Category Meet the Puritans

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The Cross-Bearing Life

Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.” Following Jesus requires a commitment to lifelong self-denial. Anything less falls short of biblical religion.…

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The Rhetoric of Puritan Preaching

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been looking at Puritan preaching through the lens of the trivium. Scripture gave Puritan preachers a foundational grammar, and through logical/dialectical methods this grammar would be brought to bear upon the minds of men.…

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Edwards on Testing True Revival

The Great Awakening of the mid-eighteenth century provoked the ire of many Protestants. This was due to reports of hysteria surrounding the Awakening’s particular brand of revivalism. Many did not know what to make of the excitement and fervor exuded…

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The Logic of Puritan Preaching

The Puritans were driven by Christ-centered expository preaching. God’s Word gave them the grammar; it was as essential to Puritan preaching as phonics for the four-year-old learning to read. And yet knowing what God said in a particular text is…

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The Grammar of Puritan Preaching

Preaching was the heartbeat of the Puritan movement. It would be no exaggeration to say that without Puritan preaching there would have been no Puritans. To quote Irvonwy Morgan, “Puritanism in the last resort must be assessed in terms of…