Christian Literature
21 public-domain classics, free to read, download, and print (96.8 MB total). Every title’s public-domain basis is recorded beneath it. Editions marked “GTU print edition” were typeset by the university from Project Gutenberg texts.
The Holy Bible — King James Version
The entire KJV in one printable PDF, typeset from the university’s verified text — the same text as the online reader.
Public domain (1769 text). This shelf is the complete Bible’s one home in the library for download and printing.
Authors
The named shelves — Spurgeon, Finney, Wesley, Whitefield, Edwards, Owen, and the Puritan writers.
C. H. Spurgeon
All of Grace (1894)
Spurgeon's earnest call to come to Christ just as you are — his most beloved evangelistic book.
Internet Archive scan (public-domain edition) · 192 pages · Source: https://archive.org/download/americanbiblesoc00wyck/americanbiblesoc00wyck.pdf
Author died 1892; work first published 1894 — public domain (pre-1930 publication; copyright long expired).
John Bunyan
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666)
Bunyan's spiritual autobiography — his conviction, terror, and deliverance in Christ.
GTU print edition, typeset from Project Gutenberg text #654 · 98 pages · Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/654
Author died 1688; work first published 1666 — public domain (pre-1930 publication; copyright long expired).
Matthew Meinecke
An Anthology of Poetry (2026)
Matthew Meinecke's complete collection — 255 poems opening with 'The Old Forgotten Church,' illustrated with the public-domain engravings of Gustave Doré.
Typeset PDF edition prepared for Grace Team University · 320 pages · Source:
Original work of the author, published at his direction on Grace Team University.
Devotionals
Books for the morning watch and the prayer closet — Spurgeon’s Treasury of David stands here as the featured set.
C. H. Spurgeon
Andrew Murray
Abide in Christ (1882)
Murray's classic on abiding in Christ — thirty-one meditations on the branch in the Vine.
· 0 pages · Source: https://archive.org/download/AndrewMurray/the_books_of_andrew_murray.pdf
Author died 1895; work first published 1882 — public domain (pre-1930 publication; copyright long expired).
Humility: The Beauty of Holiness (1895)
Murray on humility — the creature's true place and the Christian's highest beauty.
· 0 pages · Source: https://archive.org/download/humilitybeautyof0000reva/humilitybeautyof0000reva.pdf
Author died 1895; work first published 1895 — public domain (pre-1930 publication; copyright long expired).
With Christ in the School of Prayer (1885)
Murray's lessons on prayer from the teaching of Jesus Himself.
· 0 pages · Source: https://archive.org/download/isbn_9781448639267/isbn_9781448639267.pdf
Author died 1895; work first published 1885 — public domain (pre-1930 publication; copyright long expired).
F. B. Meyer
Our Daily Homily (1898)
F. B. Meyer's short daily readings moving chapter by chapter through the Bible.
· 0 pages · Source: https://archive.org/download/ourdailyhomily04meye/ourdailyhomily04meye.pdf
Author died 1933; work first published 1898 — public domain (pre-1930 publication; copyright long expired).
Samuel Bagster (compiler)
Daily Light on the Daily Path (1875)
Scripture alone, arranged morning and evening for every day — no commentary but the Word itself.
· 0 pages · Source: https://archive.org/download/dailylightondail00lond/dailylightondail00lond.pdf
Author died 1794; work first published 1875 — public domain (pre-1930 publication; copyright long expired).
E. M. Bounds
Power Through Prayer (1912)
Bounds' burning classic — 'God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else.'
· 0 pages · Source: https://archive.org/download/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp82-00850r000300040023-9/cia-rdp82-00850r000300040023-9_text.pdf
Author died 1913; work first published 1912 — public domain (pre-1930 publication; copyright long expired).
George Müller
Answers to Prayer (1895)
From Müller's narratives — thousands of orphans fed by prayer alone, without asking any man.
· 0 pages · Source: https://archive.org/download/howgodanswerspra0000mlle/howgodanswerspra0000mlle.pdf
Author died 1898; work first published 1895 — public domain (pre-1930 publication; copyright long expired).
Christian Classics
The undying books of the whole church — Foxe’s martyrs and Bunyan’s pilgrim lead the shelf.
Charles M. Sheldon
In His Steps (1897)
Sheldon's famous story — 'What would Jesus do?' — that changed a whole town.
· 0 pages · Source: https://archive.org/download/InHisSteps1899/InHisSteps1899.pdf
Author died 1934; work first published 1897 — public domain (pre-1930 publication; copyright long expired).
