"The Puritan Pulpit Commentary" - In the Works.

[davejonescue]

Hello all. I am starting a new project, Lord willing, that will take the 1,600 or so Puritan and Non-Conformists sermons; and create a Puritan sermon commentary. Right now I am calling it "The Puritan Pulpit Commentary." With 1,600 sermons, a lot of the Bible should be covered, hopefully. This is really the only way I can see to getting close to an actual Puritan Commentary, without simply taking whole commentaries written by Puritans and stacking them. I am very grateful, as Zotero takes a brunt of the work out of it organization wise. It will be offered in digital first; but we will see how it goes. I am projecting about 4-6 months to completion, as first I have to organize the sermons, then use the EEBO-Corrected Corpus for the body. But I also plan to create a theWord and E-Sword Commentary of it as well. I may mess around and see if I can create a Logos commentary out of it, but I am not familiar with doing so right now. Any suggestions are appreciated. I dont mind this being a growing work, and kind of having this as the base, which is kind of doable when you thank about it, because sermons are way easier to transcribe, even by the average person than entire books. So this may be something that us in the Puritan community may grow. Just give me a little time and let me form the base, and then I will start looking for Puritan sermons that may have been missed to fill in the gaps of scriptures not covered by this. God Bless.

 

[Polanus1561]

I trust you know how to make a 'Collection' in Logos (curate your own collection of puritan works).

And then you can search a chapter or verse in this collection.

The results are there.

 

[davejonescue]

I trust you know how to make a 'Collection' in Logos (curate your own collection of puritan works).

And then you can search a chapter or verse in this collection.

The results are there.

I do. And we can do that in Puritan Search as well. The problem I am finding with that method over the entirety of Puritan works, is searching scripture within the entire corpus often results in not a specific commentary on a specific scripture, but a comment made by a Puritan where several scriptures are used for illustration. Right now, though I would love to do a Puritan Commentary like the ACCS, which really got me thinking about the "Complete Collection" in the first place; it would take a team and extreme funding to go through so many docs and separate scripture mention, from scripture explanation. A sermon commentary is way more feasible because most of the Puritans sermons are on a given text; and it is basically a job of organization and compilation. Which present technology makes it feasible for a single person. Plus it serves a bi-fold purpose; that is as a commentary and as a collection of sermons. The 5 vol. "Puritan Sermons," is about 250 sermons, this collection will be about half the size of Spurgeons Metropolitan with around 1,600. With the possibility of corporate participation, maybe in the future; or even, improving my typing skills having access to EEBO via RSA, expanding the collection/commentary by general research as time progresses is a possibility. It is a lot easier to type a 5-10 page sermon, then a 100-1,000 page book at a time.

Also, one of the problems with using Logos to pinpoint scripture specific sermons; is many of the scriptures the sermons are based on are not in the title, and, within the sermon, it is a mixed bag of Roman numerals and regular numbers. It is just easier to use Zotero to look for "sermon" in the title, then go into each sermon and organize by book, chapter, verse. Then go back and compile.

 

[Deleted member 13126]

I do. And we can do that in Puritan Search as well. The problem I am finding with that method over the entirety of Puritan works, is searching scripture within the entire corpus often results in not a specific commentary on a specific scripture, but a comment made by a Puritan where several scriptures are used for illustration. Right now, though I would love to do a Puritan Commentary like the ACCS, which really got me thinking about the "Complete Collection" in the first place; it would take a team and extreme funding to go through so many docs and separate scripture mention, from scripture explanation. A sermon commentary is way more feasible because most of the Puritans sermons are on a given text; and it is basically a job of organization and compilation. Which present technology makes it feasible for a single person. Plus it serves a bi-fold purpose; that is as a commentary and as a collection of sermons. The 5 vol. "Puritan Sermons," is about 250 sermons, this collection will be about half the size of Spurgeons Metropolitan with around 1,600. With the possibility of corporate participation, maybe in the future; or even, improving my typing skills having access to EEBO via RSA, expanding the collection/commentary by general research as time progresses is a possibility. It is a lot easier to type a 5-10 page sermon, then a 100-1,000 page book at a time.

