Thanks to our friends at Crown & Covenant, we have two (2) copies of Dr. Wayne Spear’s, Faith of Our Fathers: A Commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith. The deadline for entering is two weeks from today, Friday, April 8.…
We are at the third (see part 1 and part 2) of our reading the Puritan Paperback, Sermons of the Great Ejection. This title is a collection of nine sermons recalls one of the great turning points in English Christianity—when…
In our first and second posts on James Durham’s essay, “Concerning Ministerial Qualifications,” we saw that the prerequisites “for the complete qualifying of a Minster” were “Gifts, Learning, and Grace.” And we spent some time looking at Durham’s understanding of ministerial…
A quick web search reveals surveys that show as many as 97% of Americans professing to believe in God. Impressive, isn’t it? But do 97% of Americans actually believe in the God who says, “You shall have no other gods…
Petrus van Mastricht, The Best Method of Preaching. Trans. Todd Rester (Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2013). 82pp. Jonathan Edwards once stated that Peter van Mastricht’s Theoretico-Practica Theologia was the best book that he had read apart from the…
Life Thomas Watson (1620–1686) was probably born in Yorkshire. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, earning a B.A. in 1639 and a M.A. in 1642. Then he lived for a time with the Puritan family of Lady Mary Vere, the…
Who were the Puritans? Since you are “meeting” them it would be remiss if someone did not at least give a definition of who the Puritans were. Now, one of the problems in defining a “Puritan” has to do…
In our continuing series on the Puritan vision for Christian zeal (part 1, part 2, part 3), we now take up its means. When you look around and see few people who are zealous for the Lord, you may…
While denying the Roman Catholic doctrine that love is the life and soul of justifying faith, John Ball (1585-1640) strenuously affirmed that justifying faith cannot be without love. Faith and love are distinct graces which are “infused together” by the…
There once was a popular song in my college years with a blasphemous chorus that went like this: “Tell me all your thoughts on God. Cause I’d really like to meet her; and ask her why we’re who we are?…
