The Puritans: Their Origins and Successors

What did the Puritans and their successors teach? Was their teaching biblical? What can we learn from them for our life and witness today? These questions guided Dr. LLoyd-Jones in giving the addresses in this volume. Far from sharing the idea that a knowledge of the past is useless or irrelevant, he believed that the study of history is vital to the well-being of the church today.

In these addresses given at the Puritan Studies and Westminster Conferences between 1959 and 1978, Dr. LLoyd-Jones ranges widely over the history of Reformed Christianity from the Reformation to the nineteenth century, drawing lessons from major figures like Calvin and Knox, Bunyan and Owen, Edwards and Whitefield, and from lesser-known men such as Henry Jacob, John Glas and Robert Sandeman.

Written in an absorbing and stimulating style, these studies continue to speak with great insight and relevance to the church of the twenty-first century.

Contents

Publisher’s Introduction

1959
Revival: An Historical and Theological Survey

1960
Knowledge – False and True

1961
Summing-Up: Knowing and Doing

1962
Puritan Perplexities – Some Lessons From 1640-1662

1963
John Owen on Schism

1964
John Calvin and George Whitefield

1965
‘Ecclesiola in Ecclesia’

1966
Henry Jacob and the First Congregational Church

1967
‘Sandemanianism’

1968
William Williams and Welsh Calvinistic Methodism

1969
Can We Learn From History?

1971
Puritanism and Its Origins

1972
John Knox – The Founder of Puritanism

1973
Howell Harris and Revival

1974
Living the Christian Life – New Developments in the 18th and 19th-Century Teaching

1975
‘The Christian and the State in Revolutionary Times’: The French Revolution and After

1976
Jonathan Edwards and the Crucial Importance of Revival

1977
Preaching

1978
John Bunyan: Church Union

Index