The common spirituality that united Puritanism emphasized Christian experience and promoted corporate revival based upon the preaching of the Bible and wrought by the Holy Spirit.
Kelly M. Kapic and Randall C. Gleason from The Devoted Life (pg. 32)
Nearly every association which now clings to the word puritan has to be eliminated when we are thinking of the early Protestants. Whatever they were, they were not sour, gloomy, or severe; nor did their enemies bring any such charge against them...a Protestant was one "dronke of the new must of lewd lightness of minde and vayne gladness of harte." Protestantism was not too grim, but too glad, to be true.
C.S. Lewis
The value we have given to that word [Puritan] is one of the really solid triumphs of the last hundred years.
Uncle Screwtape from C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters
| Title |
Notes |
The Puritan Library  |
www.puritanlibrary.com - Various Puritan Authors |
| 16 Puritan Biographies with Guide to Modern Reprints |
Dr. Joel Beeke and Randall J. Pederson |
| History and Theology of the Puritans (MP3s on iTunes) |
a free 16-part Seminary Course delivered by Dr. J.I. Packer. |
| Reading The Best In Puritan Literature: A Modern Bibliography (.pdf) |
Joel R. Beeke, Reformation & Revival 5:2 (Spring 1996): 117-158. |
| Scots Worthies |
John Howie, Scots Worthies |
| The English Puritans (14 MB .pdf) |
John Brown |
| The Story of the Puritans (.pdf) |
Erroll Hulse, Reformation & Revival 5:2 (Spring 1996): 13-54. |
| Why Read the Puritans Today? (.pdf) |
Don Kistler, Reformation & Revival 5:2 (Spring 1996): 55-66. |
| Reading and Hearing the Word in a Puritan Way (.pdf) |
Joel R. Beeke, Reformation & Revival 5:2 (Spring 1996): 67-76. |
| An Introduction to the Puritans |
Edward Hindson |
| Puritans and Calvinism |
Peter Toon |
| The Puritan Hope: A Study in Revival and the Interpretation of Prophecy |
Iain Murray - Online book on Puritan Eschatology |
| Christian Hedonists or Religious Prudes?: The Puritans on Sex |
Mark Dever (mp3) |
| The Abuse and Misuse of the Puritans |
Al Mohler |
| Reformation for the Glory of God |
Samuel T. Logan. Jr. |
| The Puritan Use of Imagination |
Eifion Evans |
| The Puritans and Revival Christianity |
Iain Murray |
| A Puritan Quiz: Do you know the Puritans Fairly Well? |
A Puritans Mind site |
| Puritan Evangelism |
J.I. Packer |
| Foxe's Book of Martyrs |
History of Martyrs |
| Why You Should Read the Puritans |
Joel Beeke |
| Book Review: Meet the Puritans |
Tim Challies |
| The Biblical Basis for Puritan Meditation |
Amy Gant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| Puritan Classics Series (MP3s and Transcripts) |
Dr. Andrew Davis |
| The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online |
Jonathan Edwards (Yale University) - The most extensive and fully seachable datable of Edwards online; search by text, date, genre, theme, title and Scripture. |
| The Puritan Practice of Meditation |
Joel Beeke |
| Ecclesiola Ecclesia |
D. M. Lloyd-Jones |
| The Puritans and Why People Hate Them So Much (Audio) |
Kevin Swanson |
| Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons (28.6 MB .pdf) |
Samuel Clarke |
| History of the Early Puritans - from the Reformation to the civil war in 1642 (31 MB .pdf) |
J.B. Marsden |
| History of the Later Puritans - from the civil war to the ejection of 1662 (40 MB .pdf) |
J.B. Marsden |
| Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were (Excerpts) |
Leland Ryken |
| Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life (excerpts) |
J. I. Packer |
| The American Puritans (Excerpts) |
Perry Miller |
| The Puritans: A Sourcebook of Their Writings (Excerpts) |
Perry Miller |
| Puritan Spirituality in Context (MP3) |
Carl R. Trueman |
| Physicians of the Soul |
J. I. Packer discusses the English Puritans, their quest for holiness, and why they are still worth remembering. |
| A Church Halfly Reformed |
Peter Adam |
| Biblical Counseling and the Puritans (MP3) |
David Powlison discusses how the Puritans can help us better understand biblical counseling and the Christian life. |
| Sinclair Ferguson on the Puritans (MP3 Lecture) |
Sinclair Ferguson |
| The Puritan Principle of Worship |
William Young |
| The Puritans: Can They Teach Us Anything Today? (Part 1) |
Sinclair B. Ferguson |
| The Puritans: Can They Teach Us Anything Today? (Part 2) |
Sinclair B. Ferguson |
| Puritans Living in Relationship to Affliction, Desertion, and Sin (.pdf) |
Joel R. Beeke, Reformation & Revival 5:2 (Spring 1996): 101-116. |
| Profiles in Puritanism (.pdf) |
William S. Barker, Reformation & Revival 5:3 (Summer 1996): 11-54. |
Meet the Puritans 
Puritan Paperbacks
Devoted Life: Invitation to the Puritan Classics