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Browse Christian writings, search their text, and open any section.

Commentaries

Notes and expositions for reading at the verse.

Adam Clarke, Commentary and Critical Notes

Clarke's scholarly commentary, stronger on language and background than Henry. Original English.

Adam Clarke

Aquinas, Catena Aurea

Thomas Aquinas's chain of the Fathers on the four Gospels, in the Newman English of 1841-45.

St. Thomas Aquinas

Barnes' Notes on the New Testament

Albert Barnes's readable nineteenth-century notes on the New Testament. Original English.

Albert Barnes

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

A compact critical and explanatory commentary on the whole Bible. Original English by Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, and David Brown.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown

Keil & Delitzsch, Old Testament

Nineteenth-century Protestant Old Testament commentary, still cited in academic work. Classic English translation.

Karl Friedrich Keil, Franz Delitzsch

Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible

The most-read English whole-Bible commentary, in six volumes. Public-domain original English.

6 volumes

Spurgeon, The Treasury of David

Charles Spurgeon on the Psalms, gathering Reformed and Puritan voices around each psalm. Original English.

C. H. Spurgeon

Wesley's Notes on the Bible

John Wesley's notes on the Old and New Testaments, Methodism's formative Bible commentary. Original English.

John Wesley

Fathers

Schaff's public-domain English of the Ante-Nicene and Nicene fathers.

Ante-Nicene Fathers

Philip Schaff's standard public-domain English set of pre-Nicene writers. These nineteenth-century translations are the free backbone — not modern critical editions.

9 volumes

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I

Schaff's First Series: Augustine and Chrysostom in public-domain English. Useful for reading and search; not a substitute for modern critical translations.

14 volumes

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II

Schaff's Second Series: historians, Cappadocians, Athanasius, and the councils, in the same public-domain English line.

14 volumes

Classics

Cover-to-cover Christian books.

à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

Thomas à Kempis in William Benham's public-domain English.

Thomas à Kempis

Augustine, Confessions

Augustine's Confessions in E. B. Pusey's public-domain English. Modern study editions such as Chadwick remain copyrighted and are not included here.

St. Augustine of Hippo

Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God

Short conversations and letters on a life of continual prayer. Public-domain English.

Brother Lawrence

Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan's allegory of the Christian life, in the original English.

John Bunyan

Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

Calvin's Institutes in Henry Beveridge's 1845 English. The McNeill-Battles edition remains copyrighted and is not included here.

John Calvin

Edwards, Religious Affections

Jonathan Edwards on true religious affection, in the original English.

Jonathan Edwards

Owen, Of the Mortification of Sin

John Owen's treatise on putting sin to death, from the Goold edition. Public-domain English.

John Owen

Creeds

Confessions, catechisms, and received creeds.

1689 London Baptist Confession

The original thirty-two chapters, without later Philadelphia additions.

Particular Baptists of London

Apostles' Creed

The received English form as printed by Schaff, not a modern recension.

Philip Schaff

Heidelberg Catechism

One hundred twenty-nine questions in three parts, in public-domain English.

Zacharias Ursinus, Caspar Olevianus

Nicene Creed

The received English form as printed by Schaff, not a modern recension.

Philip Schaff

Thirty-Nine Articles (1571)

The 1571 English articles, not the 1801 American revision.

Church of England

Westminster Confession of Faith (1647)

The 1647 Confession from Schaff's English of the London/Edinburgh text, not the later American revision.

Westminster Assembly

Westminster Larger Catechism

The Assembly's full teaching companion to the Confession, in public-domain English.

Westminster Assembly

Westminster Shorter Catechism

The Assembly's brief Q&A for ordinary instruction, in public-domain English.

Westminster Assembly