Bøger af David H J Gay

David Gay writes: 'It's a bit of a leap, I know, but imagine you've been transported back in time - 2000 years, no less - and you're sitting in a hired upper room in Jerusalem - a family room. You have joined a Jewish nomadic preacher and his Jewish friends, his followers, his disciples, who have taken this room in order to celebrate the high Jewish feast of Passover. Naturally - that's why they're here - their Jewish minds are full of what happened at the original Passover, well over a thousand years before. The upper-room event is recorded in Matthew 26:17-29; Mark 14:12-25; Luke 22:7-23; John 13 - 17. [I include the preacher's prayer because it contains vital development of his teaching in the upper room]. As you can see, all four Gospel writers recorded the episode, and that, in itself, surely marks the lasting impression it must have made upon those who were there'.Having started thus, the author proceeds to explore the significance of the upper-room event. As his subtitle puts it, it was epoch-changing. Why not dip into his book? The author hopes that if you have not seen the significance of that final Passover, his work might prove a help. An audiobook of the author reading this work can be found on his sermonaudio.com page.

This volume contains another twenty-two of David H.J.Gay's articles on various subjects: Three Ekklēsia Consequences of Augustine; Begg on Baptism: Playing with Fire; Believers One and All; Paul's Breathtaking Assertion; Census Shock!; Evangelical Christendom Confusion; The Law of Diminishing Returns; Flogging a Dead Horse; Salvation in Hebrews; Ignored Intelligence: The Cost; The Case of the Curious Blind Spot; Preacher: Postman or Pleader?; Touching the Untouchable; The Question Which Cannot Be Ducked; A Disaster Averted: Romans 14:5-6; Christmas and Romans 14:5-6; Purim and Christmas; Reformed Infant Baptismal Regeneration; Two Phrases to be Reckoned With; National Anthem Verses; A Tale of Two Coronations: Farcical & Real; An Appeal to the Reformed.A free audiobook of the authot reading this work can be found on his sermonaudio.com page.

This book should be uncomfortable reading; it is meant to be. David Gay has written it hoping it will lead to lead to radical change where necessary. Basing his remarks on 1 Cor. 4:20 and 2 Tim. 3:5, he speaks of the way in which two aspects of contemporary culture - namely, talk (or chat) and image - affect Christendom in general, and professing believers in particular. Affect? It is his conviction that chat and image have played havoc with - and are increasingly playing havoc with - true spirituality, with the result that, for a growing number, profession of Christ amounts to little more than a veneer, a matter of chat and image. Such is his reading of much of contemporary church life. Hence this title: Veneer or Reality? The Question for Christendom. A free audiobook of the author reading this work can be found on his sermonaudio.com page.

Anne Dutton transgressed 18th-century culture when she, as a woman, had the 'audacity' to publish theological works, largely in the form of letters, but many in her day found great profit in what she wrote. More important, even though there are big differences between the 18th and 21st centuries, since the eternal, spiritual verities concerning God, man and eternity are the same, her work has abiding value. Though she did not get everything right, David Gay is convinced Dutton had 'the root of the matter' in her, and he is persuaded that believers today badly need to hear what she spelled out, and so he has published this small work to let her speak today in order that believers might weigh her words in the light of Scripture. The question is: Do we have ears to hear, a heart to love, and a will to obey what God teaches in his word?

David Gay has abridged his 'Exalting Christ: Thomas Collier on the New Covenant' to produce this shorter work for those who might be daunted by the amount of material in the larger volume. Christ, fulfilling the old covenant, established the new covenant. And new-covenant theology is nothing other than the theology of the new covenant, the gospel. So those who think that new-covenant theology was invented in the 1980s could not be more wrong. It is actually older than the hills, having originated in God's eternal decree. What is more, in covenant-theology's heyday - the late-puritan era in England - not a few preachers and writers resolutely stood against the tide to set out the glories of the new covenant. One such was the 17th-century Baptist, Thomas Collier. He has much to teach us about those scriptural doctrines which are often dismissed out of hand today, even though they are so desperately needed. Gay hopes that this little work will enable Collier's words to travel far and do much good, encouraging many believers to search the Scriptures - not the Confessions - for themselves. A free audiobook is available at davidhjgay.com

