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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 possible to prove, that it (the
Westminster Assembly--RB) was the most important event in the century in which
it occurred; and that it has exerted, and in all probability will yet exert, a
far more wide and permanent influence upon both the civil and the religious
history of mankind than has generally been even imagined (p. 17).
Hetherington covers the period from 1531 to
1662. Many consider this era a historical high
water mark for doctrinal and practical Puritan precision. Also
included is a chapter on the theological productions of the Westminster
Assembly and six valuable appendices (one containing six biographical notices
of the Scottish Commissioners including Rutherford, Gillespie, Henderson and
Baillie).
This work is indispensable for
understanding the work accomplished by the Westminster Assembly, Presbyterian
and Independent history, Cromwell and much more. For example, consider the lofty and
Christ honoring goal of the Assembly as summarized by Hetherington:
There was one great, and even sublime idea,
brought somewhat indefinitely before the Westminster Assembly, which has not
yet been realized, the idea of a Protestant union
throughout Christendom, not merely for the purpose of counterbalancing Popery,
but in order to purify, strengthen, and unite all true Christian churches, so
that with combined energy and zeal they might go forth, in glad compliance with
the Redeemer's commands, teaching all nations, and preaching the everlasting
gospel to every creature under heaven. This truly magnificent, and
also truly Christian idea, seems to have originated in the mind of that
distinguished man, Alexander Henderson. It was suggested by him to the Scottish
commissioners, and by them partially brought before the English Parliament,
requesting them to direct the Assembly to write
letters to the Protestant Churches in France, Holland, Switzerland, and other
Reformed Churches. . . . and along with these letters were sent copies of the
Solemn League and Covenant, a document which might itself form the basis of
such a Protestant union. The deep thinking divines of the
Netherlands apprehended the idea, and in their answer, not only expressed their
approbation of the Covenant, but also desired to join in it with the British
kingdoms.
Nor did they content themselves with the mere expression of approval and willingness
to join. A letter was soon afterwards sent to the Assembly from the Hague,
written by Duraeus (the celebrated John Dury), offering to come to the
Assembly, and containing a copy of a vow which he had prepared and tendered to
the distinguished Oxenstiern, chancellor of Sweden, wherein he bound himself
'to prosecute a reconciliation between Protestants in point of religion'. . . .
[O]n one occasion Henderson procured a passport to go to Holland, most probably
for the purpose of prosecuting this grand idea. But the intrigues of
politicians, the delays caused by the conduct of the Independents, and the
narrow-minded Erastianism of the English Parliament, all conspired to prevent
the Assembly from entering farther into that truly glorious Christian enterprise.
Days of trouble and darkness came; persecution wore out the great men of that
remarkable period; pure and vital Christianity was stricken to the earth and
trampled under foot. (pp. 337-339).
Further demonstrating his grasp of the most
important events of the second Reformation, Hetherington comments on the Solemn League (the epitome of second Reformation
attainments), "no man who is able
to understand its nature, and to feel and appreciate its spirit and its aim,
will deny it to be the wisest, the sublimest, and the most sacred document ever
framed by uninspired men" (p. 134). Anyone interested in the
work of the Westminster Assembly -- and the men, teaching and events which were
at the heart of the Puritan revolution against the forces of antichrist -- should read this
book at least once. Third edition, 413 pages.
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Resource 13. MASON,
ARCHIBALD
The Fall of Babylon the
Great, by the Agency of Christ, and Through the Instrumentality of His
Witnesses: In Four Discourses (1821)
This book is made up of six sermons and one
lengthy lecture. The first two sermons (on Rev. 8:5) deal with "Christ the Mediatorial Angel, Casting the Fire of Divine
Judgments Into the Earth." The next two sermons (on Rev. 11:6)
treat "Christ's Two Witnesses Smiting the
Antichristian Earth With All Plagues, As Often As They Will."
