longed for intelligent and edifying preaching. And they wanted it in every parish church. If the reform of preaching was a major concern of the Puritans, it was because the English church had failed to produce in sufficient quantity the kind of preaching that would make the Reformation more than a mere institutional reform. To get a deeper appreciation of Puritan preaching, we must look more thoroughly at the theological aspects of Puritanism. First, Puritanism had a high sense of the sovereignty