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Resource 1. PURITAN
DIVINES
Puritan Sermons Before the
English House of Commons (1640-1641)
This is a collection of Puritan sermons preached
to "the Honourable House of Commons... Assembled in Parliament" in
London at various times during the years 1640 and 1641. This volume includes:
"The First Sermon, Preached to the Honourable House... at their Public
Fast" by Cornelius Burgess (Nov. 17, 1640); "Sions Joy" by Jeremiah
Burroughs
(Sept. 7, 1641); "A Peace-Offering to God" by Stephen Marshall (Sept. 7, 1641);
"The Love of Truth and Peace" by John Gauden (Nov. 29, 1640); and
two other sterling examples of nation-directing second Reformation sermons. Burgess, in the final
sermon, exposes the Popish and Jesuitical traitors in the land, while also
demonstrating how their treason was the outgrowth of their false and wicked
religion, as well as their hatred for God and the truths of the Reformation. These sermons to the civil authorities were an encouragement
to further Reformation and played their part in rousing the civil ministers to
their calling. They also assisted in laying
some of the necessary groundwork which eventually led the parliament to call
the Westminster Assembly. Furthermore,
they helped to stir these governors to their duty of covenanting the land to
Christ, which was later
accomplished in the international swearing of the Solemn League and Covenant.
Over 350 pages.
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Resource 2.
BURROUGHS, JEREMIAH
The Rare Jewel of Christian
Contentment
We live our lives in a discontented world and it
is all too easy for the Christian to share its spirit. This book remedies this
spiritual disease in practical biblical ways. Another
in the Puritan Paperbacks series from Banner of Truth.
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Resource 3. MURRAY,
IAIN H.
The Puritan Hope: Revival and
the Interpretation of Prophecy
One of the most thoroughly
documented historical books on eschatology and its connection to revival and
missions.
A powerfully encouraging study of the biblical and Reformed teaching on the
Christian's hope in this world and in the prospect of the triumph of the
gospel. Shows how the optimistic eschatology of Scripture made the Puritans of
old, mighty men of valour in battling for the kingdom and glory of God. This is
a book that is hard to put down. Published by Banner of Truth.
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Resource 4. SMITH,
THOMAS
Select Memoirs of the Lives,
Labours, and Sufferings, of Those Pious and Learned English and Scottish
Divines, Who Greatly Distinguished Themselves in Promoting the Reformation from
Popery; In Translating the Bible; and in Promulgating Its Salutary Doctrines by
Their Numerous Evangelical Writings; and Who Ultimately Crowned the Venerable
Edifice with the Celebrated Westminster Confession of Faith, etc. etc. etc. (1828)
"The Work with the lives of those
renowned English Worthies, who introduced and effected the glorious Reformation
from popery, and concludes with those, who, unsatisfied
with the splendid ceremonial and Romish peculiarities of the church of England,
could not conscientiously conform to her superstitious ritual, and were therefore denominated Non-conformists or Puritans. The Reformation of the church of Christ was the sole object
of both, their opinions were the same, and it will be difficult to determine
who suffered most, or acted the better part. The same reasons that
induced the former to labour for the Reformation from Popery induced the latter
to exert themselves for the Reformation of the church of England. Their
labours, their influence, and their zeal, were devoted to this desirable work,
and notwithstanding that they endeavoured, by the most peaceable means, to purge the church, of which they were members, from all
its antchristian impurities, they were branded with the name puritans,
and many of them, for their non-conformity, suffered suspension, imprisonment,
and persecution even unto death. The Work will therefore furnish the reader
with a circumstantial account of the arduous conflict of religious liberty,
from the days of John Wickliffe. Here he will find some of the merciless
proceedings of the court of High Commission and the Star-Chamber, two terrible
engine's of cruelty and injustice, whose unparalleled oppressions, and
unprecedented barbarities, in place of reconciling men to the unity of the
established religion, drove them farther and farther off, confirmed them in
their non-conformity, alienated their minds from the prelatical priesthood, and
greatly increased their own number and reputation. In a Work of this nature, it
appeared necessary to give the reader some account of the errors,
encroachments, and corruptions of the Romish church, that led to the long and
arduous struggle before us. This he will find in the Historical Sketch of the
Christian Church (From the Ascension of Christ -- RB), with which the Memoirs
are introduced." (Preface, pp. vii-viii). Also
included is a "Short Introduction to the Lives of the Puritans."
