"The Digital Puritan" is a quarterly reader of helpful Puritan works. Each article is carefully edited and formatted to maximize readability. The autumn 2012 edition of "The Digital Puritan" contains the following articles:
1. The Preciousness of Time - Jonathan Edwards. This sermon, from 1734, reveals how being mindful of the brevity of this life makes us live life to the fullest (i.e. with eternity in view).
2. A Description of True Blessedness - Christopher Love. A sermon that shows what is meant by faithful hearing and keeping of the Word of God, and why it is an essential element of saving faith.
3. Of Wisdom and Innocency - Thomas Watson. Watson explores what is meant by Christ's teaching, that we are to be "wise as serpents, and harmless as doves" (Matthew 10:16).
4. The Removal of the Gospel - Stephen Charnock. A discourse on Revelation 2:5. God's most severe and final judgment upon a land is the removal of the gospel from it.
5. The Crown and Glory of a Christian - Christopher Ness. A refreshingly straightforward primer on the essential elements of conversion and the pursuit of a God-honouring life.
Includes an end-note section which has over 500 Scripture references (in the ESV) and helpful notes hyperlinked to the articles. No internet connection is required.
Puritan divine, Stephen Charnock was an English Puritan Presbyterian clergyman born at the St Katherine Cree parish of London. Charnock studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, during which he was converted to the Christian faith, beginning his spiritual journey as a Puritan divine.
He moved to Ireland in 1656 where he became a chaplain to Henry Cromwell, governor of Ireland. In Dublin, he began a regular ministry of preaching to other believers. Those who came to hear him were from different classes of society and differing denominations, and he became widely known for the skill by which he discharged his duties.
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