Also, one of the problems with using Logos to pinpoint scripture specific sermons; is many of the scriptures the sermons are based on are not in the title, and, within the sermon, it is a mixed bag of Roman numerals and regular numbers. It is just easier to use Zotero to look for "sermon" in the title, then go into each sermon and organize by book, chapter, verse. Then go back and compile.

I wonder if shared notebooks in Logos might be another way to incorporate contributions from other folks. I found out about shared notebooks using FaithLife groups for a daily devotional. Folks could contribute their citations and notes to the group notebook, which can then be accessed via Logos. This could be an option for folks on PB to swarm and contribute to something like this on an ongoing basis.

 

[davejonescue]

I wonder if shared notebooks in Logos might be another way to incorporate contributions from other folks. I found out about shared notebooks using FaithLife groups for a daily devotional. Folks could contribute their citations and notes to the group notebook, which can then be accessed via Logos. This could be an option for folks on PB to swarm and contribute to something like this on an ongoing basis.

The hard thing is not necessarily going to be finding people who are willing to type, but people willing to spend $30-$60 a year for EEBO access. One of the strict rules of EEBO is no sharing of files. So it is impossible for me to share a file to be transcribed. I can share a link to the file in EEBO, but people would have to have their own access; whether institutional or RSA, and download it themselves, then transcribe and upload. That is something to really think about in the future though. As of right now, the commentary is filling up nicely. While it will not come close to verse by verse, my hope is at least the most popular verses in each chapter will be covered. I am avoiding "sermon series" where a Puritan will do anything over 2 or 3 sermons on a single verse; as some can do upwards of 10, 20, or even more on a single text. Some have written entire commentaries on certain books comprised of sermons; and of right now I am trying to avoid that, that is, having a single author cover an entire book. This is a work in progress. I just need to slowly organize first, see where I am at, then try to pinpoint sermons I may have missed on EEBO an go from there. Again, the good thing about having a project where you are transcribing sermons, instead of books, is sermons take a lot less work.

If this is really something I am passionate about, and I find a considerable amount of sermons that need to be transcribed. I might take a year break or so and invest some time using "Plover" which is an open-source stenograph academy; that can teach a person to to get to about 200WPM in 6 months to a year. If that be the case, I may actually get to a point of being able to transcribe a sermon in a couple hours, as opposed to a couple of days. But again, I would have to be passionate about it, and have a good accumulation of sermons that would make the effort worth it.

 

[Deleted member 13126]

The hard thing is not necessarily going to be finding people who are willing to type, but people willing to spend $30-$60 a year for EEBO access. One of the strict rules of EEBO is no sharing of files. So it is impossible for me to share a file to be transcribed. I can share a link to the file in EEBO, but people would have to have their own access; whether institutional or RSA, and download it themselves, then transcribe and upload. That is something to really think about in the future though. As of right now, the commentary is filling up nicely. While it will not come close to verse by verse, my hope is at least the most popular verses in each chapter will be covered. I am avoiding "sermon series" where a Puritan will do anything over 2 or 3 sermons on a single verse; as some can do upwards of 10, 20, or even more on a single text. Some have written entire commentaries on certain books comprised of sermons; and of right now I am trying to avoid that, that is, having a single author cover an entire book. This is a work in progress. I just need to slowly organize first, see where I am at, then try to pinpoint sermons I may have missed on EEBO an go from there. Again, the good thing about having a project where you are transcribing sermons, instead of books, is sermons take a lot less work.

If this is really something I am passionate about, and I find a considerable amount of sermons that need to be transcribed. I might take a year break or so and invest some time using "Plover" which is an open-source stenograph academy; that can teach a person to to get to about 200WPM in 6 months to a year. If that be the case, I may actually get to a point of being able to transcribe a sermon in a couple hours, as opposed to a couple of days. But again, I would have to be passionate about it, and have a good accumulation of sermons that would make the effort worth it.

Hmm...