Sandy what? Never heard of it! Perhaps not. But you certainly have met it. In its incipient form it is the greatest blight to afflict the preaching of the gospel today. David Gay has got to grips with this pernicious error, and his book should be of vital interest to every believer. Michael Haykin: 'This is an extremely important book. Cogently and compellingly it refutes a core error that is widespread in far too many contemporary evangelical circles... As David Gay demonstrates, true conversion is rooted in a radical change of the affections of the heart and manifest in doxological theology and a lifestyle that lives for the glory of God. In a day when the Christian faith is increasingly marginalized in Western society, we need a clear idea of the faith for which we need to be contending. This book is an enormous help to that end'. A free audio book of the author reading this title can be found at davidhjgay.com

How can new-covenant theology be right - when the psalmist spoke so highly about the law? How can you continue to assert that believers are no longer under the law of Moses, when spiritual men - in the Bible! - wrote and spoke so glowingly about the law? Psalm 119:97 springs to mind: 'Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long'. Here we meet with a spiritual man telling us he loves the law, telling us he continually meditates upon it, and yet you say the law is fulfilled and therefore abolished in Christ! How can this be? Such was the friendly enquiry which David Gay faced after publishing his book: Christ is All: No Sanctification By The Law. Stirred by the question, he produced this slim volume to show that Psalm 119, and a host of similar passages, far from damaging the original claim, actually enforce it. As always: Christ is all!

'Justification by faith - by faith alone - on the basis of God's grace alone is a key gospel doctrine. Indeed, with Martin Luther, I would argue that it is the cardinal doctrine of the gospel. Naturally, therefore, the devil can never leave it alone; he makes sure that it is constantly under attack - remorselessly undermining it. He has been engaged in his nefarious practice right from the time the apostles, and never has he let up! Nor will he until the end of the age (2 Thess. 2:3-12; 1 Tim. 4:1; 2 Tim. 3:1; 2 Pet. 3:3). He has met with considerable success, and continues to do so - not least in that there are grim signs that the Apostolic Fathers and their doctrines are coming into vogue. Moreover, not a few former Evangelicals and Reformed are defecting to Rome or the Orthodox Church, both of which Churches are heavily dependent on the Apostolic (and later) Fathers. I deplore this rising interest in the Fathers, for they gravely impaired the doctrine of justification, the consequences of which are with us still. And all this explains why I publish this designedly-simple booklet on the work of Thomas F.Torrance: "The Doctrine of Grace in the Apostolic Fathers." Torrance's book is invaluable in this area... By this annotated digest of Torrance's work, I will set out how the Apostolic Fathers warped the doctrine of justification by faith. Consequently, to return to the Apostolic Fathers - which, as I have explained, not a few are doing - is to take a fatal step over this cardinal doctrine of the gospel. It really is that serious! I write, bearing in mind the apostle's injunction to Timothy when faced with apostasy in his day: "If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed" (1 Tim. 4:6)'. So writes David Gay as he opens this booklet. For a free audio book of the author reading this title, please go to davidhjgay.com

I have completely re-set my 'Particular Redemption and The Free Offer' to make it easier for the reader. I keep the same description as for that volume: The Bible teaches: (i) Christ died only for the elect; (ii) God offers Christ to all.This looks like a first-class contradiction.Many think they have found a way to avoid it. Arminians deny the first statement; hyper-Calvinists, the second. But still the Bible teaches both.Most Calvinists take another route. They use the formula: 'Christ's death - sufficient for all, effective only for the elect'. In this, some follow Moïse Amyraut and say that Christ died provisionally for all, but effectively only for the elect. Others follow John Owen and say that although Christ's death is sufficient for all on account of who he is, nevertheless it was intended and effective only for the elect. In this way, both think they justify the free offer in light of particular redemption. But both are wrong.The Bible does not try to solve the seeming paradox. It never uses 'the sufficiency formula'. It simply states that Christ died for the elect, but even so it commands all sinners to repent and believe - promising them Christ and salvation if they do.While this book does not promise an easy read, it will repay careful study. And the subject is worthy of such. Above all, its author's aim is to glorify God by stimulating the wider, more passionate, and less-inhibited preaching of the free offer to sinners by those who rightly hold to particular redemption.Michael Haykin: 'Impressive in its discussion of theological perspectives and fully competent in its handling of Scripture, here is an excellent resource for thinking through the nature of biblical evangelism and how it relates to the scriptural theme of the sovereignty of God in salvation, especially as the latter relates to the death of Christ. May those who are tempted to cool their passion for the salvation of sinners in light of convictions about Christ's redeeming work read this book and have that passion re-ignited by the fiery light of God's truth'. A free download of the author reading the book is available on sermonaudio.com

