By Paul Helm –   ‘A sinner pressed in conscience by the burden of uncleanness and guilt finds relief, not by reminding himself that his faith is evangelical righteousness by a new law, but by looking to the cross of Christ’. – J. I. Packer on Baxter In yesterday’s post I argued that there are [...]

If you have not visited monergism.com, you will want to spend some time on this excellent website which provides numerous resources on Reformed theology. Today we would simply like to highlight a series of MP3s they have made available by Dr. Derek W. H. Thomas who is the John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and [...]

By Michael A.G. Haykin – Back in the fall of 2008, while speaking at Hespeler Baptist Church on the Puritans, a friend gave me a page she had found in the catalogue of a British firm that shipped various British foods overseas. This particular page advertised Christmas pudding. Part of the ad ran thus: “Christmas [...]

By Paul Helm – John Owen’s short work A Brief Declaration of the Doctrine of the Trinity and also of the Person and Satisfaction of Christ, were published in 1668-9, (in Works, II) at a time when Dr. Owen and his wife Mary were resident in the home in Stoke Newington of the former Cromwellian [...]

By Michael A.G. Haykin Old stereotypes die hard. Often it’s far easier to hang on to misguided caricature than do the tough digging for the truth. The words “Puritan” and “puritanical” offer a good case in point. Our Canadian Oxford Dictionary, for example, after giving these terms a standard historical explanation, notes of the adjective [...]

by Fred Zaspel One of great ironies of Christian history occurred in the latter part of seventeenth-century England, in the little town of Bedford. Despite more than a century of attempts at reforming both church and state, the struggle for religious freedom had been long and hard in coming. A poor tinker (mender of pots [...]