The first four sermons cover 112 pages. These works are followed with "Remarks on the Sixth Vial, Symbolizing the Fall of the
Turkish Empire" on Rev. 16:12 (24 pages), "Remarks on the Seventh Vial, Symbolizing the Fall of
Popery and Despotism" Rev. 16:17 and 21:5,6 (24 pages) and the
final discourse, "Observations on the Public
Covenants Between God and the Church" (104 pages), taking off
from, "They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which
refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the
house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made
with their fathers" (Jer. 11:10). David
Steele, in his classic Notes on the Apocalypse includes Mason among his list of "distinguished and
approved interpreters of the book of Revelation." 264 pages in total.
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Resource 14.
BAILLIE, ROBERT
The Canterburians Self-Conviction:
or an evident demonstration of the avowed Arminianisme, Poperie, and tyrannie
of that faction, by their owne confessions.... (1641)
Baillie was one of the Scottish commissioners
to the Westminster Assembly. An exceedingly rare item, this book was written as the storms of the religious wars between
the Puritans and the Prelates were beginning to blow. These were
days when nations adopted overtly religious presuppositions and books such as
this became international defences of gospel principles against the
ecclesiastical (and political) forces of Antichrist -- and his generation of
vipers. After rehearsing some of the major incidents of Prelatical persecution
against the saints of the most high God, and calling to the English for support
of the Covenanted cause of Christ, Baillie gives this stirring summary of his
motives in writing this book, "behold I here first upon all hazard do
break my pitcher, do hold out my Lamp, and blow my trumpet before the
Commissioners of the whole Kingdom, offering to
convince that prevalent faction by their own mouth, of Arminianism, Popery, and
Tyranny." These were brave and
zealous words, for in that day such speech could eventuate in your death.
This is not only a historically relevant item, but also a fine defense against
the prevailing heresies of the flesh (heresy being a work of the flesh, cf. Gal
5:19-20). The two predominant heresies addressed by
Baillie in this book still cover much of the professing Christian world today;
these being: (1.) false, man-centered views of salvation (Arminianism and
Pelagianism) and (2.) false man-centered views of worship (Liturgical
innovationism: either high church or Charismatic). "Baillie
fought hard against Arminianism" noted Johnston (The Treasury of the
Scottish Covenant,
p. 310); making this book especially valuable for today! This is the third
edition of 128 pages, plus a 28 page postscript.
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Resource 15.
Resource 16.
EDWARDS, THOMAS
The Casting Down of the Last
and Strongest Hold of Satan; Or, A Treatise Against Toleration and Pretended
Liberty of Conscience (1647)
The title continues: "Wherein by Scripture, sound Reason, Fathers, Schoolmen,
Casuists, Protestant Divines of all Nations, Confessions of Faith of the Reformed
Churches, Ecclesiastical Histories, and constant practice of the most pious and
wisest Emperors, Princes, States, the best Writers of Politicks, the experience
of all Ages; yea, by divers Principles, Testimonies and Proceedings of
Sectaries themselves, as Donatists, Anabaptists, Brownists, Independents, the
unlawfulness and mischief in Christian Commonwealths and Kingdoms both of a
Universal Toleration of all Religions and Consciences, and of a limited and
bounded (toleration--RB) of some Sects only, are clearly proved and
demonstrated, with all the material Grounds and Reasons brought for such
Tolerations fully answered." This
title (representing the English Presbyterian position) is very much akin to the
Scottish view found in Samuel Rutherford's classic A Free Disputation
Against Pretended Liberty of Conscience
($39.00 HP, $19.99 P). It is also comparable to the position of the
Covenanted Scottish General Assembly as seen in this sample quote, "we are
also very sensible of the great and imminent dangers into which this common
cause of religion is now brought by the growing and spreading of most dangerous
errors in England to the obstructing and hindering of the begun Reformation, as
namely (beside many others) Socinianism, Arminianism, Anabaptism, Antinomianism,
Brownism, Erastianism, Independency, and that
which is called (by abuse of the word) Liberty of Conscience, being indeed
Liberty of Error, Scandal, Schism, Heresy, dishonouring God, opposing the
Truth, hindering Reformation; and seducing others" (Acts of
the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1638-1649 Inclusive, p. 333). In short,
this work of Edwards' is "a treatise against the Magistrates toleration
and permission of a promiscuous use and profession of all religions, sects and
heresies, and a partial limited toleration of some few sects, or of any one
sect, way of worship, church government different from the true religion
established and settled." This book was
published by the authority of the English Parliament of Edwards' day.