I, tentatively, may be able to help you in this area. With my trusty Topre, on a desk, I average about 176 WPM at my best moments. But that's either typing stream of consciousness, or typing out easily readable text. There may be task switch costs that could slow that down considerably. I can't say for sure, as I've never used EEBO. But I also have some experience stitching together software-based solutions, albeit I'm more Ops than Dev. We can chat more if you want, but I think we might be able to leverage Tesseract OCR or something similar ('AI') to help do some of the heavy lifting. I'm not opposed to throwing some money in if it means it can enable me or someone else to be helpful, either.

Exciting to see you take on this work, though. I'm confident it will be a fantastic contribution.

 

[davejonescue]

Hmm...

I, tentatively, may be able to help you in this area. With my trusty Topre, on a desk, I average about 176 WPM at my best moments. But that's either typing stream of consciousness, or typing out easily readable text. There may be task switch costs that could slow that down considerably. I can't say for sure, as I've never used EEBO. But I also have some experience stitching together software-based solutions, albeit I'm more Ops than Dev. We can chat more if you want, but I think we might be able to leverage Tesseract OCR or something similar ('AI') to help do some of the heavy lifting. I'm not opposed to throwing some money in if it means it can enable me or someone else to be helpful, either.

Exciting to see you take on this work, though. I'm confident it will be a fantastic contribution.

Thank you so much for your generosity. As far as OCR EEBO texts, it still sits pretty snug in the realm of almost impossible. Texas A&M has had a whole department dedicated to this effort for some time (https://emop.tamu.edu/,) to really no avail, and even the TCP (Text Creation Partnership) decided it was a better allocation of funds to hand transcribe rather than try to OCR. There is kind of a trifecta of issues dealing with EEBO texts. 1. The quality of the microfilms, 2. The fonts of the time period, 3. the intermingling of different fonts within the same text. I will get this together and see where it is at after it is finished; then try and search EEBO for Puritan sermons that may fill some gaps in the work as a whole.

 

[Deleted member 13126]

Thank you so much for your generosity. As far as OCR EEBO texts, it still sits pretty snug in the realm of almost impossible. Texas A&M has had a whole department dedicated to this effort for some time (https://emop.tamu.edu/,) to really no avail, and even the TCP (Text Creation Partnership) decided it was a better allocation of funds to hand transcribe rather than try to OCR. There is kind of a trifecta of issues dealing with EEBO texts. 1. The quality of the microfilms, 2. The fonts of the time period, 3. the intermingling of different fonts within the same text. I will get this together and see where it is at after it is finished; then try and search EEBO for Puritan sermons that may fill some gaps in the work as a whole.

That is quite interesting. I wonder if they could use an AI model and feed it sermons that have already been transcribed by hand, along with the original microfilm. This might be used to train the model, such that it may be able to transcribe other microfilms? Similar to training a model to solve CAPTCHA challenges, but for ye olde english instead of school buses and bicycles. Or perhaps they vary too much from one to another? I imagine such learned scholars have already considered such an option, but you never know...

 

[davejonescue]

That is quite interesting. I wonder if they could use an AI model and feed it sermons that have already been transcribed by hand, along with the original microfilm. This might be used to train the model, such that it may be able to transcribe other microfilms? Similar to training a model to solve CAPTCHA challenges, but for ye olde english instead of school buses and bicycles. Or perhaps they vary too much from one to another? I imagine such learned scholars have already considered such an option, but you never know.

I wouldnt be surprised if they have, but I couldnt tell you for certain. I think the problem lies in that there are so many variances that doing it with so many texts becomes the issue.

 

[Charles Johnson]

The only issue I can see cropping up is that puritan sermons tend to have a lot of sermon upon very little text. For example, Fenner has a 400 page book on the seven epistles to the Churches in Revelation. And Owen has various volumes on just Hebrews. So if you were to try to cover the whole bible it would very quickly balloon in size into hundreds of volumes.

 

[davejonescue]

The only issue I can see cropping up is that puritan sermons tend to have a lot of sermon upon very little text. For example, Fenner has a 400 page book on the seven epistles to the Churches in Revelation. And Owen has various volumes on just Hebrews. So if you were to try to cover the whole bible it would very quickly balloon in size into hundreds of volumes.