This is a major historical work, both for scope and accuracy. It covers the lives of 132 principal Reformers; among them:
Ames, Baille, Baxter, Bolton, Bradford, the Burgess' (both Anthony and
Cornelius), Case, Cawdrey, Coverdale, Cotton, Fox, Gillespie, Goodman, Goodwin,
Henderson, Hooker, Hooper, Janeway, Latimer, Lightfoot, Ridley, Rogers,
Rutherford, Sibbs, Tyndale, Vines, and a host of others. For the
book-lover, researcher and student (of the historical and doctrinal struggle
for Reformation), a convenient and helpful list
of books by each author covered is appended to the end of each memoir.
724 pages.
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Resource 5.
COVENANTED MINISTERS OF SCOTLAND
Sermons in Times of
Persecution in Scotland (1880 edition)
This book (of 674 pages) records some of the most powerful sermons ever put into print,
most being delivered during the "killing times" in Scotland.
These faithful preachers were daily in danger of
losing their earthly lives for their testimony to the truth of Christ's
kingship (which they proclaim here) -- and many were eventually martyred for
His covenanted cause. The original title of this book, instructive in
itself, read (in part), "A Collection of Lectures and Sermons Preached
upon Several Subjects, Mostly in the Time of the Late Persecution. Wherein a
Faithful Doctrinal Testimony is Transmitted to Posterity for the Doctrine,
Worship, Discipline and Government of the Church of Scotland against Popery,
Prelacy, Erastianism, etc.... and a Sermon on the Breach of Covenant by Mr.
John Guthrie." Each set of sermons in this
book is prefaced with a helpful three to six page biographical notice.
The following ministers are included (with the number of their sermons in this
book noted in parentheses after their name): William Guthrie (17); Michael Bruce (3); John Weldwood (4); Richard Cameron (7 sermons and 1
lecture); Donald Cargill (7 sermons and 3 lectures); Alexander Peden (2); Alexander
Shields
(2 sermons and 1 lecture); John Livingstone (1 sermon and 1
sacramental discourse); John Welch (1 sermon and 1 sacramental discourse); John
Guthrie
(1). Includes illustrations and the original preface (written March 19, 1779)
by John Howie
(author of The Scots Worthies). An instructive and
useful commemorative sermon, "A Third Reformation Necessary: or, The
Piety, Principles, and Patriotism of Scotland's Covenanted Martyrs; With
Application to the Present Times," by Kerr, preached on the bi-cententary
of the covenanting struggle, is also included.
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Resource 6. PIERCE,
JAMES
A Vindication of the
Dissenters (1718, second edition, corrected)
Written "In Answer to Dr. William Nichols's
Defence of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England," this
work was first written in Latin and then translated into English. It is a massive (605 pages) and detailed history and doctrinal
defense of the Dissenters and "An Appeal to Foreign Divines, Professors,
and all other Learned Men of the Reformed Religion." Part one covers the history and controversies surrounding
nonconformity, drawing from sources ancient to the author's day (in 288 pages). Part two is titled "Concerning the Doctrine of the
Church of England." It deals with separation, backsliding into Popish
ways, civil resistance, the power of the magistrate and numerous other topics
of importance to Reformed Christians. Part 3,
"Concerning Discipline, and Modes of Worship," systematically exposes
numerous specific errors of the Prelates (in worship and government), while
defending the testimony of the Dissenters. Chapters in this section
include, "Of the Government of Bishops," "Of Singing and Music
in Churches," "Of the Public Liturgy," "Of the Sign of the
Cross in Baptism," "Of Godfathers and Godmothers," "Of
Confirmation," "Of the Surplice, and other Ecclesiastical
Habits," "Of the Ring in Marriage," "Of Kneeling at the
Sacraments," "Of the Observation of Holidays," "Of Bowing
in the Name of Jesus," "Of Reading Apocryphal books in the
Church," Of the Faults found with the English Liturgy," and much
more. This last section is particularly revealing,
as it exposes how far many, in our day, that claim to be Reformed (like Steve
Schlissel), have actually backslidden into the rejected ways of Popery and
Prelacy -- casting off some of the greatest attainments of the Reformation
(notably the second Reformation) in the process. This is especially evident in the modern
"Reformed" rejection of the regulative principle of worship and the
subsequent (ignorant) embracing of many worship practises which our worthy
Reformed forefathers rightly abominated (as idolatry), confessed outside the
church, and sometimes even gave their lives fighting against. This
book might be called a miniature encyclopaedia of dissent. It should not be
overlooked by those interested in the great Puritan revolution which Pierce
here defends -- a revolution which is once again being revived (by the power of
Almighty God) in our day and is destined to one day cover the whole earth!