224 pages.
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Resource 17.
BAILLIE, ROBERT
A Dissuasive from the Errors
of the Time: Wherein the Tenets of the principal Sects, especially of the
Independents, are drawn together in one Map, for the most part, in the words of
their own Authors, and their main principles are examined by the Touchstone of
the Holy Scriptures (1645)
Chapter titles include: The origin and progress
of the Brownists; The doctrine of the Brownists; The
origin and progress of the Independents, and of their carriage in New England;
The carriage of the Independents in Holland; The carriage of the Independents
at London; An enumeration of the common tenets of the Independents;
It is unjust scrupulosity to require satisfaction of the true grace of every
Church member; Concerning the right of prophesying (i.e. preachin--RB); Whether
the power of ecclesiastical jurisdiction belongs to the people, or to the
Presbytery?; Independency is contrary to God's Word;
The thousand years of Christ, his visible reign upon Earth, is against
Scripture (contra Premillennialism--RB).
274 pages.
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Resource 18.
DURHAM, JAMES
The Unsearchable Riches of
Christ and of Grace and Glory In and Through Him; Diligently Searched Into,
Clearly Unfolded, and Comfortably Holden Forth, in Fourteen Rich Gospel Sermons
Preached on Several Texts, at Communions in Glasgow (1685, 1764 edition)
These communion sermons cover topics such
as: the great danger of unworthy communing; the great sin of not discerning the
Lord's body; gospel preparations are the strongest invitations; after God
speaks peace, turn not again to folly; right covenanting with God, a business
of the greatest concern; heart-melting is a good frame for covenanting with
God; we should stir up ourselves to covenant with God; believers'
sweetest communion is with Christ in heaven; etc. The tenor of this book could be summed
up in this statement excerpted from the Epistle Dedicatory and Prefatory, "Beware of all sinful dalliances with idols, whereby the soul
is estranged from communion with God; for there is no agreement betwixt the
temple of God and idols, from love to fellowship
with him, and from zeal to his glory, bid them all, with indignation, be gone,
saying to them, What have we any more to do with idols? and as to a menstruous cloth, Get you hence" (bold emphasis added.
pp. xi-xii). Durham was a well-known Presbyterian Covenanter (who openly
sided with the Protesters as he neared his death) -- and Covenanter
communion sermons often produced some of the richest gospel fare one is likely
to encounter.
Taste of this fine feast and you will see for yourself what we mean. Over 300
pages.
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Resource 19. FOXE,
JOHN
Acts & Monuments or
Foxe's Book of Martyrs (c. 1554; 8 volumes, 1843-49 edition)
"No book ever inflicted a wound so deep
and incurable on the Romish system of superstition & bloody persecution... (it) was placed in...
all churches and chapels throughout the kingdom, by order of Queen
Elizabeth." (Smith, Select Memoirs [$US19.99 P; $US29.00 HP], p. 245). Contains much information not found in any of the liberally
edited & severely shortened editions of this classic work which are in
print today. Covering martyrs from the early church through to Foxe's
day, it was one of the most influential books of the sixteenth century! It overflows with faith
building testimony of the power of God to overcome the most cruel &
barbarous acts of human depravity & demonic cruelty. 6890 pages. A very rare set, now back in print after 150 years!
