Puritans

T he Puritans set high standards for preaching. They believed they should preach the Bible from their own experience of it and apply what they preached to the particular needs of their hearers. But as much as we admire the Puritans, we should not slavishly imitate them, but critically examine their...

A s we've seen, the Puritans had a rich understanding of Christian marriage ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 ). In this final post, I'd like to show that they also believed marital love must be sexual . Both marital partners should give themselves fully to each other with joy and exuberance in a healthy...

C ontrary to characatures, the Puritans had a lot to say about love, and marital love in particular. In our continuing series ( post #1 , post #2 ) we take up their teaching that marital love must be superlative. A husband and wife are to love each other so dearly that both are persuaded that the...

"Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent." (Revelation 3:3; KJV) L ocal Anglican pastor John Whitlock (1625-1708) is the last minister in our reading of the Puritan Paperback, Sermons of the Great Ejection . “The Great Ejection” was the expulsion of 20%...

Happy New Year! Let's kick it off Puritan style with a free book giveaway. Our friends at Latimer Trust in the U.K. have given us two (2) 3-book bundles to give away: Chad B. Van Dixhoorn, A Puritan Theology of Preaching , Peter Adam, 'To Bring Men to Heaven by Preaching': John Donne's Evangelistic...

E dward Taylor (c. 1642–1729), a pastor, physician, and poet of Puritan New England, wrote, “A curious knot God made in Paradise…. It was the true-love knot, more sweet than spice” (“Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children,” in The Poems of Edward Taylor , ed. Donald E. Stanford, abridged ed. [New...

W e at Meet the Puritans thank you for all your support in this, our first year, as an Alliance site! Since ACE is located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, e very year we can participate in the Lancaster Foundation's "Extraordinary Give." This year $300,000 will be given to hundreds of non-...

Exuberant over an experience, an oh-so-sweet manifestation of divine providence, you delightedly seek to give God praise in telling your story. “It was such a ‘God thing’,” you proclaim. As you see it, God wove together an otherwise inexplicable combination of events to deliver a wonderful—even...

I f I could have $5 for every time someone has asked me the question, “Who is your favourite Puritan to read?,” I suppose I’d be a wealthy man by now. Though I would probably answer that question today by saying, “Anthony Burgess—and he’s also one of the most neglected!,” for nearly two decades I...

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