Monergism Books

Binding: Clothbound
Page Count: 1274
Publisher: Banner of Truth
ISBN#:  9780851517292

Availability: Will ship around November 30th.

Description: This two-volume set includes the following titles: 

Volume 1) D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The First Forty Years: 1899-1939
Volume 2) D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The Fight of Faith: 1939-1981

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The First Forty Years: 1899-1939
When Martyn Lloyd-Jones, physician, preacher and Christian leader, died in 1981, after more than 40 years in London, few knew the remarkable story of his formative earlier years, which, in this authorised biography, is now told for the first time. From his rural Welsh background to St Bartholomew's Hospital (where at the age of 23 he was Chief Clinical Assistant to Sir Thomas Horder, the King's Physician), then, suddenly at 27, to a struggling Calvinistic Methodist Mission Church in Aberavon, South Wales, he appears successively as schoolboy, dairyman's assistant, political enthusiast, debater, doctor, and finally Christian preacher.

This volume traces the unforgettable events of his first pastorate, his wider ministry in Wales (where, by 1933, the press reported, 'he draws thousands to hear his message in all parts of the Principality'), his first visits to North America, and finally his settlement at Westminster Chapel, London, on the eve of World War II. While some saw him as 'the modern Moody', and others as 'the last of the Calvinistic preachers', Iain H. Murray's work makes constant use of hitherto unpublished material, and is able to present Dr Lloyd-Jones' own view of his life and minstry.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The Fight of Faith: 1939-1981
The ministry of Martyn Lloyd-Jones at Westminster Chapel which began at the outbreak of World War II, was suddenly changed at the point at which this volume begins. With the congregation dramatically reduced, his hard work in the difficult War and post-War years became the preparation for his great influence in London in the fifties and sixties. But these pages trace his ministry into wider circles--to the Universities (where 'he taught a whole generation of Christian Union students to love doctrine and to be bold in declaring it'), to Europe, the United States, South Africa and ultimately, in his books, to the whole world.

This volume contains much source material now in print for the first time and will be a primary text on evangelicalism in the twentieth century. At all vital points Iain Murray, the authorised biographer, is able to give his subject's own understanding of what happened. But neither public ministry nor controversy dominate the story. There is much on Martyn Lloyd-Jones' personal life. The foremost impression left is of the overruling of divine providence and of the spiritual grace which shone in him as a Christian. Though in the eyes of other Christians he was 'full of faith and of the Holy Spirit', yet in his own eyes he was, 'nothing but an old sinner saved by the grace of God'.

"If D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones' life were a novel it would be panned by critics as too unrealistic. Because his life is a historical reality we are left to wonder at the providential energy that could have effected such an astonishing career...This book is an electrifying apologetic for the powerfully theologized pulpit emphases of the Reformers and Puritans."
--Christianity Today