I love the Puritans too! 😊 1. In addition to the book mentioned in the video, Meet the Puritans by Joel Beeke (Mr. Puritan himself!), another fantastic introduction to all things Puritan, and especially John Owen and Richard Baxter, is J.I. Packer's A Quest for Godliness. It's a collection of essays by Packer on the Puritans, beautifully written as Packer always is, and edifying, and of course intelligent and informative. 2. I also grew up being taught about how bad the Puritans were. For a corrective, I found Leland Ryken's Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were very helpful. 3. My favorite Puritan book, and indeed one of my very favorite books of all time, is The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. It is deservedly a classic. The Christian life mapped out in allegorical vignettes, as Christian journeys toward the celestial city. (C.S. Lewis's A Pilgrim's Regress makes good use of Bunyan's famous tale to tell about Lewis's own return to Christianity.) 4. I'd also highly recommend The Bruised Reed by Richard Sibbes. It's salve to a sin-sick soul. 5. The Letters of Samuel Rutherford. Rutherford’s life was a life of constant turmoil in a tumultuous period of history. He suffered the death of his wife at an early age as well as the loss of all save one of his children. He was perpetually hounded and persecuted by established state churchmen; near the end of his life, he would have been tried for treason and executed had he not died. Yet through it all Rutherford was a devoted pastor who dearly loved his flock. Ironically, the bulk of his letters (approximately 220 out of 365 letters) were written while Rutherford was in exile away from his flock. His flock lived in and around the little town of Anwoth in southwest Scotland near the English border. However, Rutherford was forced to move away from Anwoth by the ecclesiastical powers-that-be of the day. They forced Rutherford to live far north in Aberdeen where they thought he’d be silenced (and where David Gibson, who recently published my now favorite exposition of the Psalm 23, The Lord of Psalm 23, and Sinclair Ferguson and others serve today). Yet thanks to God’s providence, thanks to God who can bring good out of evil, Rutherford’s exile did the opposite of silencing him inasmuch as his exile led him to pen his famous letters. And his letters still benefit us today so that we can say: “though he died, he still speaks” (Heb 11:4). 6. There are many good contemporary takes on the Puritans. Dane Ortlund is probably most famous. For example, his Gentle and Lowly borrows heavily from (among others) Thomas Goodwin's The Heart of Christ. Likewise Kris Lundgaard borrows heavily from John Owen in his trilogy of books - The Enemy Within, The Glorious Christ, and The Devoted Mind. Again, I love the Puritans! Happy reading! 😊
Discovered the Puritans through reading Lloyd-Jones and Timothy Keller. Fave author is Richard Sibbes, “The Bruised Reed” is an awesome book!! Looking forward to enjoying this series!!
i am 47. The puritans were presented in a positive light when i was in school. As my sisters kids were in school they were basically uptight jerks, and when my son was in elementary school, they were not even mentioned.
LOVE the Puritans! very excited for this series! I have the works of John Flavel Vol. 1 of his works has the most beutiful things about Christ I have ever read. Brought me to tears many times. If I may make a recommendation I think Thomas Watson is very easy to read. Brooks is good and I started with him, but I found Watson is a little easier.
@@coltonyarbro Who are your 3 favorite Puritans? I would have to say my three are John Flavel, Thomas Watson, and Jeremiah Burroughs, not in any order but based on their impact on my life.
Yessir. Everything that modern culture teaches about the Puritans is completely and utterly wrong. Most of their writings are absolutely loving and profitable, and not anything that would be described as “fire and brimstone.” One of my favorite Puritan Paperbacks is the Letters of Samuel Rutherford. He addresses many topics that we can relate to today… suffering, loss, persecution. Definitely not hard to read either.
He is often called one. He came later and was a minister in America. But I would definitely say he is a Puritan of sorts. Just not one from the earlier era of English Puritans.
