The voice of gladness hath resounded in our land, the voice of exultation and salvation in the tents of sinners (Ps. 118:15; Sg. 2:12; Jer. 33:11). A good word has been heard, a consoling word, a...
In their articulation of the doctrine of God’s eternal election, early modern Reformed theologians were very careful to express the fact that God did not elect his chosen people in the abstract...
John Boys (1571-1625) was Dean of Canterbury for the final 6 years of his life, during the reign of James I. Boys was particularly known for his exposition or commentary on the various parts o...
Anthony Tuckney (1599-1670) was a divine of the Westminster Assembly, successively master of Emmanuel and St John’s colleges in Cambridge, and Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, befo...
John Pearson (1613-1686) was widely regarded in his own day and long afterwards as the premier theologian within the later seventeenth-century Church of England. Pearson was the Lady Margaret ...
I desire to depart, and to bee with Christ (Phil. 1:23). To be with Christ that came from heaven to be here on earth with us, and descended that we should ascend, to be with him that hath done...
George Abbot (1562-1633) was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1611 to 1633. He had previously been master of University College, Oxford, bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, and bishop of London...
A prayer in time of prosperity by the bishop of Bristol and master of Pembroke College, Oxford, John Hall (1633-1710), to be found at the beginning of his Jacob’s Ladder: Or, The Devout Soul...
It was the principal end of Christ’s institution of the Sacrament of the Supper, that he might assure them of his love, and that he might seal up to them the forgiveness of their sins, the a...
In my spare time over the past while I have been reading several early modern commentaries on the twelfth article of the Apostles’ Creed concerning the life eternal, as well as other sources...