Old Paths: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Old Paths, credited to J. C. Ryle, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Old Paths by J. C. Ryle. Read in English by Christopher Smith This book is subtitled “Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity". The main title comes from the writings the old testament prophet Jeremiah, who refers to the old paths where the good way is, which if people walk in it they will find rest for their souls (Jer 6 v6). Bishop Ryle wrote this book at a time when many in the church were forsaking the old paths of evangelical Christianity in favour of liberal ideas. In Ryle’s day the old doctrines held by the apostolic Christians and reformers had started to be sneered at in certain quarters as being old-fashioned and worn out, and that something more modern was needed. Ryle held that the “old paths” were the best ones, and wrote “The longer I live the more I am convinced that the world needs no new Gospel, as some profess to think. I am thoroughly persuaded that the world needs nothing but bold, full, unflinching teaching of the 'old paths'.” (Summary by Christopher Smith)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Old Paths
• Author credits: J. C. Ryle
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 64
• Listed recording duration: 20:29:58

Catalogue topics

• Christianity
• bible
• salvation
• church
• gospel
• evangelical

Opening tracks: first 24 of 64

1. 00 - Preface — 9:48
2. 01 - Ch 1 pt 1 - Inspiration — 23:06
3. 02 - Ch 1 pt 2 - Inspiration — 25:25
4. 03 - Ch 1 pt 3 - Inspiration — 24:48
5. 04 - Ch 1 pt 4 - Inspiration — 23:35
6. 05 - Ch 2 pt 1 - Our Souls — 21:29
7. 06 - Ch 2 pt 2 - Our Souls — 21:36
8. 07 - Ch 2 pt 3 - Our Souls — 11:14
9. 08 - Ch 3 pt 1 - Few Saved — 21:43
10. 09 - Ch 3 pt 2 - Few Saved — 22:48
11. 10 - Ch 3 pt 3 - Few Saved — 21:05
12. 11 - Ch 4 pt 1 - Our Hope — 21:34
13. 12 - Ch 4 pt 2 - Our Hope — 26:23
14. 13 - Ch 4 pt 3 - Our Hope — 18:09
15. 14 - Ch 5 pt 1 - Alive or Dead — 19:16
16. 15 - Ch 5 pt 2 - Alive or Dead — 27:02
17. 16 - Ch 5 pt 3 - Alive or Dead — 21:33
18. 17 - Ch 6 pt 1 - Our Sins — 26:11
19. 18 - Ch 6 pt 2 - Our Sins — 18:37
20. 19 - Ch 6 pt 3 - Our Sins — 21:42
21. 20 - Ch 7 pt 1 - Forgiveness — 13:18
22. 21 - Ch 7 pt 2 - Forgiveness — 19:46
23. 22 - Ch 7 pt 3 - Forgiveness — 16:42
24. 23 - Ch 7 pt 4 - Forgiveness — 25:46

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