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If you have read much of the Puritans on the subject of sin and temptation you will be aware that often they speak of avoiding occasions of ...

"MY Dear Friend, At present I am busy about my Bible; being suffered to live to read it over once again.. Two things have occurred to m...

Heaven on earth was what was promised to Adam in the beginning but which he forfeited. Often the phrase heaven on earth is associated with e...

John Forbes of Alford (c.1565–1634) was the cousin of Andrew Meville. Forbes is not to be confused with his nephew, the Aberdeen Doctor John...

Every night before bed mark God's mercies to you as love tokens from your husband. What we should esteem of is the continual presence of...

Duty must be cordial and hearty for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness. The matter must swim not in the head or understanding, ...

Pilgrims need songs for their journey. The pilgrims that went up to Zion at the three appointed feasts in the year had an ample store of div...

...it is not owing to God, nor to any of his revelations, that true saints ever doubt of their state; his revelations are plain and clear, a...

We all need, and at the seasons the Lord sees best, we all receive chastisement. I hope you likewise have reason to praise Him, for supporti...

Keeping a spiritual diary is a practice that has often appeared wherever puritan piety is found. John Coffey and Paul C. H. Lim in the The C...

Love and hatred are not faults in themselves, it is what you hate or love that matters, so aince let the object of these affections be right...

The Dutch theologian Wilhelmus à Brakel (1635-1711) is best known for his four-volume work, The Christian's Reasonable Service (Reformat...

This poem by John Flavel written in 1691 was recorded by William Sinclair of Wick in his diary which is online here . William Sinclair was (...

Following on from a previous post on The Sum of Saving Knowledge. Dickson's Friendship with Durham Robert Wodrow records that David Dic...

Luther said that that it is prayer, meditation, and temptation that contribute to make a theologian or minister. Trials, testings and tempta...

The Practical Implications of Calvinism A.N. Martin (Banner of Truth) Using the definition of Calvinism as 'that sight of the majesty of...

The following quotation from the Westminster divine William Twisse expresses very well the Puritan attitude towards the due use of necessary...

John Knox in a treatise on Psalm 6 outlines some of the essentials that the soul desires from divine forgiveness. For the text of Psalm 6 se...

Another blog has published the whole of John Kennedy, Dingwall's Leper Isle. This is rather like John Bunyan's The Holy War or The P...

"It is fit,that professors of all sorts should be reminded of these things; for we may see not a few of them under visible decays, with...