Thomas Watson’s published works, collected here for the first time in a uniform and newly-typeset edition, indicate that he exercised an outstandingly helpful pulpit ministry. His material is simultaneously full of matter and of interest. Reading him some three centuries after the close of his ministry, we can sense his gift of communicating rich biblical and doctrinal truth without burdening his hearers with the sheer density of his material.

This edition follows the editorial policy of George Rogers, principal of Spurgeon’s Pastors’ College, who prepared the 1869 edition of Body of Divinity. Also, where it was thought necessary, translations of foreign words and phrases have been added, as well as footnotes that help to elucidate the text. May the ‘happy union of sound doctrine, heart-searching experience, and practical wisdom’ make these volumes useful to all who read them.