Given his growing popularity as a preacher, Perkins was appointed in 1584 as lecturer at Great St. Andrew’s Church, located across from Christ’s College. From this pulpit, he reached people from all social classes, being “systematic, scholarly, solid, and simple.”16 The effectiveness of his preaching was due in large part to his penchant for casuistry—the art of dealing with “cases of conscience” through self-examination and scriptural application.17 Each of his sermons “seemed all law and all gospel,