As you may know, my wife and I attended the 2008 Together for the Gospel Conference. You may also know that they sent each of us home with a load of excellent books. That means that we came home with two of everything. Rather than drawing a name, as I have in the past, I’ve been trying to think of clever ways to give them away. A couple of weeks ago, I gave one to a reader who posted a comment that caught my attention. This time, I’m going to post a quote, and send a prize to the first two commenters who identify the writer.

What is the prize? Choose one book from the list below:

• Christ is All: The Piety of Horatius Bonar ed. by Michael Haykin and Darrin Brooker
• The Mortification of Sin by John Owen (Puritan Paperbacks, Abridged)
• Walking as He Walked by Joel Beeke
• reThink by Steve Wright
• Young, Restless, Reformed by Collin Hansen
• The Faithful Preacher by Thabiti Anyabwile
• In My Place Condemned He Stood by J. I. Packer and Mark Dever
• The Future of Justification by John Piper
• Pierced for Our Transgressions by Steve Jeffery, Michael Ovey, and Andrew Sach

Because I’m offering two prizes, you will have to email your answer to me here. Make sure the subject line says “Book Give-away III.” I’m closing the comments on this post until the winners are identified. Also, if I saw you at Together for the Gospel, consider yourself disqualified!

Now, name this writer:

Next to the perusal of the Scriptures, which I earnestly inculcate, I exhort my pupils to peruse Calvin’s commentaries, which I extol in loftier terms than Helmich himself; for I affirm that he excels beyond comparison in the interpretation of Scripture, and that his commentaries ought to be more highly valued than all that is handed down to us by the Library of the Fathers; so that I acknowledge him to have possessed above most others, or rather above all other men, what may be called an eminent gift of prophecy.

I will update this post as soon as we have a winner, so check back here for that announcement.

Update: I have two winners:

1. A. Jones
2. Lisa Bailes

Congratulations, and thanks for playing. Just email me once more with your mailing address and book choice, and I’ll send them right out. (If you are the number 2 winner, include a second choice in case you both choose the same book.)

Sorry, all you who guessed Spurgeon (and there were many). The Author was Arminius.