For generations, Thomas Watson’s works have been beloved, quoted, and reprinted in fragments, yet never collected in a definitive edition. This seven-volume set rectifies that omission, bringing together Watson’s published writings in a uniform, carefully edited, and eminently usable form for the church today.

Watson is that rare combination: simple enough for the newest reader, weighty enough for the seasoned pastor. He is Scripture-saturated without being merely proof-textual, doctrinally exact without turning cold, and relentlessly practical without becoming shallow. He writes in memorable sentences that lodge in the conscience, but always to lead you somewhere: into repentance, faith, holiness, comfort, and communion with the triune God. As Joel Beeke testifies, Watson does not merely inform the mind, he searches the heart, steadies the soul in trial, and repeatedly lifts the eyes to the sufficiency and sweetness of Christ.

Hardcovers, 4492 pages, RHB 

Table of Contents  

Volume 1

The Crown of Righteousness

The Duty of Self-Denial

The Fight of Faith Crowned

The One Thing Necessary

The Upright Man’s Character and Crown

The Righteous Man’s Weal and the Wicked Man’s Woe

The Bible and the Closet

The Christian’s Charter

Miscellaneous Short Works

Volume 2

A Body of
Practical Divinity:
The Creed 

The Holy Eucharist: Mystery of the
Lord’s Supper

Sermons

Volume 3

A Body of
Practical Divinity:
   The Ten Commandments

Religion Our True Interest

Christ's Loveliness

Sermons

Volume 4

A Body of
Practical Divinity:
     The Lord’s Prayer

Sermons

Volume 5

The Beatitudes

Sermons

Volume 6

A Divine Cordial

Doctrine of Repentance

The Saint’s Spiritual Delight

A Christian on the Mount

The Christian on Earth
Still in Heaven 

The Art of Divine Contentment

A Plea for the Godly

The Substantial Excellency of Spiritual Things

The Mystical Temple 

Volume 7

The Godly Man’s Picture

Heaven Taken by Storm

The Happiness of
Drawing Near to God

The Mischief of Sin

An Alarm to Sinners

The Desperateness of Sinners

The Furnace Heated Hotter

Jerusalem’s Glory