The Puritan Library: A Look at the Books That Shaped Them

ABSTRACT: The Puritans were such able theologians and physicians of souls because they were so committed to carefully studying Scripture in deep conversation with the best of church history. Mining the wealth of their forebears meant reading carefully, and always in the light of God’s word, early church fathers, medieval theologians, the Reformers, and their contemporaries. Those who want to follow in the footsteps of Puritan pastor-theologians can sit down in libraries like theirs, reading the