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Resource 7.
WESTMINSTER DIVINES & OTHER PURITANS (Gouge, Gataker, et al.)
The Westminster Annotations
and Commentary on the Whole Bible
(6 volumes, 1657)
The original title read: "Annotations Upon
all the Books of the Old and New Testament: This Third, above the First and
Second, Edition so enlarged, As they make an entire Commentary on the Sacred
Scriptures: The like never before published in English. Wherein the Text is
Explained, Doubts Resolved, Scripture Parallel'd, and Various Readings
observed; By the Labour of certain Learned Divines thereunto appointed, and
therein employed, As is expressed in the Preface." The preface (found in
the first volume) recounts not only a short history of
the English Bible, but sets forth the great advantage to true Religion which
accrues (contrary to the mysticism of the Anabaptists and the
anti-intellectualism of the modern backsliding church) when faithful notes are
"bound in" with the Scripture text -- this bringing forth
nothing different than the effect generated (through God's grace) by faithful
preaching, faithful commentaries, faithful creeds, faithful covenants, faithful
confessions, etc. Pointing out that this blessing from God was never more
obvious than in the case of the Geneva Bible ($159.95, leather
hardcover) and its marginal notes (and that the people knew it to be so when
they were left with Bibles without annotations honoring to God), the preface
further states, "hence were divers of the Stationers and Printers of
London induced (by the people--RB) to petition the committee of the Honourable
House of Commons, for licence to print the Geneva notes upon the Bible, or
that some notes might be fitted to the new translation: which was accordingly
granted, with an order for review and correction of those of the Geneva
edition, by leaving out such of them as there was cause to dislike, by clearing
those that were doubtful, and by supplying such as were defective. For which purpose
letters were directed to some of us from the Chair of the Committee for
Religion (in 1648--RB), and personal invitations to others, to undertake and
divide the task among us, and so cometh in our part, whereof we shall give the
world a true and just account in that which followeth." The detailed
account which follows in the preface is fascinating, mentioning, among many
other things, the divines' "use of... the Dutch Bibles... set forth
at... Holland, by order of the States."
