This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Puritan sermons were not simply agents for theological debate, conscience, and self-control. Like any works of art, they encourage their ...

Puritan sermons often aimed at stirring the holy affections of congregants, and Van Engen writes, The imaginative work of sympathy, furthermore, constituted its own distinct practice. Puritan ...

A Puritan funeral sermon sets death in its true perspective. Most people think about their own death as a fearful prospect, but the title of a famous Puritan funeral sermon offers a pleasing ...

J. I. Packer discusses the English Puritans, their quest for holiness, and why they are still worth remembering. Puritanism in England was a holiness movement—seeking holiness in church, family, and ...

The solemn hour approaches. It will soon be just three hundred years since the Pilgrims let go their anchor off the coast of Cape Cod. A flood of oratory will surely descend upon us. The New England ...

England in the 17th century was what’s known as a “confessional state” – everyone was supposed to practice religion in the way the government decided. But puritans didn’t much like the way religion ...

Many things influence human behavior, and I don’t claim to understand all of them. I have had the most experience with the early New England Puritans' influence on how Americans act and react to the ...