The earliest and most sustained attack upon the early ekklēsia came from Judaisers - false brothers, pseudadelphoi, Paul called them (Gal. 2:4; 2 Cor. 11:26) - men who wanted to bring back the law of Moses and impose it on Gentile believers, even though Christ has fulfilled the Mosaic covenant and brought to its God-determined end, rendering it obsolete (John 1:17; Heb. 8:13). Paul, seeing the disaster to which this was already leading, confronted these law-men - one might say, single-handedly confronted them - and, in defeating their arguments, laid down for all time the one-and-only gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Satan, however, realising what a powerful tool he had in his hands, has never ceased to encourage new generations of law-teachers to promulgate their doctrine, which, as always, ruins the gospel, deceives sinners into false hopes about salvation, and leads believers away from Christ and into slavery. In this book, David Gay examines Paul's confrontation of the pseudadelphoi. But his concern does not stop there. Although believers today do not have Paul's authority, nevertheless they have 'to contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints' (Jude 3). Law-teaching is rampant. It dominates Romanism, the Mormons, the Jehovah Witness system, the Hebrew Roots Movement, and the like. But the canker comes closer to home than that; much closer. Evangelicals are not free of law-teaching; indeed, the Reformed openly avow the law-teaching which was set in concrete by John Calvin. While not in any way questioning their motive, in publishing his book it is the Reformed that Gay especially has in mind. He has written in hope that his words might encourage at least some of them to think again. In addition, of course, he hopes it will prove helpful to believers who wish to know more of this vital matter.An audiobook of the author reading this work can be found on his sermonaudio.com page.

The biblical doctrines of resurrection and kingdom do not play the essential role in modern evangelical church-life that they played in the early ekklēsia. David Gay argues that the first believers found the resurrection and the kingdom vital in their confrontation of the surrounding hostile cultures with the gospel, indispensable in their own progressive sanctification, and central to their consolation and comfort in face of persecution and, above all, death. Christendom - surprise, surprise! - has played havoc with all this. Gay, aiming for a recovery of the experience of the early ekklēsia, has set out what he sees as the new-covenant position. You may not agree with all he says, but it should make you think; it might even challenge some pet, traditional beliefs and practices. You have been warned!An audiobook of the author reading this work can be found on his sermonaudio.com page.

John Calvin inherited the doctrines of the medieval Roman Church. In particular, he inherited that Church's view of the law of God, given to Israel through Moses on Sinai. Calvin took the Church's teaching on this, as it had been developed by Thomas Aquinas, and tweaked it to produce a Reformed threefold-use of the law in the new covenant. Some Anabaptists and others resisted him at the time, but they were heavily out-gunned, and Calvin's system has dominated the Reformed and evangelical world ever since. Millions, who have never read a word of Calvin, many of whom would shudder at the very mention of his name, nevertheless, are, on the law, Calvinists - even though they may not know it. David Gay contends that Calvin was wrong on the law, and this has had serious consequences. Gay is concerned, in particular, with the Reformer's third use of the law - which is, said Calvin, to sanctify the believer. Gay disagrees. In this book, he probes Calvin's system, exposes it to the light of Scripture, and shows where it departs from the New Testament. He also demonstrates the utter inadequacy of the escape routes used by the Reformed to get round awkward passages of Scripture. Turning from the negative, Gay then looks at every major New Testament passage dealing with the believer and the law. Next, he sets out scriptural teaching on the true way of sanctification for the believer. This, he shows, is not by the law of Moses; rather, it is by the law of Christ in the hands of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, as Gay makes clear, the law of Christ is, ultimately, Christ himself. Hence his chosen title: 'Christ is All'. Having set out the believer's rule, he then answers seven objections levelled against it. Gay does not pretend that this book is an easy read. But he hopes it will prove a profitable read. And even if others do not agree with him on every point, until they have read what he has to say, it can hardly be fair, can it, to dismiss him out of hand as an antinomian? A free download of the author reading the book is available on sermonaudio.com

