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On Keeping the Heart is a sermon based on Proverbs 4:23, "Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life." In this treatise, the author focuses on illuminating, healing, and guarding the heart.

Benjamin B. Warfield (1851-1921) was Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He discusses the human authorship of the scriptures and points out the divine authorship behind the human. It ascribes to the authors of the books the influence of the Holy Spirit in their process of writing that the words they set down become the words of God.

The book is a history of the Western frontier at the end of the US Civil War. It covers the Sioux war that broke out in the Great Lakes region in detail, exploring the roots and results of the conflict.

In this short sermon, Thomas Boston set out the qualities of the God’s wrath. He claims that although eternal and dreadful, it contains no injustice. He argues that the Judge of all the earth can do no wrong.

This book was written by the Puritan Thomas Boston at the age of 22. The theme is based on the injunction of Christ to his disciples, to become "fishers of men".

Thomas Boston explains the first commandment as consisting of three parts: Knowing. Acknowledging. Worshipping and glorifying. He shows that every command has an affirmative part and a negative. The negative is included in the affirmative, and the affirmative in the negative.

Samuel Rutherford (c. 1600 – 1661) was a Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author, and one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly. Rutherford has been described as a "prince of letter writers" and was also known for devotional works like Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself which discusses the mercy of God.

The Crook in the Lot (1737) is a book about adversity. The three sections are based on Ecclesiastes 7:13, Proverbs 16:19, and 1 Peter 5:6. It is a helpful guide for dealing with the ups and downs of life.