Church History
The story of the church told at full length — Schaff’s eight volumes anchor this shelf; Gibbon stands beside them, to be read with discernment: his chapters on the rise of Christianity come from a skeptical pen.
Philip Schaff
History of the Christian Church, Vol. I: Apostolic Christianity, A.D. 1–100 (1882)
Schaff's great history begins: the apostolic age, the preparation for Christianity, and the church of the first century.
Internet Archive scan (public-domain edition) · 864 pages · Source: https://archive.org/download/philip-schaff.-history-of-the-christian-church-volume-1/Philip%20Schaff.%20History%20of%20the%20Christian%20Church%2C%20Volume%201.pdf
Author died 1893; work first published 1882 — public domain (pre-1930 publication; copyright long expired).
History of the Christian Church, Vol. III: Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity, A.D. 311–600 (1884)
From Constantine to Gregory the Great — councils, creeds, and the great doctors of the church.
· 0 pages · Source:
Author died 1893; work first published 1884 — public domain (pre-1930 publication; copyright long expired).
History of the Christian Church, Vol. V: The Middle Ages, A.D. 1049–1294 (1907)
The height of the medieval papacy — from Gregory VII to Boniface VIII (completed by David S. Schaff).
· 0 pages · Source:
Author died 1893; work first published 1907 — public domain (pre-1930 publication; copyright long expired).
History of the Christian Church, Vol. VI: The Middle Ages, A.D. 1294–1517 (1910)
The decline of the medieval church and the forerunners of the Reformation (completed by David S. Schaff).
· 0 pages · Source:
Author died 1893; work first published 1910 — public domain (pre-1930 publication; copyright long expired).
In Preparation
These titles are verified public domain but no suitably clean copy has been secured yet — the shelf will grow as they are:
New Park Street Pulpit — Sermons, Vol. 1
C. H. Spurgeon — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
Lectures on Revivals of Religion
Charles G. Finney — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
Lectures on Systematic Theology
Charles G. Finney — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
Lectures to Professing Christians
Charles G. Finney — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
A Short Account of God's Dealings with the Rev. George Whitefield
George Whitefield — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
Sermons on Important Subjects
George Whitefield — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
Whitefield's Journals
George Whitefield — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Holy War
John Bunyan — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
Keeping the Heart
John Flavel — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Fountain of Life
John Flavel — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Mystery of Providence
John Flavel — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
John Owen — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers
John Owen — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
John Owen — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
A Plain Account of Christian Perfection
John Wesley — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
Sermons on Several Occasions
John Wesley — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Journal of John Wesley
John Wesley — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
Jonathan Edwards — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
Freedom of the Will
Jonathan Edwards — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
A Call to the Unconverted
Richard Baxter — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Reformed Pastor
Richard Baxter — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
Heaven on Earth
Thomas Brooks — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices
Thomas Brooks — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
A Body of Divinity
Thomas Watson — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
All Things for Good (A Divine Cordial)
Thomas Watson — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Beatitudes
Thomas Watson — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Christian in Complete Armour
William Gurnall — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Pilgrim's Progress (Parts I & II)
John Bunyan — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Saints' Everlasting Rest
Richard Baxter — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. I (Bury Edition)
Edward Gibbon — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. II (Bury Edition)
Edward Gibbon — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. III (Bury Edition)
Edward Gibbon — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. IV (Bury Edition)
Edward Gibbon — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. V (Bury Edition)
Edward Gibbon — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. VI (Bury Edition)
Edward Gibbon — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
John Foxe — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Imitation of Christ
Thomas à Kempis — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Confessions of St. Augustine
Augustine of Hippo — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The City of God
Augustine of Hippo — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
William Law — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Practice of the Presence of God
Brother Lawrence — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Treasury of David, Vol. 1 (Psalms 1–26)
C. H. Spurgeon — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Treasury of David, Vol. 2 (Psalms 27–52)
C. H. Spurgeon — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Treasury of David, Vol. 3 (Psalms 53–78)
C. H. Spurgeon — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Treasury of David, Vol. 4 (Psalms 79–103)
C. H. Spurgeon — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Treasury of David, Vol. 5 (Psalms 104–118)
C. H. Spurgeon — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Treasury of David, Vol. 6 (Psalm 119)
C. H. Spurgeon — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Treasury of David, Vol. 7 (Psalms 120–150)
C. H. Spurgeon — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
Morning Thoughts
Octavius Winslow — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
Come Ye Apart
J. R. Miller — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life
Hannah Whitall Smith — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.
Daily Readings from All Four Gospels
J. C. Ryle — listed honestly as a gap rather than filled with an unverified copy.