"A loosely organized reform movement originating during the English Reformation of the sixteenth century. The name came from efforts to 'purify' the Church of England by those who felt that the Reformation had not yet been completed. Eventually the Puritans went on to attempt purification of the self and of society as well."
(Mark Noll, "Puritanism", Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, 1984)
I have a copy of his book 'The Irish Puritans: James Ussher and the Reformation of the Church', which is a very quick read but good background stuff on this. So if anyone wants to borrow it...
After reading it I got quite interested in his ecclesiology and his collaberation with Richard Baxter, but haven't had time to do more reading on it recently. I think it's worth looking into though.
"All those nick-names of Puritan, Precisian, Hypocrite, &c. with which lewd tongues are wont to load the saints of God, are so many honourable badges of their worthy deportment in the holy path, and resolute standing on the Lord's side."
Robert Bolton (1572-1631)
Get to know several puritan classics by reading one book
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I have a copy of his book 'The Irish Puritans: James Ussher and the Reformation of the Church', which is a very quick read but good background stuff on this. So if anyone wants to borrow it...
After reading it I got quite interested in his ecclesiology and his collaberation with Richard Baxter, but haven't had time to do more reading on it recently. I think it's worth looking into though.
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