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In this book, Joel Beeke investigates how the Puritans proclaimed what God’s Word counsels regarding the salvation of sinners. He describes the preaching of the Puritans (thoroughly biblical, unashamedly doctrinal, experimentally practical, holistically evangelistic, and studiously symmetrical), the primary methods of evangelism (plain preaching and catechetical evangelism), and the inward...

In discussing the message of Puritan evangelism, we will focus on five distinctive characteristics of Puritan preaching and consider how those characteristics differ from what is used in evangelistic preaching today. First, then, Puritan preaching was thoroughly biblical. The Puritan preacher found his message in God’s Word. “The faithfull Minister, like unto Christ, [is] one that preacheth nothing but the word of God,” said Puritan Edward Dering.1 John Owen agreed:
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