@@coltonyarbro1. I think if we accept Jonathan Edwards as a Puritan, then there might be a case to be made to accept others as Puritans too. Like George Whitefield, John Newton, Charles Spurgeon, Martyn Lloyd Jones, JI Packer, Joel Beeke, etc. 2. In any case, I love Edwards! Before their falling out, Martyn Lloyd Jones and JI Packer used to hold an annual (I think?). Puritan conference. I think many or most of the papers are collected in the multi volume Puritan Papers set published by Puritan and Reformed (P&R). In one of the papers, Lloyd Jones mentions that to him the Puritans are giants like the Alps, while Edwards is Mt. Everest. And I can't help but agree! 3. My favorite work of Edwards is The Sermons of Jonathan Edwads. Most people only know Edwards as the supposed “fire and brimstone” preacher responsible for “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. However, at best, that’s a lopsided image of Edwards. Edwards was a leading figure in the Great Awakening. A missionary to the Native Americans. President of what would become Princeton University. A Renaissance man in the same generation as one of our Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin. (By the way, see George Marsden’s shorter biography on Edwards for more about this tantalizing connection.) Edwards was a scholar conversant with the cutting edge philosophy and science of his day (e.g. Locke, Newton). Quite arguably Edwards was America’s greatest theologian, even above the great B. B. Warfield (pace Edwards’ flirtations with occasionalism and idealism). Certainly few people in history have had as sharp a mind as Edwards. In my view, Edwards deserves to be ranked either on par with or only slightly below theologians like Augustine, Anselm, and Aquinas. His many works testify to all this. A sweet introduction to this fuller Edwards would be in sermons like “Heaven Is a World of Love”, “The Pleasantness of Religion”, “A Farewell Sermon”, “The Excellency of Christ”, and (my favorite) “A Divine and Supernatural Light”. Most of Edwards’ works can be read for free at the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University.
I love the Puritans too! 😊
1. In addition to the book mentioned in the video, Meet the Puritans by Joel Beeke (Mr. Puritan himself!), another fantastic introduction to all things Puritan, and especially John Owen and Richard Baxter, is J.I. Packer's A Quest for Godliness. It's a collection of essays by Packer on the Puritans, beautifully written as Packer always is, and edifying, and of course intelligent and informative.
2. I also grew up being taught about how bad the Puritans were. For a corrective, I found Leland Ryken's Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were very helpful.
3. My favorite Puritan book, and indeed one of my very favorite books of all time, is The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. It is deservedly a classic. The Christian life mapped out in allegorical vignettes, as Christian journeys toward the celestial city. (C.S. Lewis's A Pilgrim's Regress makes good use of Bunyan's famous tale to tell about Lewis's own return to Christianity.)
4. I'd also highly recommend The Bruised Reed by Richard Sibbes. It's salve to a sin-sick soul.
5. The Letters of Samuel Rutherford. Rutherford’s life was a life of constant turmoil in a tumultuous period of history. He suffered the death of his wife at an early age as well as the loss of all save one of his children. He was perpetually hounded and persecuted by established state churchmen; near the end of his life, he would have been tried for treason and executed had he not died. Yet through it all Rutherford was a devoted pastor who dearly loved his flock. Ironically, the bulk of his letters (approximately 220 out of 365 letters) were written while Rutherford was in exile away from his flock. His flock lived in and around the little town of Anwoth in southwest Scotland near the English border. However, Rutherford was forced to move away from Anwoth by the ecclesiastical powers-that-be of the day. They forced Rutherford to live far north in Aberdeen where they thought he’d be silenced (and where David Gibson, who recently published my now favorite exposition of the Psalm 23, The Lord of Psalm 23, and Sinclair Ferguson and others serve today). Yet thanks to God’s providence, thanks to God who can bring good out of evil, Rutherford’s exile did the opposite of silencing him inasmuch as his exile led him to pen his famous letters. And his letters still benefit us today so that we can say: “though he died, he still speaks” (Heb 11:4).
6. There are many good contemporary takes on the Puritans. Dane Ortlund is probably most famous. For example, his Gentle and Lowly borrows heavily from (among others) Thomas Goodwin's The Heart of Christ. Likewise Kris Lundgaard borrows heavily from John Owen in his trilogy of books - The Enemy Within, The Glorious Christ, and The Devoted Mind.
