'John Brown of Wamphray (1610-1679) has been rightly called the most important Scottish theologian of his day. He was especially gifted at merging profound doctrinal truth with warm Christ-centered zeal & godly piety. Samuel Rutherford wrote of him, 'I always [had]... a great love to dear Mr. John Brown because I thought I saw Christ in him more than in his brethren.' Brown's blending of doctrinal truth and Christ-centered piety is most clearly displayed in his Christ: the Way the Truth and the Life. This is biblical, Reformed, Puritan spirituality at its best. Would you learn the art of continually fleeing to Christ by faith for your justification and sanctification? Read and reread this precious volume, filled with experimental truth about how to go to Christ continually for every spiritual need. Use it as a devotional gem, and pray for the Holy Spirit to grant you a growing, daily 'making use' of Christ by faith' (Joel Beeke).
This book was written during Brown's time of banishment in Holland. Among its 29 chapters we find Brown dealing with justification, but especially focusing on sanctification. Chapters are given to 'crucifying the old man,' 'How to make use of Christ, as Truth, for comfort, when truth is oppressed and borne down,' 'for steadfastness,' 'for encouragement,' and much more. A classic on practical godliness if there ever was one.
The John Brown of Wamphray CD is Reformation Bookshelf CD 8 at: http://www.swrb.com/Puritan/reformation-bookshelf-CDs.htm
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“ Rare John Brown ” Recently I was kidding Dr. Beeke that his massive work, "Meet the Puritans" did not contain the life of John Brown of Wamphray, so I toss it to the ground before I read it. Then I brought to his attention a quote from John Brown from Iain Murray's book, "The Old Evangelicalism." Well recently the Banner of Truth released a two volume series on the Scottish Puritans. To my surprise his bio. doesn't appear to be in there either, from what I can learn from the introduction. At least my friends at SWRB know about this rare puritan author! Thanks for this PDF file!
