Part II:Puritan Pastors in Profile
PART 2:
PURITAN PASTORS IN PROFILE
PURITAN PASTORS IN PROFILE
Some years ago Christian Focus launched its Christian Heritage series of paperbacks, each containing a devotional gem from a member of the Puritan school of thought. I was asked to write an introduction to each, presenting the writer and his work and indicating something of its value for the present-day Christian reader. I accepted the assignment as a kind of challenge; the selections were not mine, but I applauded them, and found it enriching to compose essays that would celebrate the author, the book, and the benefit it brings in each case, and so tune readers in to what was before them and help them to get the best from it. These introductions are separately reprinted below, for their contents seem to me to admirably amplify and illustrate what the foregoing overview essay on Puritan pastors has sought to cover in general terms. They are, to be sure, somewhat forlorn when detached from the publications they prefaced; their full force, such as it is, will only, I think, be appreciated if one goes on to read what they introduced and then re-reads what I attempt to say about it; but they seem to be pieces that can stand alone if they have to, and that do in fact add substance to what I have said so far. The series is as follows:
The Christian Heritage series remains in print for any who wish to invest in it.