The Spirituality of the Later English Puritans: An AnthologyDewey D. Wallace Mercer University Press, 1987 - 246 pages |
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Page vii
... Church of England who sought further reform in that church from the time of Queen Elizabeth I ( if not from the time of Edward VI ) until the exclusion of Nonconformists from the established church in 1662 . But the persons who led and ...
... Church of England who sought further reform in that church from the time of Queen Elizabeth I ( if not from the time of Edward VI ) until the exclusion of Nonconformists from the established church in 1662 . But the persons who led and ...
Page xii
... church his- tory that regards the evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century as a new departure after generations of religious deadness . In fact , the evangelical revivals were continuations ( and simplifications ) of seventeenth ...
... church his- tory that regards the evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century as a new departure after generations of religious deadness . In fact , the evangelical revivals were continuations ( and simplifications ) of seventeenth ...
Page xiii
... Church of En- gland , some of whose bishops they regarded as their allies in the promotion of piety . The production of spiritual literature grew in the generations after these first Puritans , as a further development and refinement of ...
... Church of En- gland , some of whose bishops they regarded as their allies in the promotion of piety . The production of spiritual literature grew in the generations after these first Puritans , as a further development and refinement of ...
Page xiv
... church , though some of the Presbyterians still hankered after inclusion in the Church of England . They were also united in their Calvinism , except for followers of Richard Baxter with their moderating of Calvinist distinctives , and ...
... church , though some of the Presbyterians still hankered after inclusion in the Church of England . They were also united in their Calvinism , except for followers of Richard Baxter with their moderating of Calvinist distinctives , and ...
Page xxii
... Church Book recorded the death of a person who " poured out a flood of choice matter in his last minutes . " ' 25 The medieval treatises on dying portrayed Satan as making a last assault at this vul- nerable moment , and Bunyan wrote ...
... Church Book recorded the death of a person who " poured out a flood of choice matter in his last minutes . " ' 25 The medieval treatises on dying portrayed Satan as making a last assault at this vul- nerable moment , and Bunyan wrote ...
Contents
Holy Lives and Holy Deaths | 1 |
Thomas Manton To the Reader | 2 |
Introduction to Edmund Trench Some Remarkable Passages in the Holy Life and Death of the late Reverend Mr Edmund Trench | 4 |
Introduction to Samuel Clarke The Life and Death of Mrs Katherine Clarke | 17 |
Introduction to James Janeway A Token for Children and Invisibles Realities | 32 |
Introduction to Theodosia Alleine A full Narrative of his Life | 53 |
Introduction to A Murderer Punished and Pardoned | 79 |
Holy Meditations | 99 |
Introduction to Thomas Doolittle A Treatise Concerning the Lords Supper | 145 |
Holy Comforts for the Afflicted and Uncertain | 155 |
Introduction to Edmund Calamy The Godly Mans Ark | 156 |
Introduction to Benjamin Keach The Travels of True Godliness | 173 |
Introduction to Joseph Alleine Christian Letters | 179 |
Introduction to William Bates The Danger of Prosperity | 194 |
Introduction to Thomas Brooks A Cabinet of Choice Jewels | 196 |
Introduction to Walter Marshall The GospelMystery of Sanctification | 208 |
Introduction to William Bates A Discourse of Divine Meditation | 100 |
Introduction to Benjamin Keach Poems from The Glorious Lover and War with the Devil | 108 |
Introduction to Ralph Venning A Spiritual Garden of Sweetsmelling Flowers | 113 |
Introduction to John Flavel Husbandry Spiritualized and Navigation Spiritualized | 119 |
Introduction to Thomas Vincent Gods Terrible Yoke in the City | 141 |
Holy Expectations | 219 |
Introduction to Edward Pearse The Great Concern | 220 |
Introduction to Theophilus Gale A Discourse of Christs Coming | 231 |
Introduction to William Bates The Four Last Things | 239 |
Common terms and phrases
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