Puritans

The Puritans

Few people groups are misunderstood as much today as the Puritans of England and New England in the 17th and 18th centuries. Who were these people we call the Puritans? What did they believe? What can they teach us hundreds of years later? Is the historian correct who quipped, “Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy?”  Well, not hardly. One of the fiercest criticisms the Roman Catholic church spoke against the Puritans was that they allowed too much liberty and permitted too much fun!  Grace and Truth Books makes a point of including a large selection of Puritan books to bring us a deeper appreciation for these oft-neglected, poorly understood, great men and women of the faith who knew what serious Bible study was all about – and serious practice of the Bible. Ignore the hype and you’ll find that these devout believers of centuries past, and their pastors in particular, were “physicians of the soul” with great skill at applying the gospel to all of life.