This volume contains another ten of David Gay's articles on various aspects of the new covenant: Antinomianism: Reformed and Mystical; Believers Under the Law of Christ; John Berridge On Progressive Sanctification; Christ the Covenant?; Decision Time for New-Covenant Theologians; Glass Eyes and Wooden Legs in 17th Century New England: A Warning; Jonathan Edwards, Infant Baptism and Church Membership: A Warning; Martyn & Bethan, Infant Baptism and Church Membership: A Warning; The Place of 'Place' in the New Covenant; Into the Lions' Den: Christ's Active Obedience Re-Visited.

This volume contains another ten of David Gay's articles on various aspects of the new covenant: Priesthood: Our Need, God's Provision; The Rise of the Anabaptists; 'A Threefold Cord'; A Thanksgiving Day Thought; Fourfold Justification; Liberty or Bondage: Sarah or Hagar?; What Does It Mean to Be a Priest?; New-Covenant Priests: Who Are They?; The Abrahamic Covenant; What Price Antinomianism? In his Foreword, John Dunn writes: 'Gay's... articles are written without pretence, without presumption, without desire to blindly maintain the unquestioned status quo, and with a refreshing and sincere willingness to rediscover the first-century context of the apostolic new-covenant Scriptures'.

This volume contains another dozen of David Gay's articles on various aspects of the new covenant: 'A People Not To Be Forgotten'; 'Law-less or Lawless?'; '"No Confession? Nothing to Debate!"'; 'One Command or Many in One?'; 'Misleading, Sad, Revealing: "Relevant Today" by Jeremy Brooks'; 'A Brief Response to Prince Charles'; 'Robert Browne: Thinking the Unthinkable'; 'The Obedience of Faith'; 'The Reformed and Baptismal Regeneration'; 'To Whom Did God Give the Law?'; 'Unasked Questions'; 'Where Will It Stop?'

David Gay has written this booklet as a follow-up to his 'Fivefold Sanctification', in which he set out the five aspects of sanctification: purposed, accomplished, positional, progressive and absolute. Why this second title? Gay is convinced that many believers do not appreciate their glorious standing in Christ - their positional sanctification - and, as a result, do not consciously enjoy the benefits which flow to them through it. To try to rectify this sad lack, Gay concentrates on two leading uses of the believer's positional sanctification; namely, the part it plays in both the believer's assurance and his progressive sanctification. The first is important because many believers, alas, do not experience biblical assurance. Instead, taking the Reformed line, they look to their works under the law for their assurance. And as for the second, some teach that progressive sanctification does not exist! Gay hopes his booklet may do something to help believers on both counts.A free download of the author reading the book is available on sermonaudio.com

It is the late fifteenth century. The medieval Roman Church, collapsing under the weight of its own corruption, has, thus far, resisted calls from within for serious reformation, and resisted with barbaric cruelty. John Wycliffe has been dead for a hundred years, his bones having been burned in 1427, and Lollardy has been crushed (yet not exterminated - 'heresy' simmers just beneath the surface). But Rome has more to contend with than internal pressures for reform. Christendom is besieged by an enemy from the east and south. The consequences of the papal schism have so weakened the papacy that the decadent Church is impotent in the face of the persistent and growing threat of Islam. So much so, Christendom has been banished to the north-western extremity of the known world, the Church long since having been driven out of Africa by the warring hordes of Mohammed, his followers then moving on into Spain - where, for seven hundred years, they have kept their hold. Constantinople fell to the Saracen in 1453. Venice and Rome are threatened. And Christendom has suffered all this, despite the treasure in blood and gold which it has lavished on the Crusades. In the late fifteenth century, Islam can boast five times - five times - as many adherents as Christianity. Christianity is doomed. Or so it must have seemed. But... But God... God does not need mortals - but he usually chooses to work through men and women to accomplish his purposes. So it was in the late fifteenth century. One of the men God used at that time is the man I want to speak to you about - John Colet.