We will be avoiding those, lol. And, there are quite a few like that. Owens Hebrews, and Caryls Job are just a couple. But concerning Fenner (William) as you will see below, while he may have a 400 page book on Revelation, again, I am not going to use 20-30 or more sermons on a single text within the commentary; and there are quite a few of them; he does have a work entitled "29 Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture." I will be using that, and you can see it covers a wide array of scripture. This work will be voluminous, no doubt, but it is one of the only ways I can see to get a Puritan Commentary. And having all the sermons already in Zotero, and after the hard work of Project Puritas to correct so much of them, it is mainly just a shuffle job as of now putting them in order.

 

[davejonescue]

So far have:

273 OT
323 NT

Almost 600 down out of 1600 potential. I am very happy too because there is very little overlap. I can only think of 10, 15 at most thus far of verses with duplicates.

Psalms in the OT has the most with 75, and Matt. in the New with 40 (but with Luke-31, John-24, and Acts-31 respectively.)

 

[Polanus1561]

There are some stuff in NT sermons that are OT in content. E.g Charnock's masterful sermon on Christ as the Passover

 

[davejonescue]

There are some stuff in NT sermons that are OT in content. E.g Charnock's masterful sermon on Christ as the Passover

Oh, I wish I had the time to thoroughly go over each sermon and inspect their content. But one of the awesome things about Puritan & Non-Conformists sermons, is almost all of them have a specific text that they are following; whether that is a general sermon, a wedding sermon, a commencement sermon, or a funeral sermon, etc. And these are labeled clearly at the top of the text. This is what I am using to categorize the sermons. Now not all have this, but 99% do (so far) and I am just rejecting those that dont. Also, as of now, I am not going anything over 2 or 3 sermons on a single text by the same author; and am not using entire expositions on a single text that can span anywhere from 10 sermons to 50 and even 100. Also I am not using sermon series from single authors through whole books. I would like variety, and want to see how it fills up first going person by person, sermon by sermon. So far, it is going really well.

 

[arapahoepark]

Thank you for all of your work!

 

[davejonescue]

Thank you for all of your work!

My pleasure. As of now I have 317 in the OT, and 420 in the NT categorized; and to my gleeful surprise (and thankfulness) there is yet to be significant overlap. With 700 down, I have about 900 to go. So I am excited to see how it turns out. It will also be organic too; meaning that it can always be updated to add more sermons from areas that may have gaps by Puritans as we find them.

 

[davejonescue]

Little update. I have 1,500 organized so far; 710 in the OT and 790 in the NT. Little over the halfway point. This is without using sermon series on whole books of the bible (or expositions,) or going over anymore than 5-8 sermons on a single text (which are less than 5-10 instances anyway.) The thing is, you can go into one of these guys works, and there be 25, 50, or 100 sermons on various texts, and that is under a single heading. So I am very interested to see what the total amount will be. Just got to keep plugging away. Once I have them organized I can go back and compile.

 

[alexanderjames]

Little update.

View attachment 10196

I can't say this is the most exciting screenshot in the world, but your hard work is certainly appreciated!

 

[davejonescue]

I can't say this is the most exciting screenshot in the world, but your hard work is certainly appreciated!

Thank you; it was just to illustrate where I am in the sermon list to organize; a little over half-way. I will make a list of how many sermons per book and which chapters/verses covered once I get done organizing.

 

[davejonescue]

This is what I have organized so far with 1900 sermons in. Looks like there is about another 500-600 to organize. Specific verses have not been listed to save time. Also, I did not use any series more than 8-10 sermons long on a group of text; (for example Rom. 8:1-5, 2 sermons on 8:1, 1 sermon on 8:2, 3 sermons on 8:3, by a single author,) nor have I used expository works covering a whole book by a single author.

