Meet the Puritans
Christ the Center is pleased to welcome Dr. Joel Beeke to discuss Meet the Puritans, which he wrote with Randall J. Pederson. This volume is a wonderful collection of short biographies as well as a guide to modern reprints of many Puritan theologians. Dr. Beeke serves as President and Professor of Systematic Theology, Church History, and Homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary and brings a wealth of knowledge to this episode.
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Interesting material, as usual, from Dr. Beeke. I am one of those persons he refers to about asking his regarding leaving out certain puritans. I was teasing him at the door at our church in Holland, MI. after he preached an ordination sermon for one of my pastors, a graduate of PRTS. I said that I toss his book, Meet the Puritans, to the ground before I read it because he left out John Brown of Wamphray. {Good price on his works here, by the way…
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Anyway, http://www.monergism.com is doing a great job linking all the online puritan sources on one site at
http://www.puritanlibrary.com I enjoyed the discussion about supplementing the puritans with modern authors like Geehardus Vos, though when I was under awakening I would have felt safer sitting at the feet of Owen or Edwards than Vos or Bavinck to draw me out of my fears to Christ.
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That was great. I like his recommendations for reading the Puritans. My first step into the puritans was John Owen. I bought the entire works from Logos.
I recently was inspired to read large amounts of Owen when I began discussions with someone who had a different take on justification and the nature of those that fall away. He had more of a continual justification theology, considering that people are justified as long as they stand in a stage of grace (by faith of course). He claimed that Owen believed something similar based on Owen’s Moritification of Sin. So I dug into Owen’s work on apostacy and found mountains of information to the contrary. Owen firmly believed that those who fall away were never truly saved.
Anyways, I agree that Owen is hard to read; but I was so motivated to find what I was looking for that I read dozens of pages not realizing the difficulty of what I was reading. I highly recommend being similarly motivated when you read Owen.
You sorta just have to push through it and not dwell on little sections that are hard to understand; often there will be other sections that are easier to understand. But I’ve also found that the more you read, the easier it gets because you begin to get familiar with the thought process and the way he lays out his ideas.
I started narrating puritan works on tapes back in 1985. These works are now on http://www.sermonaudio.com
So far I have done parts of a number of Owen’s works. Especially volume 6 and of number 7 “The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded.” and “of the Dominion of Sin and Grace. I am presently the computer tutor for Albert Martin who has commenced a writing ministry. I was surprised to learn that he is working his way through “The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded” for the 7th time. I have looked in the margins of his books and he writes in pencil the date he finished reading through a work. Last year he was reading through John Flavel volume 1 for the third time. I am reading the Fountain of Life, by Flavel now, which I converted for my Amazon Kindle.
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