Category Meet the Puritans

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Book Review: God Is (Crossway)

Mark Jones, God Is: A Devotional Guide to the Attributes of God (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2017). 240pp. Hardcover. $19.99.   Many theologians have complained recently that Reformed theology has stressed the divine attributes to the neglect of divine triunity. Whether…

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Union and Communion (5)

One of the great benefits of reading the Puritans is that they open our eyes to how wonderfully useful and practical doctrine is. “Theology,” William Ames famously wrote, “is the doctrine of living unto God.” The doctrine of union and…

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Meet a Puritan: Joseph Alleine

Joseph Alleine (1634-1668)   Life Born at Devizes, Wiltshire, Joseph Alleine loved and served the Lord from childhood. A contemporary identified 1645 as the year of Alleine’s “setting forth in the Christian race.” From eleven years of age onward, “the whole…