The diligence given, the energy expended, the
obvious humility, and the fearful trembling before God's Word which is evident
in these commentators makes this truly a classic Puritan work -- a work of great
value! Just knowing, as Barker points out, that this commentary was "prepared mostly by Westminster divines, by order of
Parliament, at the time of the Assembly" (Puritan Profiles, p. 37), certainly
bodes well for the level of scholarship it contains. Moreover, with Gouge, one
of the most respected English Covenanters at the Assembly playing a major role,
the thoughtful student of Scripture and history ought to take note: for a theological feast of mature Puritan thought surely
awaits those that sup at this table. Esteemed, by the mid-1640's,
"as the father of the London Ministers," Gouge was elected as
Assessor for the Westminster Assembly on Nov. 25, 1647. His detractors
sometimes called him an "arch Puritan" (cf. Ibid., p. 35). Dr. Gouge's
"share of the useful work consisted of Kings, and the subsequent books
down to Esther, inclusive" (Smith, Select Memoirs of English and
Scottish Divines,
p. 534). Most of the others chosen to this work had similar credentials, though
not all exhibit equal proficiency and some later backslid from attainments
reached at this point. Nevertheless, when the commentators were first chosen,
these Annotations were produced by some of the most
qualified English Puritans -- as a historical high water mark for Puritan
scholarship was beginning to crest. Furthermore, in prosecuting this
work the divines note, "therefore we have put ourselves to much more pains
(for many months) in consulting with many more authors, in several languages,
than at first we thought of, that (for the propriety of the original text, for
pertinent and profitable variety of versions, for consonancy of parallel
Scriptures, and for perspicuity in clearing of the darkest places) we might
bring in such observations, as might not only serve to edify the ordinary
reader, but might likewise gratify our brethren of the ministry, at least such
among them, as have not the means to purchase, or leisure to pursue, so many
books, as (by order of the Committee) we were furnished with all, for the
finishing of the work, committed to our hands" (preface). As the work wore
on, however, it became apparent that the original intention (of printing these
annotations as marginal notes in the Bible) would no longer fit the scope and
length of commentary that had been produced. Thus, the notes were not added to
the Scriptures directly, but rather published as a separate commentary (which
we are offering here) -- except that we have divided the work into six volumes
rather than the original two, because of logistics.
Brook calls this a "useful work" and says
of its authors that "several of them were celebrated puritans" (Lives
of the Puritans,
vol. 3, p. 221n). Spurgeon comments that it "contains valuable
remarks" and that "the work is probably less esteemed than it should
be" (Commenting and Commentaries). In "A Narrative of His Life and
Death" prefixed to volume one of Gouge's three volume commentary on
Hebrews ($99.00 HP, $59.99 P), we also find this note, "He was likewise
chosen by a Committee of Parliament, among others, to make Annotations upon the
Bible, being well-known to be a judicious interpreter of Scripture. How well he
hath performed his trust is evident to all that read the annotations from the
beginning of the first book of Kings unto Job, which was his part."
Furthermore, Neal,
in his history, furnishes us with a helpful (though partial) list of each of
the specific authors and books of the Bible they worked on in the Annotations.
He writes, "Those with asterisks were not of the assembly. Rev. Mr. Ley,
subdean of Chester (The commentary on the five books of Moses), Dr. Gouge (1
& 2 Kings, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther), *Mr. Meric Casaubon
(The Psalms), Mr Francis Taylor (Proverbs), Dr. Reynolds (Ecclesiastes), *Mr
Smallwood, recommended by archbishop Usher (Solomon's Song), Mr. Gataker
(Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations), *Mr. Pemberton in the first edition and
*Bishop Richardson in the second (Ezekiel, Daniel, and the smaller Prophets),
Mr. Ley (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John), Dr. D. Featly... (St. Paul's Epistles).
There were two other persons concerned in this work, who might probably have
the other parts of Scripture allotted them, not here mentioned, viz. Mr.
Downham and Mr. Reading" (pp. 504-505).
Additionally, as should be evident, the
Annotations were not, strictly speaking, a work of the Westminster Assembly per
se, but rather a work primarily by men who attended the Westminster Assembly -- including a few
others chosen to this task by Parliament. Notwithstanding, we thought it
prudent to title this work in accord with one of the primary names by which it
has come to be commonly known (i.e "The Westminster Annotations"). As
with much of the literature that was produced by those attending the
Westminster Assembly, or by those sympathetic to their work, the modern reader has much to gain by carefully considering
the words of these spiritual giants. This work is no exception and we
pray that this newly published edition will strengthen and unite the church,
turn individuals to righteousness, uplift the family, and help direct the
nations to the covenanting love that surrounded the work at the Westminster
Assembly in the seventeenth century -- and in all this bring glory to God! 2383 (8.5" X
11") pages.
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Resource 8.
