hebrews with care and provides a judicious interpretation which shows an impressive familiarity with a wide range of biblical scholarship. He also provides rich practical applications.
John Owen (1616-1683) was probably the greatest systematic theologian of the British Puritans, yet such was his depth of Christian wisdom and discernment that he also excelled in pastoral and spiritual theology. Common to his stature in both of these areas was his understanding of Scripture. While this is evident throughout his writings, it is in his massive exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews that the range of his knowledge and the depth of his exegetical powers are most evident. Here he analyses the text with care and provides a judicious interpretation which shows an impressive familiarity with a wide range of biblical scholarship. In addition, following the classical Puritan method of commentary with its constant concern for Christian living, he provides rich practical applications. Thus in a balanced way, he addresses both mind and heart. Written with the reverent spirit of a scholar-pastor whose stated aim in his ministry was ‘to promote holiness’, Owen’s study of Hebrews is one of the great classical commentaries of the Christian Church.”—Banner of Truth.
5 Volumes of the Imperial Bible Dictionary, edited by Patrick Fairbairn.
The complete set is 6 volumes, and this collection is only missing Vol. 4 to be complete.
Contributors include Horatius Bonar, John Eadie, Franz Delitzsch, George Smeaton, and many others.
Includes and Introduction by J.C. Ryle.
An excellent volume of the greater of John Bunyan. In large part, these are what we would consider the “essential” works of his. Bound in a large, beautiful mustard-like cloth board, this edition would be a welcomed volume in any theological library. This William Collins, Sons, and Co. printing is from the 1880’s—as accurately as we can date it; later 1900’s printings did not contain this printer mark, among other things, so we are quite confident in this dating.
The works contained are:
—The Pilgrim’s Progress, Parts I & II.
—The Holy War
—Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
—The Jerusalem Sinner Saved
—Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ
—The Saints’ Privilege and Profit
—The Water of Life
—The Barren Fig-Tree
—Bunyan’s Last Sermon
Originially published in 1860, this Outlines of Theology volume by Archibald Alexander Hodge, the son of Princeton Seminary’s venerated Charles Hodge, is one of his best known works. This British edition by Thomas Nelson & Sons is of fine quality compared to much that was being produced in America during the period.
C.H. Spurgeon and company , in the 1865 volume of the Sword and Trowel said:
“WE can best show our appreciation of this able body of Divinity by mentioning that we have used it in our College with much satisfaction both to tutor and students. We intend to make it a Class Book, and urge all young men who are anxious to become good theologians, to master it thoroughly. Of course we do not endorse the Chapter on Baptism. To a few of the Doctor's opinions in other parts we might object, but as a handbook of Theology, in our judgment, it is like Goliah's sword—’there is none like it.’ It is almost entirely in the form of Questions and Answers. It was published by a Son, who had been associated with his Father in the Professorships of a Theological College in America, after the Author's decease.”
Antique, Collectible, & Rare Books
New & Used Books
Assortment of Puritan Paperback volumes by Banner of Truth.
In NEW condition.
“The Christian religion is a golden chain with which the hands of men are fettered from all hatred. The spirit of Christ is love. Wherever he governs, love reigns as a necessary consequence.”
I often tell that the tentacles of Spurgeon are so far-and-wide reaching, that one could cover an endless history and education simply by following the breadcrumbs dropped along the way. The following will detail a fascinatingly arbitrary example.
Amos Ives (A.I.) Root, 1839-1923, was an Ohio businessman who became well-known during his day for developing beekeeping innovations,…
All these evils have taken place, and are happening in the limbs of Christ’s body, and God turns away His face from their prayers, by not hearing as to what they wish for, since they know not that the fulfilment of their wishes would not be good for them. The Church is poor, as she hungers and thirsts in her wanderings for that food with which she shall be filled in her own country: she is in toils from her youth up, as the very Body of Christ saith in another Psalm, Many a time have they overcome me from my youth, [Ps. cxxix. 1]. And for this reason some of her members are lifted up even in this world, that in them may be the greater lowliness.
A London map and virtual tour of prominent locations and/or related sites in the life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
David Brainerd’s diary includes a striking hyphenated word, “gospel-temper.” His journal records,
“Wednesday, Dec. 15. Enjoyed something of God to-day, both in secret and social prayer; but was sensible of much barrenness, and defect in duty, as well as my inability to help myself for the time to come, or to perform the work and business I have to do. Afterwards, felt much of the sweetness of religion, and the tenderness of the gospel-temper…”
I Will Pour Water
[St. Peter’s, July 1, 1838]
“For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.” [Isa. xliv. 3,4.]
“The Son of God, in mighty love,
Came down to Bethlehem for me,
Forsook His throne of light above,
An infant upon earth to be.
In love, the Father's sinless Child
Sojourned at Nazareth for me;
With sinners dwelt the Undefiled,
The Holy One in Galilee.”
This passage is very relevant to our whole subject of evangelism because here we have one of the greatest evangelists who ever lived giving instructions to one who was told to “. . . do the work of an evangelist. . .” (II Tim. 4:5). Surely these two facts demand our careful and sober consideration. If we are serious about being biblical in our evangelism, we cannot ignore these instructions.
There are several things in these few verses that would correct much of the error in man-centered evangelism, not only in the expected responses, but in the message and methods of evangelism. Let us carefully examine this passage, which contains instructions to one who was given the apostolic command to do the work of an evangelist. In this passage (II Tim. 2:24-26), we have some excellent instructions for the evangelist, preacher, and personal worker, and some necessary evangelistic principles if our evangelism is to be God-centered.
The Sword and Trowel Tracts of C.H. Spurgeon — Foreword by Phil Johnson.
Never before have the full numbered tracts of C.H. Spurgeon, from his Sword & Trowel magazine (1865-1869), been printed and offered together until now. This small volume contains fully re-typeset tracts with updated original images to provide the reader with a fascinating look into Spurgeon’s array of tract material that was offered to the masses for distrubition. Brief insight into the roots of church tracts (via Tractarianism) in the UK help to offer understanding as to where these little works fit in the scheme of Spurgeon’s ministry and Church evangelization in the UK during his day.