Oliver Cromwell & the current elections
I must confess to having enormous admiration for that most controversial of figures, Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), about whom two or three new books have appeared this year. The reason for my admiration...
View ArticleFabulous discovery about Thomas Wilcox (1622-1687), author of a minor...
“Praying will make thee leave sinning or sinning will make leave praying.” [1] This well-known saying may well have originated with Thomas Wilcox (1622-1687), the author of the minor spiritual classic...
View ArticleDid the Puritans dislike Christmas pudding?
Last fall while speaking at Hespeler Baptist Church on the Puritans a friend gave me a page she had found in the catalogue of a British firm that shipped various British foods overseas. This particular...
View ArticleWilliam Gurnall
If anyone has any leads as to where to find substantial biographical information about the Puritan William Gurnall (beyond the standard biographical dictionaries), would you be so kind as to e-mail me...
View ArticleHenry Coppinger
Lavenham parish church is reckoned to be one of the most beautiful Anglican church buildings in the entire county of Suffolk, something that I can attest from personal experience, having visited the...
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Free Mini-Conference on the 350th Anniversary of the Puritan Ejection of 1662
Religious Liberty and the Cross: 1662 and the Persecution of the Puritans Date: Wednesday, April 18th Time: 9:30 am – 12:00 pm Location: Legacy Hotel, 3rd Floor (SBTS Campus) Lectures: Dr. Michael...
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Conference Audio Posted for “Religious Liberty and the Cross”
Audio of our most recent mini-conference, “Religious Liberty and the Cross: 1662 and the Persecution of the Puritans,” is now online on the conference page. I have posted the links to the audio files...
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Thomas Doolittle on eyeing Eternity
By Dustin Bruce Gospel preachers are prone to developing a lazy eye when it comes to viewing the present in light of eternity. In a sermon entitled, “How We Should Eye Eternity, That It May Influence...
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On Puritan Preaching
By Nathan Finn In his wonderful book A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life (Crossway, 1990), J.I. Packer includes a chapter titled “Puritan Preaching.” It’s a gem of a chapter...
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Fuller’s Three Classes of Religious Dissenters
By Dustin Bruce Often when considering the English Reformation, we distinguish only between those who remained within the newly formed Church of England and those who dissented from it. In “A Brief...
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Two new works on Covenant Theology in its Baptist expression
By Jeff Robinson One of the theological questions I have been asked most often during my first 24 months as pastor has been some version of this query: Do Baptists believe Covenant Theology or is that...
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Boston Not Jerusalem
By Ryan Patrick Hoselton The Boston Marathon bombing represents a society that is worlds apart from the Boston inhabited by the Puritan Increase Mather (1639-1723). Abhorrent evils perpetrated in any...
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Children and Church History
By Dustin Bruce Recent years have witnessed a recovery of biblical teaching related to the responsibility of Christian parents to be their children’s primary disciplers. Groups like The Center for...
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Puritan Manliness
By Evan D. Burns John Owen has been called the John Calvin of England, and he is arguably the greatest of all the Puritan writers. Summarizing Owen’s spirituality, J.I. Packer compares contemporary...
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An Orthodox Catechism: New Book Edited by Michael Haykin and Steve Weaver
By Steve Weaver Michael A.G. Haykin and I have edited Hercules Collins’ An Orthodox Catechism (1680). This catechism was itself a revision of the 1563 Heidelberg Catechism loved and used by Protestants...
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Are Baptists Reformers, Radicals, or Restorationists?
By Nathan A. Finn If you spend much time studying Baptist history and thought, you know that a perennial debate concerns Baptist origins, early theological influences, and any bearing those topics...
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Preaching from the “Spiritual Sense”
By Evan D. Burns The Puritan John Owen argued that preachers must have “experience of the power of the truth which they preach in and upon their own souls…. A man preacheth that sermon only well unto...
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A Puritan plea for intolerance and a Puritan imprecatory prayer
By Michael A.G. Haykin It was Oliver Cromwell who once noted that every sect cries for toleration, but once they have it, they will not give it to any other body of believers. He knew the heart of all...
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William Ames’s Holy Logic
By Ryan Patrick Hoselton One of the few things I remember from my freshman philosophy class is learning about the syllogism. The syllogism is a logical tool used to deduce a conclusion from a major and...
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Remembering Matthew Henry
By Michael A.G. Haykin Matthew Henry (1662-1714), who died June 22 exactly three hundred years ago, is rightly remembered as a leading figure among early eighteenth-century Dissent. His devotional...
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