PERKINS, WILLIAM
The Foundation of Christian
Religion Gathered Into Fixed Principles (1608)
Interestingly, just below the title on the front
cover of this 756 page book we find the words: "And it is to be learned of
ignorant people, that they may be fit to hear sermons with profit, and to
receive the Lord's Supper with comfort." "Called
'the principal architect of Elizabethan Puritanism' and 'the most important
Puritan writer, Perkins was the first theologian of the reformed English church
to gain an international reputation," writes McKim (Encyclopaedia
of the Reformed Faith,
p. 274). This hefty tome contains the following works by Perkins: "A
Golden Chain: Or, The Description of Theology, Containing the order of the
causes of Salvation and Damnation... Hereunto is adjoined the order which M.
Theodore Beza
used in comforting afflicted consciences;" "An Exposition of the
Symbol or Creed of the Apostles;" "An Exposition of the Lord's
Prayer, In the Way of Catechizing Serving for Ignorant People;" "A
Treatise Tending Unto a Declaration Whether a Man Be in the Estate of Damnation,
or in the Estate of Grace: And if He Be in the First, How He May in Time Come
Out of it: If in the Second, How He May Discern It, and Persevere in the Same
to the End;" "A Case of Conscience, the Greatest that Ever Was: How a
Man May Know Whether He Be the Child of God, or No (Whereunto is added a brief
discourse taken out of H. Zanchius);" "A Direction for the Government of
the Tongue According to God's Word;" "Two Treatises: 1. On the Nature
and Practice of Repentance; 2. Of the Combat of the Flesh and the Spirit;"
"A Treatise How To Live Well, In All Estates and Times, Specially When
Helps and Comforts Fail;" "The Treatise of Dying Well;" "A
Discourse of Conscience Wherein is Set Down the Nature, Properties, and
Differences Thereof: as Also the Way to Get and Keep a Good Conscience;"
"A Reformed Catholic: Or, A Declaration Showing How Near We May Come to
the Present Church of Rome in Sundry Points of Religion; and Wherein We Must
For Ever Depart From Them -- With an Advertisement to all Favourers of the
Roman Religion, Showing How the Said Religion is Against the Catholic
Principles and Grounds of the Catechism;" "A Declaration of the True
Manner of Knowing Christ Crucified;" "A Grain of Mustard Seed: Or,
The Least Measure of Grace that is or Can Be Effectual to Salvation;"
"The True Gain, More in Worth then All the Goods of the World;"
"A Warning Against Idolatry of the Last Times and an Instruction Touching
Religious Divine Worship;" "A Treatise of God's Free Grace and Man's
Free Will;" A Treatise of the Vocations , Or Callings of Men, With the
Sorts and Kinds of Them, and the Right Use Thereof." "Several of
Perkins' works have been translated into Latin, French, Dutch, and
Spanish"
(Darling, Cyclopaedia Bibliographica: A Library Manual of Theological and
General Literature,
2337).
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Resource 9. POND,
ENOCH
The Seals Opened; Or, The
Apocalypse Explained (1871)
After noting that he found the Jesuit (i.e.
Preterist--RB) method of eschatalogical interpretation unsatisfactory, Pond
tells us how he came to settle on the historic Protestant method of
interpretation (i.e. historicism). Furthermore, he
states that "avoiding the theories of Rationalists and Roman Catholics on
the one hand, and of the Adventists (Premillennialists--RB) on the other, the
plan of interpretation which we have pursued is the same which has been held by
the great body of evangelical ministers and Christians in America and in
England for the last hundred years." Pond
aims to open Revelation to all Christians, but also deals with some
controversial points in chapters which deal with the dating of Revelation and a
review of Moses Stuart's Preterism. 248 pages.
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Resource 10.
