A friend pointed me to this incredible resource for guys like me who are looking for texts of old classic Protestant theological works (of course, with the end in mind of converting the files into Amazon Kindle format). It's The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts. They sort the texts by theological schools, differentiating between Anglican, Puritan, Lutheran, Arminian, Unitarian, Quaker, and Reformed/Calvinist.It appears that the texts are converted from nearly illegible PDFs and painstakingly converted into text format. As an example of the source materials which they create these wonderful text files from, simply look at this page from a William Perkins book which they converted into readable English text. The fact that these are originals also means that it's a wonderful site if you read Ecclesiastical Latin. The only books I've been able to read on the site were the works by the Puritans. They have many texts which I've never seen anywhere else in any readable format. For example:
- A Golden Chain, by William Perkins
- A Body of Divinity, by James Usher
- Cases of Conscience, by William Perkins
- The Covenant of Life Opened, by Samuel Rutherford
- A Letter to the Duke of Somerset, by Peter Martyr Vermigli (one of his few English writings)
- An exposition of the Apostles' Creed, by William Perkins



Hi! I had problems trying to access the website! Too bad,I'm a digital book hunter too :(
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