Prepared by Grace, for Grace
The Puritans on God’s Ordinary Way of Leading Sinners to Christ
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Prepared by Grace, for Grace
The Puritans on God’s Ordinary Way of Leading Sinners to Christ
About this book
Few teachings of the Puritans have provoked such strong reactions and conflicting interpretations as their views on preparing for saving faith. Many twentieth-century scholars dismissed preparation as a prime example of regression from the Reformed doctrine of grace for a man-centered legalism.
In Prepared by Grace, for Grace , Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley make careful analysis of the Puritan understanding of preparatory grace, demonstrate its fundamental continuity with the Reformed tradition, and identify matters where even the Puritans disagreed among themselves. Clearing away the many misconceptions and associated accusations of preparationism, this study is sure to be the standard work on how the Puritans understood the ordinary way God leads sinners to Christ.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Question of Preparationism
1. Preparation and Modern Scholarship
2. Precedents to Puritan Preparation: Augustine to Calvin
3. Preparation and Early English Puritans: Perkins, Sibbes, and Preston
4. Preparation for Conversion: William Ames
5. Preparation in Early New England (I): Thomas Hooker
6. Preparation in Early New England (II): Shepard and Pemble
7. Preparation and the Antinomian Controversy: John Cotton
8. Preparation at the Pinnacle of Puritanism: Westminster, Burroughs, and Guthrie
9. Preparation under a Scholastic Lens: Norton
10. Preparation and Later Puritan Critiques: Goodwin and Firmin
11. Later Puritan Preparation: Flavel and Bunyan
12. Jonathan Edwards and Seeking God
13. Continental Reformed Perspectives: Zwingli to Witsius
14. The Grace of Preparation for Faith
Appendix: William Ames's Theological Disputation on Preparation
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- I Would I Were Converted
- 1 Preparation and Modern Scholarship
- 2 Precedents to Puritan Preparation
- 3 The Early English Puritans
- 4 William Ames and Preparation for Conversion
- 5 Preparation in Early New England (1)
- 6 Preparation in Early New England (2)
- 7 Preparation and the Antinomian Controversy
- 8 Preparation at the Apex of Puritanism
- 9 Preparation under a Scholastic Lens
- 10 Preparation and Subsequent Puritan Critiques
- 11 Later Puritan Preparation
- 12 Jonathan Edwards and Seeking God
- 13 Continental Reformed Perspectives
- 14 The Grace of Preparation for Faith
- Awake, Awake, O Sinner