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Resource 20. OWEN,
JOHN
A Discourse Concerning
Liturgies & Their Imposition
First published anonymously in 1662, this
edition is from the mid 19th-century printing. In it
Owen argues against the liturgy, the imposition of which caused (to the
astonishment of the Prelatical hierarchy) nearly two thousand Puritan ministers
of the Church of England to resign from their pulpits rather than sacrifice a
clear conscience concerning the commanded worship of God. These men sacrificed
their livelihood, families, and even their own lives rather than offend God by
propagating false worship. In conjunction with this, Girardeau, in
his Instrumental Music in the Public Worship of the Church (pp. 24-25 [$8.99 bound
photocopy; $19.00 Hardcover photocopy) notes, "The words of the great
theologian, John Owen -- and the British Isles have produced no greater -- are
solemn and deserve to be seriously pondered: 'The principle that the church
hath power to institute any thing or ceremony belonging to the worship of God,
either as to matter or manner, beyond the observance of such circumstances as
necessarily attend such ordinances as Christ Himself hath instituted, lies at
the bottom of all the horrible superstition and idolatry, of all the confusion,
blood, persecution, and wars, that have for so long a season spread themselves
over the face of the Christian world.'" Bannerman, in his Church of Christ, summarizes this book
as "giving the Scriptural argument against
the imposition of liturgies as well as of other humanely devised elements in
Divine worship, with great clearness and force"(p. 435).
Furthermore, the Westminster Theological Journal (55, 1993, p. 322, 3n)
notes, "Owen discusses the true nature of NT
worship, especially focusing on the challenge made to it by the Church of
England. His discourse regarding the imposition of liturgies is one of the most
thorough and forceful arguments for the regulative principle of worship as the
only principle which safely guards the Christian conscience from the abuse of
church power." 55 pages.
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For more on this topic see "Reformation History," FREE
at: http://www.swrb.com/newslett/FREEBOOK/RefHist.htm
THE "SOUR OLD
PURITANS" AND THEIR EATING FOR ENJOYMENT
by William Perkins
We may use
these gifts of God with Christian liberty: and how is that? not sparingly
alone, and for mere necessity, to the satisfying of our hunger, and quenching
of our thirst; but also freely and liberally, for Christian delight and
pleasure. For this is that liberty, which God has granted to all believers.
Thus we read, that Joseph and his brethren with him, did eat and drink together
"of the best," that is, liberally (Gen. 43:34). And to this purpose
David says, that "God giveth wine, to make glad the heart of man, and oil
to make the face to shine, as well as bread to strengthen the body" (Ps.
104:15). And the Lord threatens to bring a punishment upon his people, Hag.
1:6, in that he would give them his creatures [gifts of creation] indeed, but
such a portion of them as should only supply their present necessities, and no
more. "Ye shall eat," says he, "but ye shall not have enough: ye
shall drink, but ye shall not be filled." Again, we read that Levi the
Publican made our Savior Christ "a great feast" in his own house (Luke
5:29). At the marriage in Cana a town of Galilee, where Christ was present, the
guests are said, according to the manner of those countries, to have
"drunk liberally" (John 2:10). And at another place, in supper time,
Mary is said to have taken a box of precious and costly ointment, and to have
anointed his feet therewith, so as the "whole house was filled with the
savor of the ointment" (John 12:3). Judas indeed thought that expense
which she had made [to be] superfluous: but Christ approves of her act, and
commends her for it.
I add further,
that by reason of this liberty purchased unto us by Christ, we may [make] use
[of] these and the like creatures of God with joy and rejoicing. This the
profit that redounds [overflows] unto man in the use of them, that "he eat
and drink, and delight his soul with the profit of his labors" (Eccl.
2:24). The practice hereof we have in Acts 2:46, where they of that Church that
believed are said "to eat their meat together with gladness, and
singleness of heart." And yet this rejoicing in the creatures must be
limited with this clause, that it be in the Lord: that is to say, a hurtless
and harmless joy, tending to the glory of God and the good of our neighbor.
This condemns the common practice of the world, who solace and delight
themselves in the use of God's creatures; but so [in such a manner] as with
their joy is joined the ordinary traducing [maligning] of the Magistrate,
Minister, and those that fear God, and will not run with them to the same
excess of riot (1 Pet. 4:4).
-- Taken from The
Whole Treatise of the Cases of Conscience, by William Perkins (1632), pp. 321-322
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