Puritan Books Evaluated: Part 10 – The Works of Hugh Binning

By Paul Henebury on

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The Works of Hugh Binning, Ligonier, PA, Soli Deo Gloria, 1992, ivi + 659 pages, hardback.

Hugh Binning (d. 1653) was a Scottish minister who wrote several exemplary books on the Christian walk like The Sinner’s Sanctuary and Heart-Humiliation, as well as a series of sermons on Theology called The Common Principles of the Christian Religion. His Works have been gathered into one large volume and published through Soli Deo Gloria. Because he was a Scot, Binning was not technically a Puritan, but he was of their time and temper.

Puritan Books Evaluated: Part 8 – John Owen’s ‘Communion with God’

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This review was written some years ago, but it fits well into the present project, so I decided to include it here. I hope I will be forgiven for posting a preexisting book review in the series, but the book is one of the most famous Puritan works and really had to be included. The review is of the recent edition of the work, John Owen, Communion with the Triune God, edited by Kelly M. Kapic and Justin Taylor, Wheaton, Ill: Crossway, 2007.

Meet the Puritans 2.0

By Jonathan Peters on

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Puritans sought to purge Roman Catholic vestiges from the Church of England to make it more Protestant. They agreed with much of the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, but objected to the Church’s use of crucifixes, graven images, episcopal polity, ornate clerical vestments, the liturgical calendar, the sign of the cross in baptism, the elevation of the host, and kneeling to receive the Lord’s Supper. Their attempts to purify the Anglican Church ultimately failed, leading to the growth of dissenting denominations in Old and New England.

Puritan Books Evaluated: Part 3 – The Doubting Believer by Obadiah Sedgwick

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There are a number of good books dealing with doubt that I would recommend. More modern authors like Os Guinness, Gary Habermas and J. P. Moreland have made solid contributions to this subject. Of the Puritan authors, we find quite a few addressing assurance, but not so many dealing with doubt.