Why You Should Read the Puritans: Part Ten
Posted: June 20, 2007 Filed under: Joel Beeke, Puritans Leave a comment8. Puritan writings teach the importance and primacy of preaching.
To the Puritans, preaching was the high point of public worship. Preaching must be expository and didactic, they said; evangelistic and convicting, experiential and applicatory, powerful and “plain” in its presentation, ever respecting the sovereignty of the Holy Spirit.
If you would help evangelicals recover the pulpit and a high view of the ministry in our day, read Puritan sermons. Read William Perkins’s The Art of Prophesying and Richard Baxter’s The Reformed Pastor.
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