Get Galatians 3:23-25 right, and Galatians as a whole falls into place. Get Galatians in place, and the theology of the new covenant is well on the way to speaking with the power it ought. Get these verses wrong, however, and grievous consequences follow. But, alas, many do get these verses wrong. And the reasons for it are not far to seek. First, this passage has suffered more than most from exceedingly bad translation, both from fatal insertions into the text by translators, and from the change of meaning of words over time. Secondly, too many read Galatians 3:23-25 determined to fit Paul's words into their covenant theology. David Gay has published this booklet, hoping to do what he can to clear away these two grievous hindrances to a proper understanding of Scripture, and so let as many as possible discover what the theology of the new covenant really is. Do not miss the order: Scripture then theology. Not the other way about.

Saving faith! Why publish a booklet on saving faith? Isn't saving faith a basic truth at the heart of the Christian life? Yes, of course. And it is for that very reason that David Gay has gone into print on the subject. He contends that not a few contemporary preachers are failing to call for saving faith when, in fact, they think they are. Consequently, it is a fearful thought that their hearers might think they are exercising saving faith when they are not. They believe, yes, but not with saving faith. And since eternal consequences of life and death hang upon the issue, Gay has produced this small work. Clearly, the material it contains should be of vital interest to all who are concerned with the eternal salvation of sinners - both themselves and others. A free audio book of the author reading this title can be found at davidhjgay.com

'Edward Miall? Never heard of him!' No, I dare say not. But David Gay, convinced that what Miall wrote in the 1840s merits serious consideration by believers today, has published his comments on copious extracts from Miall. 'The 1840s? What relevance can such a work have today?' Why not put it to the test and read what Gay has produced? To whet your appetite, here are the relevant chapter headings: Miall on Man-Centred 'Religion'; Miall on Motive; Miall on Sabbath Enforcement; Miall on Assent; Miall on Clericalism; Miall on Buildings and Meetings.

'The priesthood of all believers' is a biblical doctrine. Sadly, Satan has laid his meddling fingers on this glorious gospel principle and twisted it to the ruin of many. How? For a start, the overwhelming majority of believers, for all practical purposes, believe in the priesthood of NO believers. Oh, I know we frequently parrot the phrase 'the priesthood of all believers', and, of course, it features in most of our Confessions of Faith: 'We believe in the priesthood of all believers'. Oh, yes. But too often it has become a mere slogan, a mantra. A form of words without real content or implication, it makes no practical difference to most of us whatsoever. The result is tragic. 'The priesthood of all believers' is a neglected, poor relation of the Christian religion, rarely discussed, let alone thought about, least of all acted upon. Alas, 'the priesthood of no believers' is the reality for many. It gets worse. Worse? Yes, indeed. Millions really believe in the priesthood of SOME believers. The truth is, where this is so, in each church it has become the priesthood of ONE believer! Really? Yes, for millions - adherents of the Church of Rome and the Church of England, chief among them. But not only they! No, indeed! Most evangelicals (not excluding the Reformed) hold to the priesthood of some believers. Oh, yes they do! And all the time, the New Testament teaches the priesthood of ALL believers. David Gay has written this small work to help believers avoid a trap they often seem to fall into. What 'trap' is that? Gay wants us (he includes himself!) to stop intoning the phrase 'the priesthood of all believers', and then, having touched our cap at it, carrying on as though it meant nothing at all. In short, he wants us to use the phrase, understand what it means, and then live it out in daily experience. A free download of the author reading the book is available on sermonaudio.com

In writing about the sabbath, I know I am taking a huge risk. In other books, I have pressed buttons of a vermilion hue, but this tends to the infra-red. By linking 'sabbath' and 'questions', in the eyes of many I will have put myself beyond the pale before I start. It will confirm what they have suspected for a long time: 'David Gay is an antinomian. Have nothing to do with him or his works'. Well, I am more than happy to be accused of antinomianism for preaching the gospel with apostolic freeness. After all, Paul was accused of it (Rom. 3:5-8; 6:1). Consequently, I say to those who accuse me of antinomianism over the gospel: 'You fail to preach the gospel as it ought to be preached. You mix law and gospel'. But what about my view of the law? I have made my position clear. I am anti-Reformed on the law. I do not accept Calvin's threefold use of the law. But to call me an antinomian for saying this is a mark of ignorance. Or worse! Read my works and see. Listen to my sermons. I am not anti-law. I am pro-gospel, pro-Christ - for justification, for assurance, for sanctification, for liberation, for glorification. Christ is all (Col. 3:11). But what about the sabbath? This, of course, is the reddest of all red buttons. And I press it. I do so because a friend (who reads my works and hears me preach) asked for help because Iain Murray's book 'Evangelical Holiness' raised problems for her, problems she could not answer. In writing something for her, it struck me it might help others. Hence this publication. All I ask is that you read this work with an open Bible. Is it too much to ask that you start with an open mind? Above all, be a Berean.

