What does it take to pray like a Puritan? And why would we want to? For more than two centuries, a bright, passionate faith spread throughout England and across the Atlantic to its colonies—a passion that spurred service and holy living for the day along with a clear view of eternity. The Puritan movement sought to carry the Reformation forward and “purify” the Church of England throughout the 1600s and into the 1700s on both sides of the Atlantic. Its followers sought purity of Scripture-based