attempted to make the writings of these Puritan authors more reader-friendly to twenty-first-century readers who are not used to the heavy style of seventeenth-century writers. The Puritan pastors of the seventeenth century have suffered from a lot of erroneous “bad press” in recent years. They have, for the most part, been portrayed as uptight legalists. The truth is that they were probably more grace-centered and more warmly devotional in their relationship with God than any succeeding era of evangelical