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  By applying the beliefs and practices of the Puritans to today we hope to learn ourselves, and teach others how better to glorify and enjoy God. The Puritans may not have been perfect, but they were the finest body of Christians this world has seen since the New Testament period. We are especially interested here to deal with their familial, ecclesiastical, social and political views and practices - there are other sites which adequately deal with their doctrinal and devotional beliefs.

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• The Puritan

  “Overall, the typical Puritan would have impressed us as hardworking, thrifty, serious, moderate, practical in outlook, doctrinaire in religious and political matters, well-informed about the latest political and ecclesiastical developments, argumentative, well-educated, and thoroughly familiar with the contents of the Bible. To attain all this, Puritans had to be self-disciplined.” Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints – The Puritans as They Really Were, p.20

• Puritanism

  “They [the Puritans] yoked their consciences to his Word, disciplining themselves to bring all activities under the scrutiny of Scripture, and to demand a theological, as distinct from a merely pragmatic, justification for everything they did. They applied their understanding of the mind of God to every branch of life, seeing the church, the family, the state, the arts and sciences, the world of commerce and industry, no less than the devotions of the individual, as so many spheres in which God must be served and honoured. They saw life whole, for they saw its Creator as Lord of each department of it, and their purpose was that ‘holiness to the Lord’ might be written over its entirety.” A Quest for Godliness, p.28 “there is no part of our life or conduct, however insignificant which should not be related to the glory of God.” John Calvin (Reformer), Commentary on 1 Cor. 10:31 “I serve a precise God” Richard Rogers (Puritan), Unknown

• The Puritan Principle of Worship

  “For God is not worshiped of us, but when it is his will to accept our worship: and it is not his will to accept our worship, but when it is according to his will.” William Perkins (Puritan), A Golden Chain, or the Description of Theology

• Puritan Education

  “While the aim of Puritan education was religious, its content was the liberal arts.” Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints – The Puritans as They Really Were “Let parents learn here what to aim at in the education of their children…not [to] study only how to provide portions for them…but labour to train them up in true wisdom and discretion.” Thomas Gataker (Puritan), A Good Wife God’s Gift, p.? “I call therefore and complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.” John Milton (Puritan), Complete Prose Works, Vol. 8 “Education is the nurture and development of the whole man for his proper end.” R.L. Dabney, On Secular Education “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” Plutarch, Unknown “There is little hope for children who are educated wickedly. If the dye have been in the wool, it is hard to get it out of the cloth.” Jeremiah Burroughs (Puritan), Unknown “I can see little consistency in a type of Christian activity which preaches the gospel on the street corners and at the ends of the earth but neglects the children of the covenant by abandoning them to a cold and unbelieving secularism.” J. Gresham Machen, Selected Shorter Writings

• The Puritan Family

  “The Puritan ethic of nurture was to train up children in the way they should go, to care for their bodies and souls together, and to educate them for sober, godly, socially useful adult living. The Puritan ethic of home life was based on maintaining order, courtesy, and family worship.” J.I. Packer, Foreword to Worldly Saints – The Puritans As They Really Were “A Christian family…is a church…, a society of Christians combined for the better worshiping and serving of God.” Richard Baxter (Puritan), Unknown “God chargeth the master of the family with all in the family.” John Dod and Robert Cleaver (Puritans), The Ten Commandments “The children born in our families are born unto God.” Deodat Lawson (Puritan), Unknown “Such as families are, such at last the church and commonwealth must be.” James Fitch (A Puritan), An Explanation of the Solemn Advice

• The Puritan Hope

  “Undoubtedly, that people of the Jews shall once more be commanded to arise and shine, and their return shall be the riches of the Gentiles (Rom 11:12), and that shall be a more glorious time than ever the Church of God did yet behold.” Robert Leighton (Anglican Puritan), Unknown

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