Topic · Living · 30 books
Books on Holiness
The Christian life as a walk: sanctification, self-denial, uprightness and the daily business of godliness.
The Rule of Saint Benedict
Benedict of Nursia · 516 AD — the document that shaped Western monasticism.
The Imitation of Christ
Thomas à Kempis · 1420 AD — the most-read Christian devotional after the Bible.
A Treatise on Good Works
Martin Luther · 1520 AD — why good works flow from faith rather than earn salvation.
The Freedom of a Christian
Martin Luther · 1520 AD — how faith makes a Christian lord of all, and how love makes the same Christian servant of all.
On the Christian Life
John Calvin · 1559 AD — self-denial, cross-bearing, and the proper use of earthly blessings drawn from the Institutes.
Conscience with the Power and Cases Thereof
William Ames · 1639 AD — how conscience judges a person before God, and how to answer the practical cases it raises in faith, worship, family, and trade.
The Godly Man's Choice
Caleb Grantham and Henry Scudder · 1644 AD — a Puritan guide to choosing a spouse wisely and living well in marriage afterwards.
Walking with God
Jeremiah Burroughs · 1649 AD — sermons on Enoch in Genesis 5:24 on what it means to walk with God, how to know you do, and how to keep walking when he seems absent.
Christian Love
Hugh Binning · 1653 AD — a young Covenanter’s treatise on love as the mark of Christ’s disciples, the bond that holds believers together, and the humility it rests on.
The Whole Duty of Man
Richard Allestree · 1658 AD — seventeen Sunday readings on the duties of a Christian life, with private devotions.
The World Conquered
Richard Alleine · 1658 AD — how to break the world's grip on the heart and find satisfaction in Christ.
The Beatitudes
Thomas Watson · 1660 AD — Christ's eight beatitudes expounded as the steps of a ladder to blessedness.
The Gentleman's Calling
Richard Allestree · 1660 AD — education, wealth, time, authority, and reputation treated as talents held in trust.
Christian Behavior
John Bunyan · 1663 AD — the practical duties Christians owe to God, family, and neighbor in everyday conduct.
Religion Our True Interest
Thomas Watson · 1663 AD — twenty-two chapters on Malachi 3:16 for a time when faith had grown cold.
The One Thing Necessary
Jan Amos Comenius · 1668 AD — an old man's case that life's labyrinths are escaped by holding to the one thing necessary.
A Plain Discourse upon Uprightness
Richard Steele · 1670 AD — what separates a sincere Christian from a hypocrite, and how God deals with the upright heart.
Heaven Taken by Storm
Thomas Watson · 1670 AD — a call to pursue God with earnest, passionate violence rather than passive religion.
A Plea for the Godly
Thomas Watson · 1672 AD — a defense of the righteous against the scorn of an age that mocked their godliness.
A Christian Directory, Volume 1: Walking with God
Richard Baxter · 1673 AD — directions for bringing an unconverted soul to grace and living out daily Christian duty.
A Christian Directory, Volume 2: Governing Heart and Life
Richard Baxter · 1673 AD — directions against pride, covetousness and sensuality, and for governing time and passion.
The Ladies' Calling
Richard Allestree · 1673 AD — counsel for women through life as maid, wife, and widow.
The Government of the Tongue
Richard Allestree · 1674 AD — an anonymous 1674 manual on the sins of speech, from slander and flattery to boasting and complaint, and how to govern the tongue.
Spiritual-Mindedness
John Owen · 1681 AD — a meditation on Romans 8:6 and setting the mind on heavenly rather than earthly things.
The Gospel Mystery of Sanctification
Walter Marshall · 1692 AD — holiness that grows not from striving but from union with Christ.
The Ten Commandments
Thomas Watson · 1692 AD — a verse by verse exposition of the Ten Commandments and their duties.
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
William Law · 1729 AD — the 1729 argument that devotion means a whole life given to God, from work and money to the hours of daily prayer.
The Preciousness of Time
Jonathan Edwards · 1734 AD — Edwards' two-part sermon on redeeming the time, because eternity depends on it.
Real Christianity
William Wilberforce · 1797 AD — distinguishing genuine faith from the shallow, nominal Christianity of his day.
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