The Spirituality of the Later English Puritans: An AnthologyDewey D. Wallace Mercer University Press, 1987 - 246 pages |
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Page xv
... converted , or undergo the new birth , often detailing the stages entailed therein , and in the importance placed upon soul winning , or the conversion of others , as one of the mani- festations of a truly spiritual life . So far as the ...
... converted , or undergo the new birth , often detailing the stages entailed therein , and in the importance placed upon soul winning , or the conversion of others , as one of the mani- festations of a truly spiritual life . So far as the ...
Page xvi
... converted soul must go be- yond conversion to actual holiness of life . In The Gospel - Mystery of Sanctification Opened in Sundry Practical Directions , Walter Marshall outlined fourteen directions on how to proceed to holiness . It ...
... converted soul must go be- yond conversion to actual holiness of life . In The Gospel - Mystery of Sanctification Opened in Sundry Practical Directions , Walter Marshall outlined fourteen directions on how to proceed to holiness . It ...
Page xviii
... conversion and holiness . John Owen wrote several large works on the Holy Spirit . However technical and scholastic , their ultimate focus was on the spiritual life made pos- sible by the Holy Spirit . Puritan theologians and devotional ...
... conversion and holiness . John Owen wrote several large works on the Holy Spirit . However technical and scholastic , their ultimate focus was on the spiritual life made pos- sible by the Holy Spirit . Puritan theologians and devotional ...
Page xx
... converted and to acknowledge that their conversion was God's work . They thus insisted that redemption was a gratuitous , supernatural renewal that came from God at the same time that they bypassed intricate discussion of the im ...
... converted and to acknowledge that their conversion was God's work . They thus insisted that redemption was a gratuitous , supernatural renewal that came from God at the same time that they bypassed intricate discussion of the im ...
Page xxiv
... conversion that he had scoffed at godly persons . 29 The persecution of the godly raised serious problems about the workings of God's providence . Puritan spiritual writers , especially after 1660 with the failure of Puritan hopes ...
... conversion that he had scoffed at godly persons . 29 The persecution of the godly raised serious problems about the workings of God's providence . Puritan spiritual writers , especially after 1660 with the failure of Puritan hopes ...
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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