Anthony Burgess excels in expounding Christ’s mediatorial prayer for us.

John Bunyan is great on advocating praying in the Spirit.

Thomas Boston is helpful in linking prayer to our adoption.

Jonathan Edwards taught prayer as an experience of the divine Trinity.

Matthew Henry probably has the most to teach us about prayer; he excels at offering methods for continual, growing prayer that are biblical, practical, and realistic.

(h.t. Desiring God)

Tolle lege!

Table of Contents

BIBLICAL STUDIES

Our View of the Old Testament—David Murray

The Father’s Love for His Son—Bartel Elshout

The Age of the Spirit and Revival—Joel R. Beeke

SYSTEMATIC AND HISTORICAL THEOLOGY

Jerome Zanchi on Union with Christ and Justification—J. V. Fesko

Calvin on Sovereignty, Providence, and Predestination—Joel R. Beeke

Puritan Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Preambles and Projections—Randall J. Pederson

Reformed, Puritan, and Baptist: A Comparison of the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith to the 1646 Westminster Confession of Faith—Paul M. Smalley

A Half Reformation: English Puritanism According to Samuel Rutherford—Michael Brown

EXPERIENTIAL THEOLOGY

The Puritan Doctrine of Preparationism—Cor Harinck

The Content and Context of Jacobus Koelman’s Remarks on Thomas Hooker’s The Soules Humiliation—Pieter Rouwendal

Jonathan Edwards and A Divine and Supernatural Light—Kevin C. Carr

An Uncommon Union: Understanding Jonathan Edwards’s Experimental Calvinism—William M. Schweitzer

PASTORAL THEOLOGY AND MISSIONS

William Ames and the church’s Worship: A Puritan’s Analysis of a Contemporary Question—Jonathon Beeke

Handling a High Mystery: The Westminster Confession on Preaching Predestination—Daniel R. Hyde

John Owen’s Principles of Nonconformity—James E. Dolezal

Consider Christ in Affliction: An Open Letter to True Believers—Joel R. Beeke

”Surely It is Worth While”: William Carey’s Personal Application of His Enquiry—Nathan A. Finn

CONTEMPORARY AND CULTURAL ISSUES

On Theological Writing—Ryan M. McGraw

William S. Plumer on Pastoral Writing—Ryan M. McGraw

The First Amendment’s Religion Clauses: The Calvinist Document that Interprets Them Both—Leah Farish

BOOK REVIEWS

Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, vol. 4—Roger Nicole

Iain M. Duguid, Daniel—Lane Keister

Cornelis P. Venema, Children at the Lord’s Table: Assessing the Case for Paedocommunion—Ryan M. McGraw

Jason Zuidema, Peter Martyr Vermigli, and the Outward Instruments of Divine Grace—Carl Schouls

BIBLICAL STUDIES

Bright Shadows: Preaching Christ from the Old Testament (2)—David Murray

Heart-Reading: Recovering a Spiritual Approach to the Bible—Gerald Bilkes

Significance of Suffering in the Study of First Peter—Brian Najapfour

Love of the Brethren in 1 John and Church History—Michael A.G. Haykin

SYSTEMATIC AND HISTORICAL THEOLOGY

Cur Deus Homo? A Closer Look at the Atonement Theories of Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux—Jonathon Beeke

Calvin on the Promises of God—Pieter DeVries

Omnipotent Sweetness? Puritanism versus Socinianism—Joel M. Heflin

“To Walk According to the Gospel”: The Origin and History of The Marrow of Modern Divinity—William Van Doodewaard

The Reformed Dogmatics of G.H. Kersten Compared with His Older Contemporaries, Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck—Pieter Rouwendal

EXPERIENTIAL THEOLOGY

Calvin as an Experiential Preacher—Joel R. Beeke

Blessedness in the Piety of William Perkins: Objective Reality or Subjective Experience?—Stephen Yuille

The Biblical-Experimental Foundations of Jonathan Edwards’s Theology of Religious Experience, 1720–1723—Karin Spiecker Stetina

PASTORAL THEOLOGY AND MISSIONS

According to the Custom of the Ancient Church? Examining the Roots of John Calvin’s Liturgy—Daniel R. Hyde

John Calvin and Missions—Derek Thomas

Five Reasons why the Sabbath is Designed for Worship—Ryan M. McGraw

CONTEMPORARY AND CULTURAL ISSUES

Can We Hope for a Neocalvinist-Neopuritan Dialogue?—Ray Pennings

Because Men Love Darkness: Culture’s Dangerous Infatuation with Halloween—David J. Bissett

Interview with Joel Beeke about Reformed Churches and Seminaries

REVIEW ARTICLES

Theology of the Old Testament—Pieter DeVries

Continuity or Discontinuity in Evangelical History—Sharon James

Jay E. Adams, Keeping the Sabbath Today?—Ryan M. McGraw

The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism—Randall J. Pederson

BOOK REVIEWS

R. Albert Mohler, Jr., He is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World—Allen R. Mickle, Jr.

Wendy Horger Alsup, Practical Theology for Women: How Knowing God Makes a Difference in our Daily Lives—Tracy Mickle

Josh Moody, The God-Centered Life: Insights from Jonathan Edwards for Today—Allen R. Mickle, Jr.

M. X. Lesser, Reading Jonathan Edwards: An Annotated Bibliography in Three Parts, 1729–2005—Randall J. Pederson

George Marsden, A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards—Randall J. Pederson

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If 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 would have said, “Thomas Goodwin.” I may be an oddball, but—dare I say it—I’ve usually gotten more out of reading Goodwin than reading John Owen.

The first collection of Goodwin’s works was published in five folio volumes in London from 1681 to 1704, under the editorship of Thankful Owen, Thomas Baron, and Thomas Goodwin Jr. An abridged version of those works was later printed in four volumes (London, 1847–50). This reprinted twelve-volume edition was printed by James Nichol (Edinburgh, 1861–66) in the Nichol’s Series of Standard Divines. It is far superior to the original five folio volumes.

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