Again, you miss the point of this thread.Jon. That's just baloney. All these people on here from MacArthur to Begg, who many members read and like, from Spurgeon, Bonar, Ryle, Lloyd-Jones and all the rest, don't seem to understand the purpose and value of what they are reading until Jon comes along and straightens it all out. They were unable to discover the true design behind those guys.
It is not looking at what can be gained from Puritan writings but Puritanism (not neo-Puritanism).
Spurgeon was not a Puritan. MacArthur is not a Puritan. Lloyd-Jones and Begg....not Puritans.
The Puritans sought to establish a comprehensive church that would have purified the nation of "heresies". There are no Puritans after 1740.
Puritans viewed themselves as the recipients of God's prophecies to Israel. They inherited New Jerusalem and were charged with creating the "new Millennium' in England (and the English colonies) by purifying the Church of England. They viewed America as "new Zion's. (Mather....a Puritan theologian).
What you are doing is exactly the reason I started a thread to look at history. You are rewriting history.