Standing on shoulders
Library
The shelf behind the writing: confessions I hold, dogmatics I am working through, and old books that keep proving they were written for ordinary men.
Confessional standards
What I hold, not merely admire
The Westminster Confession of Faith
Westminster Assembly
1646
The Larger & Shorter Catechisms
Westminster Assembly
1647
The Canons of Dort
Synod of Dort
1619
The Heidelberg Catechism
Ursinus & Olevianus
1563
Dogmatics & systematics
Slow shelf — measured in years
Reformed Dogmatics, Vols. 1–4
Herman Bavinck
1895
Institutes of the Christian Religion
John Calvin
1559
Institutes of Elenctic Theology
Francis Turretin
1679
A Body of Divinity
Thomas Watson
1692
Practical & pastoral
The shelf that draws blood
The Mortification of Sin in Believers
John Owen
1656
The Reformed Pastor
Richard Baxter
1656
The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan
1678
The Godly Home
Richard Baxter
1673