Puritanism: Reformed Doctrine, Reformed Piety & Reformed Worship

by Still Waters Revival Books



PURITANISM: REFORMED DOCTRINE, REFORMED PIETY & REFORMED WORSHIP

Peter Lewis rightly says that Puritanism grew out of three needs:

(1) the need for biblical preaching and the teaching of sound Reformed doctrine;

(2) the need for biblical, personal piety that stresses the work of the Holy Spirit in the faith and life of the believer; and

(3) the need to restore biblical simplicity in liturgy, vestments, and church government, so that a well-ordered church life would promote the worship of the Triune God as prescribed in His Word (The Genius of Puritanism, pp. 11ff.).

Doctrinally, Puritanism was a kind of vigorous Calvinism; experientially, it was warm and contagious; evangelistically, it was aggressive, yet tender; ecclesiastically, it was theocentric and worshipful; politically, it aimed to be scriptural, balanced, and bound by conscience before God in the relations of king, Parliament, and subjects.

This quotation is from the book, "Meet The Puritans: With a Guide to Modern Reprints" [pages xviii-xix], by Dr. Joel Beeke and Randal Pederson.

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