Again, I love the Puritans! Happy reading! 😊
Love the Puritans. Thank you for making this series.
Love the puritans. Great recommendations
Yes. This is going to be a good series!!🙏🏻
Discovered the Puritans through reading Lloyd-Jones and Timothy Keller. Fave author is Richard Sibbes, “The Bruised Reed” is an awesome book!! Looking forward to enjoying this series!!
The Bruised Reed is one of my favorites also.
i am 47. The puritans were presented in a positive light when i was in school. As my sisters kids were in school they were basically uptight jerks, and when my son was in elementary school, they were not even mentioned.
@@living_the_mac_and_cheese_life interesting…gradually falling out of favor with the culture.
@@coltonyarbro i appreciate you making this video. you got my interest peaked and i am looking on amazon and ebay for some of the books.
LOVE the Puritans! very excited for this series! I have the works of John Flavel Vol. 1 of his works has the most beutiful things about Christ I have ever read. Brought me to tears many times. If I may make a recommendation I think Thomas Watson is very easy to read. Brooks is good and I started with him, but I found Watson is a little easier.
Watson is great!
@@coltonyarbro Who are your 3 favorite Puritans? I would have to say my three are John Flavel, Thomas Watson, and Jeremiah Burroughs, not in any order but based on their impact on my life.
Yessir. Everything that modern culture teaches about the Puritans is completely and utterly wrong. Most of their writings are absolutely loving and profitable, and not anything that would be described as “fire and brimstone.”
One of my favorite Puritan Paperbacks is the Letters of Samuel Rutherford. He addresses many topics that we can relate to today… suffering, loss, persecution. Definitely not hard to read either.
I had to resub. not sure what is going on, but I have noticed that I have been unsubbed to some Christian and conservative youtubers. 🤔
That’s really strange 😟
@@coltonyarbro very strange because they will push other “Christian” youtubers who are all about gossip.
Was Pastor Johnathan Edwards a puritan?
He is often called one. He came later and was a minister in America. But I would definitely say he is a Puritan of sorts. Just not one from the earlier era of English Puritans.
@@coltonyarbroThanks Pastor.
@@coltonyarbro1. I think if we accept Jonathan Edwards as a Puritan, then there might be a case to be made to accept others as Puritans too. Like George Whitefield, John Newton, Charles Spurgeon, Martyn Lloyd Jones, JI Packer, Joel Beeke, etc.
2. In any case, I love Edwards! Before their falling out, Martyn Lloyd Jones and JI Packer used to hold an annual (I think?). Puritan conference. I think many or most of the papers are collected in the multi volume Puritan Papers set published by Puritan and Reformed (P&R). In one of the papers, Lloyd Jones mentions that to him the Puritans are giants like the Alps, while Edwards is Mt. Everest. And I can't help but agree!
3. My favorite work of Edwards is The Sermons of Jonathan Edwads. Most people only know Edwards as the supposed “fire and brimstone” preacher responsible for “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. However, at best, that’s a lopsided image of Edwards. Edwards was a leading figure in the Great Awakening. A missionary to the Native Americans. President of what would become Princeton University. A Renaissance man in the same generation as one of our Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin. (By the way, see George Marsden’s shorter biography on Edwards for more about this tantalizing connection.) Edwards was a scholar conversant with the cutting edge philosophy and science of his day (e.g. Locke, Newton). Quite arguably Edwards was America’s greatest theologian, even above the great B. B. Warfield (pace Edwards’ flirtations with occasionalism and idealism). Certainly few people in history have had as sharp a mind as Edwards. In my view, Edwards deserves to be ranked either on par with or only slightly below theologians like Augustine, Anselm, and Aquinas. His many works testify to all this. A sweet introduction to this fuller Edwards would be in sermons like “Heaven Is a World of Love”, “The Pleasantness of Religion”, “A Farewell Sermon”, “The Excellency of Christ”, and (my favorite) “A Divine and Supernatural Light”. Most of Edwards’ works can be read for free at the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University.