Thanks to our friends at The Latimer Trust, we have two (2) copies of Peter Adam’s book, To Bring Men to Heaven by Preaching: John Donne’s Evangelistic Sermons to give away. The deadline for entering is Friday, May 20. Here’s the Entry…
“Where God does not find a mouth to speak, you must not find an ear to hear, nor a heart to believe.” We are at the fourth of our reading the Puritan Paperback, Sermons of the Great Ejection. This title…
Alright, you could rightly say that Cotton Mather (1663-1728) does not meet the strict historical definition of a “Puritan” preacher (see Mark Jones’ post here). Still, as a Massachusetts Bay Colony boy, son of Increase Mather, and grandson of John…
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…
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…
As the star pupil of William Perkins at Christ’s College Cambridge, William Ames (1576–1633), followed his mentor’s preaching pattern of explaining, teaching, and applying the text. It may seem strange that in his systematic-theological Marrow of Theology, Ames devoteed a whole chapter…
We began last time looking at James Durham’s essay, “Concerning Ministerial Qualifications.” The post ended with the thought that “it is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus.” Nevertheless gifts are necessary, and Durham in…
Imagine your pastor announcing from the pulpit, “I want you to know that I regard myself as a prophet.” Don’t you think this would raise a few eyebrows? In this third of five parts on Puritan preaching (part 1, part…
Last time I encouraged you (especially my fellow Anglicans!) to join me in 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…
