We are now looking for old sponsors to renew and new sponsors to come on board to support the Naphtali Press Special Editions book series begun last year. We have successively produced two of three volumes with the third just about ready to go to print. These were Durham on Revelation vol. 1 of 3, Jus Divinum Regiminis Ecclesiastici, and the to be published David Dickson sermons on Lamentations (from a surviving manuscript, first time in print, no link yet at RHB or copublisher). For what NPSE is about see here.
We are currently raising sponsorships for our second series year. For more about Naphtali Press Special Editions (NPSE), see here. For this year’s sponsorship options at the store see here. For quick pay options to bypass the store see here. The titles proposed for NPSE series year 2020-2021 are:
We are currently raising sponsorships for our second series year. For more about Naphtali Press Special Editions (NPSE), see here. For this year’s sponsorship options at the store see here. For quick pay options to bypass the store see here. The titles proposed for NPSE series year 2020-2021 are:
- James Durham, A Commentary upon the Book of Revelation, Lectures on Chapters 4-11 (or possibly through 14). See prior year’s descriptions.
- The Collected Shorter Works of George Gillespie. Volume 1 of probably 3 volumes. Gillespie is the author of two famous large books. A critical edition of his first book, Dispute Against the English Popish Ceremonies was published by Naphtali Press in 2013. A new edition of his magnum opus, Aaron’s Rod Blossoming, a work against state intrusion into the governing of the church, has yet to be produced and would be a significant undertaking. However, his many shorter works are in need of revision and others new found in manuscript included, which would make a nice collection of about two and probably three volumes. This proposed would be the first and would contain at least his Assertion of the Government of the Church of Scotland and the various anonymously published works.
- Gisbertus Voetius, On the Sabbath and Feast Days. First time translation of De Sabbatho et Festis (1638). Not much by Voetius has been translated into English. This is an important work because Voetius was born in 1589, would have known men of the prior generation, was at Dort and clerked and issued its deliverances to print, and thus was well situated to canvas the Reformed view on this issue as it developed from the earlier days of the Reformed churches to 1638. The issue of the Sabbath, like in the UK, was not without controversy, nor the companion issue of what to do with the old holy days of Roman Catholicism. Because of the complexity of this work it will likely not be published until early 2022 unless the work proceeds a pace faster than anticipated. The translation will be done by David C. Noe.