For Puritan divines seeking to so persuade those ... lesser known but equally exemplary preachers Richard Sibbes and William Perkins. Those passingly familiar with writers like Bunyan and Milton ...

The Puritans aspired to be worldly saints ... “The general calling,” wrote William Perkins, “is the calling of Christianity, which is common to all that live in the church of God.

According to his diary, Puritan pastor Thomas Heywood attended several dozen such thanksgiving days per year. "Theology is the science of living blessedly forever" (William Perkins). "Theology is ...