This week the blog post is sponsored by Reformation Heritage Books and written by Dr. Joel R. Beeke.
The writings of England’s William Perkins (1558–1602)—who served God’s Church as one of the last of the sixteenth-century Reformers, as well as one of the fathers of the seventeenth-century Puritanism—has been finally reprinted in modern typeface by Reformation Heritage Books in 10 volumes. Contemporary scholars have called Perkins “the principal architect of Elizabethan Puritanism,” “the Puritan theologian of Tudor times,” “the most important Puritan writer,” “the prince of Puritan theologians,” “the ideal Puritan clergyman of the quietist years,” “the most famous of all Puritan divines,” and the “father of Puritanism.” They have classed Perkins with Calvin and Beza as the third in “the trinity of the orthodox.” Perkins was more widely published in England than Calvin, and the first Protestant theologian to have a major impact in the British Isles, Europe at large, and North America.
Here are some reasons why you should buy and read Perkins today: first, his life will teach you how to find comfort in the sovereignty of God, how to endure hardship in a sanctifying way, how to be ever engaged relentlessly in ministry and
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