Gen. – 54 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 25, 27, 28, 32, 35, 39, 42, 47, 48, 49
Exo. – 47 sermons – Ch. 3, 4, 8, 13, 18, 20, 23, 31, 32, 33, 34
Lev. – 4 sermons – Ch. 16, 19
Num. – 6 sermons – Ch. 14-24, 23, 25, 35
Deut. – 22 sermons – Ch. 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 17, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, 32, 33
Josh. – 11 sermons – Ch. 1, 6, 7, 22, 24
Judg. - 7 sermons – Ch. 2, 5, 11, 19
Ruth – 1 sermon – Ch. 1
1 Sam. - 14 sermons – Ch. 2, 3, 4, 7, 12, 13, 15, 25, 30
2 Sam. – 22 sermons – Ch. 1, 3, 7, 10, 12, 15, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24
1 King – 14 sermons – Ch. 3, 8, 10, 14, 21
2 King – 16 sermons – Ch. 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 22, 23
1 Chron. – 8 sermons – Ch. 4, 12, 28
2 Chron. – 15 sermons – Ch. 8, 15, 17, 19, 23, 26, 30, 32, 33, 35
Ezra – 8 sermons – Ch. 7, 9, 10
Neh. – 9 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 13
Esth. – 3 sermons – Ch. 4, 9
Job – 31 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 22, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 36, 42
Psalms – 248 sermons – Ch. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42, 45, 46, 48, 50, 51, 57, 58, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 89, 90, 91, 94, 97, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 106, 110, 111, 112, 113, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 126, 127, 130, 133, 136, 137, 139, 140, 143, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150
Prov. – 56 sermons- Ch. 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31
Ecc. – 15 sermons – Ch. 1-4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12
SoS. – 23 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8
Isai. – 97 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 38, 40, 43, 44, 45, 46, 50, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65
Jer. – 36 sermons – Ch. 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 23, 24, 29, 35, 44
Lam. – 7 sermons – Ch. 3, 4, 5
Ezek. – 13 sermons – Ch. 9, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 33, 34, 36, 43
Dan. – 8 sermons – Ch. 3, 6, 7, 12
Hos. – 21 sermons – Ch. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14
Joel – 1 sermon – Ch. 2
Amos – 10 sermons – Ch. 1, 4, 5, 8, 9
Oba. – 1 sermon – Ch. 5-6
Jonah – 11 sermons – Ch. 1, 3
Micah – 7 sermons – Ch. 2, 4, 6, 7
Nahum – 0
Habak. – 2 sermons – Ch. 3
Zeph. - 3 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3
Hagg. – 5 sermons – Ch. 1, 2
Zech. – 16 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 13, 14
Mala. – 8 sermons – Ch. 1, 3, 4,

Matt. – 142 sermons – Ch. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
Mark – 16 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16
Luke – 91 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 29
John – 95 sermons – Ch. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
Acts – 80 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28
Rom. – 70 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
1 Cor. – 69 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
2 Cor. – 57 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19
Gal. – 33 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Eph. – 42 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Phil. – 34 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4
Col. – 18 sermons – Ch. 1, 3, 4
1 Thess. – 19 sermons – Ch. 1, 4, 5
2 Thess. – 7 sermons – Ch. 2, 3
1 Tim. – 24 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
2 Tim. – 10 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4
Titus – 9 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3,
Phile. – 0
Heb. – 66 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
James – 16 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
1 Pet. – 30 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
2 Pet. – 15 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3
1 Joh. – 22 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
2 Joh. – 2 sermons – 8, 9
3 Joh. – 2 sermons – 1, 2
Rev. – 56 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22

Total 1906 sermons so far. About 500 - 600 to go. Though it was projected to be 1600 sermons, sometimes you go into a single work and it has 20, 50, or 100 sermons on different texts. So, it has been more than I thought.

 

[davejonescue]

After much consideration this last week; I have decided I am going to go ahead and discontinue completing this project. The truth is, I have posted this in several places, one with 40,000 members (of a Puritan site) and here, with very little, if any response. While the task is not impossible; I also want to use my time wisely, and if there is going to be little reception of it; there is no need to pursue it. And besides, in Puritan Search, all of the sermons are available for viewing and reading by simply searching title: sermon or title: sermons. Though they are not in scripture order there, many if not most include what the sermon is about in the title. I really just have to come to the conclusion that I have more than enough Christian literature to hold me over probably for my entire pilgrimage on this earth, and as such, the same is also available for free for anybody who would search. I have come to the point (Lord Willing,) where a better use of my time would be enjoying the plethora of Puritan writings ready to read, rather than exerting so much energy trying to reinvent ways to repackage them and distribute them if that makes sense. I apologize in advance for the few who were interested in this project, but again, if you download Puritan Search, they are all easily accessible there. God Bless.

