Jeremiah & Lamentations, Volume 5: 48-50 Various To write such a book

To write such a book as this demands special gifts

Each page magnifies the Christ of the cross

This Complete Armour is beyond all others a preacher’s book: I should think that more discourses have been suggested by it than by any other uninspired volume

Arthur Rendle Short and his son John Rendle-Short the author of this book

‘there is no time for serving the Lord like the very earliest days of youth

Jeremiah & Lamentations, Volume 5: 48-50 Various To write such a bookI confess that at the outset I was put off by the fear of being thought rash and arrogant if I should attempt such an undertaking after so many excellent works. So wrote John Calvin (1509 1564) in the dedicatory letter of his commentary on Romans, his first printed exposition. The initial hesitation overcome, Calvin went on to produce a commentary series covering much of Scripture, one which is, in words of William Cunningham, not only superior to any