DICKSON, DAVID
Truth's Victory Over Error (1684,
1784 edition)
The title continues, "The True Principles of the Christian Religion, Stated and
Vindicated against the following Heresies, viz, Arians, Arminians, Anabaptists,
Antinomians, Brownists, Donatists, Epicurians, Eutychians, Erastians,
Familists, Jesuits, Independents, Libertines, Manicheans, Pelagians, Papists,
Quakers, Socinians, Sabellians, Sceptics, Vaninians, etc. The whole
being a Commentary on all the Chapters of the (Westminster -- RB) Confession of
Faith, by way of Question and Answer: In which, the saving Truths of our holy Religion
are confirmed and established; and the dangerous Errors and Opinions of its
Adversaries detected and confuted... To this Edition is prefixed, A short Account of
the Author's Life, by the late Mr. Robert Wodrow..." 296 pages.
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Resource 11. DICK,
JAMES
Hymns and Hymn Books (1883)
Greg Price calls this one of the best short
defences of exclusive Psalmody. It is excerpted from The Original
Covenanter
magazine (Dec, 1883, vol. 3, No. 12). Here is a taste of Dick's writing,
"Hymns of human composition are used so commonly now in public worship by
Presbyterian churches that it is difficult to believe that the practice is not
a hundred years old, and that in some of the churches it is of very recent
date. On the supposition that it is good and dutiful
and wise to sing such hymns in worship, it is equally difficult to account for
the neglect of the churches at the time of the Reformation, and for generations
afterwards. What could have so blinded the reformers as to make them reject
hymns and sing the Psalms alone? How could the Westminster Divines, in framing
their Confession of Faith and Directory for Worship, have been so unanimous in
the blunder that the service of praise is to consist of the 'singing of
Psalms?' And apart from the aspect of duty, how could the
Presbyterian churches, for about a hundred and fifty or two hundred years after
the Westminster Assembly, have been so insensible to the power of hymns as an
attractive addition to their public services? We
cannot by any means understand how it was that, if it was dutiful to use hymns
in worship, the reformers did not discover the Scriptural warrant for the duty,
especially as hymns had been used for centuries by the Church of Rome.
Nor can we understand how they rejected the hymns
and used the Psalms alone, unless on the supposition that they believed the use
of hymns to be part of the will-worship of Rome. If they were wrong
on this point, then Rome and our modern Presbyterian churches are right. In
that case, the Puritans and Covenanters were fanatics, and Romanists were truly
enlightened! And most of our Presbyterian churches of the present day were fanatical
too, and did not become truly enlightened and liberal till they got back to the
Romish practice!"
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Resource 12.
HETHERINGTON, WILLIAM
History of the Westminster
Assembly of Divines (1856)
This book is one of the best easy reading
historical accounts published concerning this unsurpassed Assembly.
Hetherington's purpose for writing this book is stated in the preface as
follows:
In common with all true Presbyterians, I have
often regretted the want of a History of the Westminster Assembly of
Divines...Especially in such a time as the present, when all distinctive
Presbyterian principles are not only called in question, but also
misrepresented and condemned, such a want has become absolutely unendurable,
unless Presbyterians are willing to permit their Church to perish under a load
of unanswered, yet easily refuted, calumny. And as the best refutation of
calumny is the plain and direct statement of truth, it is by that process that
I have endeavored to vindicate the principles and the character of the
Presbyterian Church (p. i.).
The Puritan history leading up to the Assembly
(which this book takes a in-depth look at) is especially important and not only
set the context for what became the major debates among the ministers present,
but even dictated who was selected to this august body of scholars. Civil wars,
national upheavals, emigration to the "new world" and a host of other
epoch making events surrounded this momentous period of history. These debates and their resolutions have defined and
directed Christian thought and national cultures ever since their original
ratification -- and Hetherington is not shy about noting the
significance of this Assembly when he writes,
But the man who penetrates a little deeper into the nature of those unrevealed but powerful influences which move a nation's mind, and mould its destinies, will be ready to direct his attention more profoundly to the objects and deliberations of an assembly which met at a moment so critical, and was composed of the great master-minds of the age; and the theologian who has learned to view religion as the vital principle of human nature, equally in nations and in the individual man, will not easily admit the weak idea, that such an assembly could have been an isolated event, but will be disposed earnestly to inquire what led to its meeting, and what important consequences followed. And although the subject has not hitherto been investigated with such a view, it may, we trust, be