 

[alexanderjames]

After much consideration this last week; I have decided I am going to go ahead and discontinue completing this project. The truth is, I have posted this in several places, one with 40,000 members (of a Puritan site) and here, with very little, if any response. While the task is not impossible; I also want to use my time wisely, and if there is going to be little reception of it; there is no need to pursue it. And besides, in Puritan Search, all of the sermons are available for viewing and reading by simply searching title: sermon or title: sermons. Though they are not in scripture order there, many if not most include what the sermon is about in the title. I really just have to come to the conclusion that I have more than enough Christian literature to hold me over probably for my entire pilgrimage on this earth, and as such, the same is also available for free for anybody who would search. I have come to the point (Lord Willing,) where a better use of my time would be enjoying the plethora of Puritan writings ready to read, rather than exerting so much energy trying to reinvent ways to repackage them and distribute them if that makes sense. I apologize in advance for the few who were interested in this project, but again, if you download Puritan Search, they are all easily accessible there. God Bless.

Brother, you have clearly put a great deal of time and hard work into this project and have come so far, why decide to discontinue if you are 75-80% of the way there? I imagine it’s very difficult when there seems like no response but if you believe it will be a valuable resource in the future I would encourage you to continue to completion if possible.. perhaps that may mean giving it less time and over a longer period? In that way you could spend more of your time profiting from reading yourself, and this particular resource can benefit others in the years to come.

 

[davejonescue]

Brother, you have clearly put a great deal of time and hard work into this project and have come so far, why decide to discontinue if you are 75-80% of the way there? I imagine it’s very difficult when there seems like no response but if you believe it will be a valuable resource in the future I would encourage you to continue to completion if possible.. perhaps that may mean giving it less time and over a longer period? In that way you could spend more of your time profiting from reading yourself, and this particular resource can benefit others in the years to come.

You are right. I think I just got discouraged. Just have to keep pushing and be the turtle and not the hare. A little consistently is better than jumping ship. Thank you for that push, I needed that.

 

[davejonescue]

Well, after about 2 months, finally finished organizing for now. Will begin Phase II which is compiling the Puritan Pulpit Commentary into EPUBS, PDF's, and Website. Below is kind of the sketch of where its at. I looks like a lot of area was covered. There were quite a few sermons I couldnt use simply because there were too many mistakes in them. The ones below have very little if any mistakes, so it should make for good reading. The Greek and Hebrew will not be included, at least on my end, because it will take someone who is fluent in those languages to be able to interpret what they were actually trying to write in those languages. But yeah, will probably take a few days off; then back to work.

