Meet the Puritans

Thanks to our friends at Crown & Covenant Publications , we have two (2) copies of Bradley Johnston's, 150 Questions About the Psalter: What You Need to Know About the Songs God Wrote. USA addreses only. One entry per person. Deadline is Friday, August 29. Click here to enter ...

Thanks to our own Dr. Ryan McGraw, we now have a new page on our "Reading the Puritans" dropdown menu: Annotated Bibliography on Reformed Piety . We pray this stimulates you to read and to grow in your love for Christ.

Our editor, Danny Hyde , recently joined the team at the Reformed Forum for its 450th episode of Christ the Center for a discussion of the issue of the Sabbath/Lord's Day as it was debated and doctrinally delivered at "The Great Synod of Dort" ( De Grote Synode van Dordrecht , 1618-1619). You can...

We resume our reading of the Puritan Paperback, Sermons of the Great Ejection with the first of three pieces by Anglican Thomas Watson. “The Great Ejection” was the explusion of nearly 20% of Anglican ministers from their cures in the 1662 Act of Uniformity. Born in Yorkshire and graduate of...

H ow can New Covenant Christians sing Old Covenant Psalms? In my previous post we looked at William Ames' (1576-1633) resolution of the "case of conscience" of singing "imprecatory Psalms." The well-known words of Jesus, "pray for those who persecute you" (Matt. 5:44), are often used as...

Robert Kolb, Irene Dingel, and L’ubomir Batka, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther’s Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). 662pp. Hardcover. M artin Luther is one of the most influential figures in world history in the past five hundred years. This is true in the West, even where...

One of my favorite Puritans is William Ames (1576–1633). Not only are his writings precise and to the point, he was so Puritan that as an English-speaker he was exiled amidst the Dutch Reformed! Sounds like someone I know. In his monumental treatise on Puritan casuistry, De Conscientia (1630),...

L et me close this series on assurance (parts 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ) with some cautions about using the "signs of grace" to gain assurance. First , be careful how you define the marks of grace . On the one hand, do not require such signs of yourself as no Christian has in this life. A true Christian...

Trouble in Bakersfield I started thinking about John Bunyan (and writing this post) recently after reading Carl Trueman’s article, Trouble in Bakersfield . He highlights the demise of American pluralism where the majority sets the tone of culture while respecting the convictions of even the...

E ver since I studied the Antinomian-Neonomian controversy that took place among the English Dissenters in London during the final decade of the seventeenth century, I have wanted to write on the debate itself. Part of the impetus for this was that during my studies the Federal Vision controversy...