the general interpretive presuppositions of “Reformed orthodoxy” into the eighteenth century. Among the Reformed who were later called Puritans, he was a major biblical interpreter whose influence was substantial as well as international.113 Throughout his commentaries and treatises, the methods of scholasticism, common in the post-Reformation period, are evident in Perkins’s use of syllogisms and distinctions.114 Particularly with the Protestant focus on Scripture as the primary rule of faith and