A Guide to the Puritans

A Guide to the Puritans
By Robert P. Martin
The Banner of Truth Trust. £12.99

I wish I had had this book 25 years ago. It would have saved me a lot of work! It is really a huge catalogue of works (sermons and treatises) in the Puritan and Reformed tradition from John Owen (and before) to John Murray (and after).
These are arranged under a topical index (262 pages) covering scores of subjects (e.g. assurance, election, marriage and family, prayer and providence) and a Scripture index (187 pages) as well as several shorter lists of biographies, ordination sermons, etc..
The author, Robert P. Martin, has accomplished an immense 'labour of love' and he maps for us the riches of a great tradition which may otherwise lie buried in our libraries (he has kept to recently published works). Used wisely, such treasure will enrich any life and ministry.

Peter Lewis

© Evangelicals Now - May 1998
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Main Articles

• Churches and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
  The provision of facilities in church buildings for disabled people
• A still small voice about sex
  An account of one parent's action at a preview of a new school course in sexuality
• Mad for it in Manchester
  An interview with Andy Hawthorne of The World Wide Message Tribe about evangelistic outreach among teenagers in Manchester
• After God's funeral
  Extracts from a talk given by Ravi Zacharias on the problem of moral relativism which follows atheism
• Why DO we go to church?
  The meaning of worship in the Old Testament and New Testament and its implications for our Sunday services
• By faith - the life of George Muller remembered
  An account of the life of George Muller the great Brethren philanthropist
• Eastern orthodoxy
  A brief history of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Orthodox church in Britain and evangelical witness to Greeks in London
• How are we to learn? (Bulldog for May)
  Ten points concerning teaching and preaching in the church with reference to the New Testament

Other articles

• News of the Hour (Marks Gospel)
• Gattaca
• IVP New Testament Commentary Series - Matthew
• Making Progress in Church Life
• Desert Child - or just how amusing can a nightmare be?
• Picking Up The Pieces - can evangelicals adapt to contemporary culture?
• Farm Sermons
• True Happiness - Exposition of Psalm 1
• Promise Keepers - and the rising tide of ecumenism
• The End of Science - Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age
• A Guide to the Puritans
• Pathway Through Grief - Ten accounts of people's experience following bereavement reviewed by Carol Gulliford and Barbara Morland
• At Break of Day
• Our Awesome God