JETS 39:2 (June 1996) p. 273 was its respect for Scripture and its desire to know and carry out all its prescriptions. J. I. Packer has suggested several principles that characterized the general manner in which the Puritans approached Scripture. 5 (1) They were premodern in that they did not come to the Bible with a sense of the difference between the culture of their day and that of Biblical times. This is both an asset and a liability. It is a liability in that Puritans may have tended to ignore