Richard Baxter said John Bunyan was an antinomian. Was he? Again: Was Bunyan a proto new-covenant theologian on the covenants and the law? David Gay, having examined these claims, here sets out his conclusions with the evidence for them. While Bunyan said many good things on both these topics, by no stretch of the imagination can he be described as a fully-fledged new-covenant theologian. But neither did he toe the Reformed line in these matters. He did not tick all the orthodox boxes. He was his own man. But as Gay writes: 'Why bother about what John Bunyan thought and wrote, or did not think and write on the law?... Does it matter? In a very real sense, no, of course it does not. I am not desperately interested in John Bunyan for John Bunyan's sake... But what I am interested in is the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Interested in the gospel? I am consumed by it! So, in the end, it does not matter a great deal what John Bunyan said or thought... What does Scripture say? That is the question!' As a result, Gay hopes his book, though not an easy read, will make a valuable contribution to the contemporary debate on the believer and the law. George Platt: 'I commend to you this work from David Gay, and trust that you will find it as profitable as I did. It will demonstrate the many ways in which Bunyan's theology was strong, and has much to say to us today, whilst also revealing the ways in which Bunyan was a theologian of his time who wasn't always able to break away from the dominant system of his day. Let this be a lesson to us all today to ask ourselves what our own "blind spots" might be and where we might be slaves of our own system instead of letting the Bible shape our thoughts however it will'.

The sabbath is the reddest of all red buttons in the current debate about the law. Many believers think that the sabbath has been changed from the seventh day of the week to the first, and that all believers are obliged to keep it. Indeed, many argue that all men should keep the sabbath, since God gave it to Adam. Warning: You should get this only if you can stand and want lots of extracts! If you can't and don't, get the 'Sabbath Questions' only. David Gay argues that this is wrong, wrong according to Scripture. God did not command Adam to keep the sabbath. God gave the sabbath to the Jews in the wilderness at the same time as giving them the manna, setting it in stone at Sinai as the special, distinguishing marker for Israel in the old covenant. That covenant lasted until Christ, when he fulfilled it, and so rendered it obsolete. Believers, however, do have a sabbath. Their sabbath is Christ, their rest is not a weekly rest but their abiding spiritual rest in Christ, culminating in their eternal rest in glory. In this volume, Gay fully explores these matters and substantiates his claims. He writes: 'This volume is intended to be used as a working document to supply fuller notes and annotated extracts for my "Sabbath Questions: An open letter to Iain Murray", and should be read in conjunction with that book'. Warning: You should get this only if you can stand and want lots of extracts! If you can't and don't, get the 'Sabbath Questions' only.

This book will not appeal to every Christian. It is, after all, a polemical work, designed to explore infant baptism and expose it as destructive of the gospel. And it raises important questions: What is a Christian? How does one become a Christian? What is a church? How does one become a member? And, above all, what of the eternal consequences of baby-sprinkling in the name of Christ?Some believers don

This volume contains another eighteen of David Gay's articles on various aspects of the new covenant: 'Stop Press! No Law for Believers! Really?'; '"Against Such Things There Is No Law"'; 'Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and New-Covenant Theology'; 'Observations on a Colloquy'; 'An Invaluable Insight from Richard Dawkins'; 'Progressive Sanctification: A Matter of Eternal Life or Death'; 'Silence Is Golden?'; 'Words Have Power'; 'Peter Masters' Muddle over the Covenants Part 1'; 'Peter Masters' Muddle over the Covenants Part 2'; 'The Believer and the Law of Christ in Deut. 30, Rom. 10?'; 'What God Has Joined... Covenant and Law Inseparable'; 'Thoughts on James 4:11-12'; 'Thoughts on Isaiah 24:5'; 'Thoughts on Isaiah 33:22'; 'A Lesson from William Tyndale'; 'The Unbeliever's Lament'; 'Arrogant Atheism Answered'. A free audiobook of the author reading this title may be found at davidhjgay.com