OT – 1,190 Sermons
Gen. –72 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 25, 27, 28, 31, 32, 35, 39, 42, 45, 47, 48, 49
Exo. – 52 sermons – Ch. 3, 4, 8, 12, 13, 17, 18, 20, 23, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34
Lev. – 15 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5-6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 16, 19
Num. – 10 sermons – Ch. 14-24, 18, 21, 23, 25, 35
Deut. – 30 sermons – Ch. 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 16, 17, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, 32, 33
Josh. – 15 sermons – Ch. 1, 4, 6, 7, 22, 24
Judg. - 10 sermons – Ch. 2, 5, 11, 19, 20
Ruth – 1 sermon – Ch. 1
1 Sam. - 19 sermons – Ch. 2, 3, 4, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 25, 30
2 Sam. – 28 sermons – Ch. 1, 3, 7, 10, 12, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24
1 King – 17 sermons – Ch. 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 19, 21
2 King – 19 sermons – Ch. 2, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 22, 23
1 Chron. – 12 sermons – Ch. 4, 12, 21, 28
2 Chron. – 22 sermons – Ch. 4, 7, 8, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23, 26, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35
Ezra – 9 sermons – Ch. 7, 8, 9, 10
Neh. – 13 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 13
Esth. – 6 sermons – Ch. 4, 9
Job – 38 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 22, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 36, 42
Psalms – 317 sermons – Ch. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 55, 57, 58, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 110, 111, 112, 113, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 130, 133, 134, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 143, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150
Prov. – 85 sermons- Ch. 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31
Ecc. – 30 sermons – Ch. 1-4, 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
SoS. – 28 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8
Isai. – 133 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 37, 38, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 50, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65
Jer. – 49 sermons – Ch. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 23, 24, 29,30, 31, 34, 35, 44, 45, 48, 50, 51
Lam. – 13 sermons – Ch. 3, 4, 5
Ezek. – 18 sermons – Ch. 9, 10, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 33, 34, 36, 37, 43, 47
Dan. – 15 sermons – Ch. 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12
Hos. – 23 sermons – Ch. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14
Joel – 8 sermons – Ch. 1, 2
Amos – 13 sermons – Ch. 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9
Oba. – 1 sermon – Ch. 5-6
Jonah – 11 sermons – Ch. 1, 3
Micah – 8 sermons – Ch. 2, 4, 6, 7
Nahum – 0
Habak. – 5 sermons – Ch. 2, 3
Zeph. - 3 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3
Hagg. – 7 sermons – Ch. 1, 2
Zech. – 24 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Mala. – 11 sermons – Ch. 1, 3, 4,

NT – 1,425 Sermons
Matt. – 193 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
Mark – 23 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16
Luke – 119 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24,
John – 145 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
Acts – 93 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
Rom. – 109 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
1 Cor. – 95 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
2 Cor. – 73 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
Gal. – 44 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Eph. – 52 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Phil. – 52 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4
Col. – 27 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4
1 Thess. – 23 sermons – Ch. 1, 4, 5
2 Thess. – 8 sermons – Ch. 2, 3
1 Tim. – 36 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
2 Tim. – 20 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4
Titus – 10 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3,
Phile. – 0
Heb. – 99 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
James – 28 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
1 Pet. – 46 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
2 Pet. – 18 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3
1 Joh. – 33 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
2 Joh. – 3 sermons – 8, 9
3 Joh. – 2 sermons – 1, 2
Jude – 2 sermons – 4, 22-23
Rev. – 73 sermons – Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22

2,615 Total Sermons

 

[particularlybaptist]

So awesome!

 

[davejonescue]

Hello all. Since completing the organization of the Puritan & Non-Conformists sermons into Bible book, chapter, and verse; I have spent the last day trying to see the feasibility of editing and creating an EPUB, PDF collection. But the truth is, I will simply not have enough time to do it alone. Not with 2,600 sermons. This needs to be something a team does. Plus, there is also the pressing question of the overall value of such a collection, as I wonder how many people actually digest the 6 volume "Cripplegate" already available? And that is roughly 175 sermons, I think. Also, I really dont want to be in front of a computer screen 99% of my free time for the next 2-3 years; I would rather be doing something actively engaging for the Gospels sake.

But, the awesome thing is, since I categorized it in Zotero, I was able to create a Public group that includes the notes. This gives anybody access to the organization of the sermons, and a direct link to them in EEBO-TCP. Also, if you have the Project Puritas files, you can go to the sermons in them, and pinpoint them in collected works by hitting "Control F," then searching for the title. I apologize for those who may have been looking forward to it. But time is also a form of stewardship, and I just don't really see an overall response that would justify such effort. With that being said, they are freely there for the viewing. I will also include it as a resource in the Resource Hub.

Thank you, and God Bless.

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[davejonescue]

Want to throw this out there. I am finding myself going back to doing it. So I really don't know how much effort I am eventually going to put towards this, with presently no projected time of completion, or even a definite completion. May be something I do when I am bored, like a hobby. And in a small town you need one, lol. Posting this so if someone is serious about taking on this project; (now or in the future) contact me, so we can kind of join what I may have, with what you possibly have (if any are ever interested,) so there is no need to repeat progress. I just really enjoy doing stuff like this; I most likely only need to cut back on how fervent I am about doing so; and take it a sermon at a time and see how far it goes.

God Bless.