Studies in Puritanism
- Are we Puritans?
- Studies in Puritanism
- The Pride of Modern Calvinism The Humility of Puritanism
- Puritanism Today
- The Puritan Way
- Are We Offering Violence?
- Picking the Baton Back Up
- Are You a Puritan At Heart?
- The Maturity of Puritanism
- Puritans, Precisionists, Neo-puritans
- Sola-Scriptura? Is Scripture Sufficient?
Tis a little after ten pm here, and I was putting the trash out for the collection tomorrow. I keep my trash cans in the cupboard to the right of the front door, where my electric and gas metres are so that in high winds they don't get blow away. HOwever, I saw a big white sack. And it was to find the postman had left my order from Reformation Heritage books in there.
What a nice surprise at ten pm. I was very blessed to find these titles and often the titles that RHB has are not easily available over here. However, for any British readers, if at all possible it will pay to buy inland because Royal Mail has started to charge horrendous import duty charges. I've had two charges this week, one for health products, and this one for the books, and between them it was almost sixty UK pounds. They seem to base the charge on how much the goods are worth, as each other was about the same price to buy and each import charge exactly the same amount.
Most people who have read my blog for any length of time know I love teo study the puritans and puritanism, and these were the title from Reformation Heritage books:
Scottish Puritans in two volumes--select biographies
Reformed Confessions of the 16th and 17th Centuries in English Translation
History of the Puritans in 3 Volumes by Daniel Neal
So all in all, a very profitable trip to put the trash out!
Filed under Books, The Puritan Way by on Apr 22nd, 2009. 
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I saw this note the other day since my passion is also books – sometime I will have to send you my list of books in my library and the story behind it. But I wanted to share this link with you in case you were unaware of it and especially if the postage cost appears to be based on value:
http://www.paperbackswap.com/index.php
Once you sign up you list 10 books you want to trade. Once listed you can then order 2 from anyone who is a member. Once you send one of yours off, you can order another. The more you put on the system and ship the more you can order. My co-worker gets his textbooks that way. Essentially free but for postage. Now your first thought is – but I want to keep my books. Here is how I handle that. I have a local bookstore that takes in trade books and gets so many duplicates that he trashes them. Rather than him throw some of the more popular read ones away, I take them and use them. What I take are paperbacks (light). Sci Fi is always good. What I order are hardbacks (preferred) or paperbacks in all areas of religion – you would be surprised what is out there. My mailing cost is therefore low media mail price.
Oh – Here is the facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/PaperBackSwap/9696626756
Thanks, I'll bear this in mind. Tend to have more books than I am likely to have chance or time to read at the moment, and only live in a one bedroom apt, so space is also an issue. Books I buy, I would not give away or sell, for a million bucks, however!
I truly understand about not giving away or selling. I have that same issue that is why I get the popular rejects and post so they get sent off quickly. My book story is this: I have so many commentaries, theological, cults & Roman Catholic, Archaeological, Puritan and misc that the only room in the house big enough to hold all the books was the master bedroom. It contains 10 bookcases 3 feet wide or more 7 feet tall with books on top (8 foot ceilings) all shelves double stacked, no less than 7 shelves per bookcase. Plus stacks of boxes of books on the floor. My wonderful wife who suggested we move out of our bedroom said I was a hoarder. I don't try and read them all, but use them as a reference source for articles and teaching. Because of the wide variety of discussions I get dragged into, I have a wide variety of source material.