The Spirituality of the Later English Puritans: An AnthologyDewey D. Wallace Mercer University Press, 1987 - 246 pages |
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Page vii
... devotional writing flourished . The selections chosen follow an introductory essay that portrays the themes and techniques of Puritan spirituality . A word may be in order as to how I am using those much - debated terms Puritan and ...
... devotional writing flourished . The selections chosen follow an introductory essay that portrays the themes and techniques of Puritan spirituality . A word may be in order as to how I am using those much - debated terms Puritan and ...
Page xi
... devotional movement , rooted in religious experience , " and that " the rise of Puritanism and the settlement of New England ought to be understood as a significant episode in the ongoing history of Christian spirituality . " 1 Perry ...
... devotional movement , rooted in religious experience , " and that " the rise of Puritanism and the settlement of New England ought to be understood as a significant episode in the ongoing history of Christian spirituality . " 1 Perry ...
Page xii
... devotional and spiritual side of religion that swept across European Christendom as a whole , as a more settled Protestantism turned to the cultivation of the implications of its teaching for piety , while a resurgent Roman Catholicism ...
... devotional and spiritual side of religion that swept across European Christendom as a whole , as a more settled Protestantism turned to the cultivation of the implications of its teaching for piety , while a resurgent Roman Catholicism ...
Page xiv
... devotional writer as well as a doughty and tenacious disputant . Many of these persons had been too young to play major roles in the years of the earlier Puritan struggles and spent most of their pastoral lives in the years between the ...
... devotional writer as well as a doughty and tenacious disputant . Many of these persons had been too young to play major roles in the years of the earlier Puritan struggles and spent most of their pastoral lives in the years between the ...
Page xvi
... devotional practice . " ' 11 וויי . " You must despair of ever seeing the face of God without holiness , " said Joseph Al- leine , underlining the insistence of Puritan spirituality that the converted soul must go be- yond conversion to ...
... devotional practice . " ' 11 וויי . " You must despair of ever seeing the face of God without holiness , " said Joseph Al- leine , underlining the insistence of Puritan spirituality that the converted soul must go be- yond conversion to ...
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
able Affections afflictions assurance believe better blessed body Book called cause Children Christ Christian Church comfort coming concerns consider continued conversion Creatures dear death desire devotional Divine doth Duty dying Earth eternal excellent expect experience expressed eyes Faith Father fear follow Friends give Glory God's Godliness grace hand hast hath hear heart Heaven heavenly Hell holy hope hour Jesus John leave live London look Lord matter means Meditation mind Ministers nature never night persons poor Practice praise pray Prayer preaching present Press Prison promise Puritan ready receive Religion repent rest Saints saith Salvation sins soul speak spiritual suffer sure sweet taken tell thee things Thomas thou thoughts tion trouble true turn Union unto
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