Just out of interest who was the first Puritan author you read?
The first Puritan book I read was John Bunyan's
Grace Abounding, way back when I was 18 and had only found out about Calvinism.
However, the book which really got me reading the Puritans was Thomas Watson's
All Things For Good (originally titled the
Divine Cordial) in the Puritan Paperback series just after I turned 19. After this I went on to read many of the Puritan Paperbacks and Soli Deo Gloria books, before moving on to get actual sets of works.
Between the ages of 19-21 I was a voracious reader of Puritan literature, but when I returned to study at 22 (I left school at 16 and worked for a number of years to fund University) I found I no longer enjoyed them as I did not have the time or the mental energy to read their stuff profitably. So now I am largely reduced to reading them on the Sabbath (except for some of the stuff that is very easy to read) and have to mostly stick to modern writers on weekdays.
