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Puritan Papers, Volume 2: 1960–1962 is unavailable, but you can change that!

J. I. Packer’s chapters on Jonathan Edwards’ theology of revival, the Puritan idea of communion with God, and the Puritan conscience serve as highlights of the second volume of Puritan Papers. Equally important are D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s chapters on true and false knowledge and “Puritan Perplexities: Lessons from 1640–1662.” Biographical chapters feature, in addition to Edwards, Philip...

kept up by visits; and these, the more free and less occasioned by urgent business … they are, the more friendly they are.… We use to check our friends with this upbraiding. You still (always) come when you have some business, but when will you come to see me?… When thou comest into his presence, be telling him still how well thou lovest him; labour to abound in expressions of that kind, than which … there is nothing more taking with the heart of any friend.…”17 This whole section of Goodwin’s exposition
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