News headline: 'Humpty Dumpty Strikes Again!'. What's that? 'Humpty Dumpty Strikes Again - in the Church!'. Let me re-phrase it: 'Believers Sustain Big Losses by Changing the Meaning of Bible Words'. Alice was confused. Humpty Dumpty explained: 'When I use a word', he said, 'it means just what I choose it to mean; neither more nor less'. Ah, that makes it clear! Does it? When Humpty Dumpty gets to work on a Bible word, trouble always follows - and with a capital 'T'. Sad to say, Humpty Dumpty has been very busy these past two thousand years, and many Bible words have suffered at his hand. Much harm has resulted. In this book, the words David Gay has in mind are 'pastor', 'minister', 'clergy' and 'ordain'. Good Bible words, all of them. But did you realise that the overwhelming majority of Christians don't use these Bible words the way the Bible does? Rather, they use them the way Humpty Dumpty invented for them. Oh, Humpty Dumpty didn't do it himself. No. He used some very learnèd and clever gentlemen to do the job for him - the Fathers. And a proper thorough job they made of it, too. Moreover, their followers are still at it. Indeed, many who ought to know better are driving headlong back to the Fathers. Yes, they are! What did the Fathers do? Why did they do it? And where have we ended up? What have we lost? Who is carrying on their work to this very day? Why not read David Gay's book and find out? Why not find out if Humpty Dumpty has misled you? Why not find out if he has robbed you of some biblical truths and practices? A free download of the author reading the book is available on sermonaudio.com

David Gay writes: 'No one should be so foolish as to think that because I have published this small volume of extracts on the new covenant and associated topics drawn from the works of Robert Govett that I endorse everything Govett ever wrote. On many things I differ from him. I do not even endorse everything he wrote on the new covenant and the law! Even so, Govett said some powerful and pertinent things on both, and since I have tried in my own works to further the recovery of the full liberty of the gospel, I am pleased to be able to produce this little work, and so let Govett speak to a wider audience than he does at present, hoping to encourage many to go back to the Scriptures and search out these things for themselves... Govett is worth listening to. Don't take my word for it. Bear in mind the opinion of C.H.Spurgeon. He thought more highly of Govett's works than I do! He declared: "Mr Govett wrote a hundred years before his time, and the day will come when his works will be treasured as sifted gold". Well... perhaps not all of them! But, to say the least of it, what I have selected and now publish from the works of Govett merits serious thought'.

Despite the confident assertions of the Reformed Confessions, and the dogmatism of theologians, many believers have serious misgivings about their sabbatarianism. Indeed, more than care to admit it are prone to anxiety about their actual observance of the day. At the other end of the spectrum, many believers have no idea how to apply the fourth commandment to themselves in the new covenant. The great casualty in all this is Christ, particularly the rest he offers sinners in the gospel. David Gay, in order to do what he can to rectify this sad state of affairs, has published this booklet on William Wales Horne's sermon on Isaiah 58:13-14, 'The True Sabbath', which Wales preached in 1810, and in which he argued that Christ is the believer's true sabbath. Gay hopes that by allowing Horne to speak today in modern language, many will find that this little work will do them much spiritual good. A free audiobook of this title read by the author is available at davidhjgay.com

This volume contains a dozen of David Gay's articles on various aspects of the new covenant: Assurance Instead of Doubt; Covenant Theology Tested; Gadsby's Questions for Law Men; Questions for Sabbatarians; The Invisible 'But' of John 1:17; The Law and the Confessions; The Prophets and the New Covenant; The Law on the Believer's Heart; The Law the Believer's Rule?; The Priesthood of All Believers; The Two Ministries; Three Verses Misunderstood. In his Foreword, Moe Bergeron writes: 'David H.J.Gay... stands out as a writer who does not hesitate to invite others to openly critique his work. He is anxious to know what God has said. His desire is to rightly discern the word of truth. This is why I cheer [his] efforts... Read his work and be challenged'. A free audio book of this title is on davidhjgay.com