The idea for this free book originated from this month' free German language book of the month, which is the audio version of the First London Confession from 1644 (1LCF) in German language (1LCF is a reformed Baptist confession, predating the much better known 2LCF). Since I'm not really an audio-book person - and such documents, with very nuanced theological wording and dozens of bible links, are made for underlining, markup and notes - I looked up the web and found the pdf version on
http://www.london1644.info
, which could be easily turned into a PB source and is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, thus shareable here in the forums. I did this for the German language version and now share the English language version:
Please note: Logos has a version of the 1LCF in its library, it's document #108 in a collection of reformed confessions by James T. Dennison. However, the 1LCF shared here is a newly produced "comprehensive edition" which was edited by Bernhard U. Hermes from several editions of the 1LCF prints, now having slightly different language, numbering and content than the existing Dennison edition. Most crucially, the biblical references of the original show serious weaknesses (which Dennison comments on a bit) and have been completely redone in the new edition. Thus I don't feel I'm competing with Logos here. I have opened a pdf version in Word, changed the font into Times New Roman (i.e. standard, your font choice in Logos will apply for the compiled book) and substituted the creative "&" character in the bible references with the "." Logos will autodetect. I added the licence in a sentence at the beginning and the end of the book - note for any further usage that it allows for redistribution in unaltered form for noncommercial purposes if author and licence are referred. The format conversion into a Logos-usable docx-format is within the license. I didn't convert the hundreds of footnotes into proper footnotes just due to effort.
