Ref. Pubs. Cooperatives

Welcome to the

Reformed Publications

Cooperatives Site

Sponsored by:

Reformation Heritage Books

and

Solid Ground Christian Books

and the

Encyclopedia Puritannica Project

The cloke ... when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books ... — 2 Tim 4:13

Do you have a favorite old, Reformed, Sovereign Grace or Puritan book that you would like to see back in print as a newly re-typeset edition and/or incorporated into an electronic study tool, but you don't have either the time, the money or the technology / printing skills to make it happen?

Then consider nominating your book to be a "Campaign" in one of our publishing "Cooperatives," where Christians around the world can catch your vision and cooperate to help make your publishing dream come true!

On the other hand, perhaps you are just a reader and supporter of older, orthodox Christian literature who is interested in joining with like-minded believers world-wide in making more and more of such literature available. If so, please consider using this site to help efficiently reach this worthy goal.

Typical authors: Luther, Calvin, Bullinger

Typical authors: William Perkins, William Ames

Typical authors: Richard Hawker, William Jay, J. C. Ryle

Typical authors: John Owen, Thomas Goodwin

Typical authors: Bunyan, Benjamin Keach, John Gill, Spurgeon

Typical authors: Wilhelm aBrakel, Johannes Vanderkemp

Typical authors: S. Rutherford, T. Boston, Dabney, Boettner

This site is dedicated:

To the glory of the living and true God and His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ
To achieving greater like-mindedness in Christ among the Reformed churches
To unifying the branches of the Reformed Church in republishing good books from the past for the benefit of the whole Church
To enabling, concentrating and magnifying the efforts of diffuse and diverse individuals, churches and groups into a publishing whole which is greater than the sum of its parts
To establishing book publishing "Campaigns" that will allow Reformed Christians to anonymously cooperate in effectively and efficiently getting sound, older books made readily, inexpensively and attractively available
To creating and developing publishing "Cooperatives" which combine multiple individual book Campaigns undertaken by various Reformed churches

The Color-coding of Campaign Phases

The various phases (steps) of the book publishing Campaigns are color-coded, so that the users of this site will be able to monitor the progress of each individual campaign. The colors have the following meaning:

The Phase has
not started

The Phase is
in progress

The Phase has
been completed

In addition, phases #5 and #16 are funding phases for the publishing steps immediately to their right. The number followed by percent symbol (%) shows what percentage of the funding needed to further process the book has already been received.

What's Going On?

The purpose of this site is to unify, enable and motivate the various branches of the Reformed Church of our Lord Jesus Christ in the publishing of "old paths" Christian literature. We hope many precious books and other works of old may be resurrected and once again made readily available to the general public in low-cost and exciting new ways. Each electronic text that is created will be:

1) Slated for inclusion in a modern electronic Bible study tool, and

2) Made available to a book publisher for a newly re-typeset, easy-to-read edition in printed form.

It is also our hope that this site will serve as a publishing juggernaut for like-mindedness among Christ's churches which are committed to the biblically true, historic Reformations. This can happen more and more as individual believers, congregations, denominations and associations, spread throughout the whole world, begin to acquaint each other with the godly writings they value and as we collectively push each publication campaign up to the front lines of our Holy War. The spiritual battle for our families, churches, towns, provinces, states and countries are all too real and we can learn from the teachers gifted by God in the past who passed through the same fiery conflicts.

The "Cooperatives"

This site is divided up into "cooperatives" based on a rough classification of the authors of particular works. Men are born and die at "inconvenient" times with respect to historical time-frames and of course, they do sometimes change ecclesiastical affiliations during their lives. Therefore, when a given author might arguably fit into more than one category, this site's sponsors reserve the right to make "finicky" judgment calls.

Users of this site should feel free to recommend new Cooperatives for addition to this site.

Each Cooperative is further broken down into "Campaigns." Each campaign represents a book or other work that needs to be brought out of obscurity, or needs to be converted out of "olde Englifhe," or needs to have its 19th century garb refurbished.

Each Campaign is then organized into a (mostly) sequential series of steps or "phases" that are needed to bring an old book into the electronic age in a faithful and efficient way. For example, a work must be nominated ($25 - USA Dollars, tax-deductible), then source content must be acquired, and next the work must be prepared for scanning, it has to be scanned, etc.

How to Start Your Own Book Publishing Campaign!

Users wishing to begin a Campaign for a book of their choosing are encouraged to send in an email with their recommendation. With each recommendation, please adequately identify both the title and its author and feel free to also suggest a Cooperative home for the work. At least 75% of the content of recommended books should be of general interest to the entire Reformed Church. The sponsors will evaluate the recommendation and if it is accepted, the work can then be "nominated" with a support contribution of $25.00 or more (tax-deductible in USA). The nominated work would then be added to an appropriate Cooperative where the whole Reformed Church can take note and, hopefully, take interest in moving the work through its Campaign "phases". The nominating party (and others) can be as active as they want to be in promoting the development of their nomination.

It is our profound hope that the diffuse efforts of many, many Reformed individuals, churches and organizations, once aggregated from around the world, will result in a massive Reformed publishing "phalanx" that can rival any publisher on the planet. Even if individuals can only support the Cooperatives at $5 per year or only 1 hour of volunteer time each month, they can have a large impact when their efforts are combined with the efforts of a number of other similar individuals.

Individuals who are unable to provide any material support can still do the most valuable thing, which is to pray for the blessing of our God on this project.

With good will toward all men, we trust and pray that this effort may be to the glory of the only living and true, triune God and for the good of His Church!

The Reformed Publishing Co-ops' Newsletter

A periodic newsletter of the Co-ops and its sponsor's activities is available for those users who would like to receive it. The newsletter will contain information on important activity within the Cooperatives site as well as related news regarding the site's sponsors. In this way, users can keep informed about progress without having to visit the site repeatedly or keep their own tracking information. Users may subscribe and unsubscribe to the newsletter at anytime. (The email addresses provided will not be sold or given to any other entity. Even the sponsors will not use them for purposes not directly related to the Co-ops). Users are welcome to contribute articles for the newsletter about books that have been nominated into one of the Publishing Co-ops.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. — John 8:32

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