disfigurements as these? The problem exercised the Puritans in their day, and it will be well if it continues to exercise us in ours. But these problems concerned the forms and externals of worship only, and our present interest is rather in the inner reality of worship, as the Puritans understood it. Here, wherever else they differed, they were at one, and the written material they have left us is completely homogeneous, as we shall hope to show by a fairly wide range