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I'm really not a huge Perry Miller fan (I think it's clear he was an unbeliever), nor a George Marsden fan, so this is not a debate I have any particular interest in. But here are a couple of endorsements to help balance out the picture. The Puritans: A Sourcebook of their Writings by Perry Miller « The Shepherd’s Scrapbook
J.I. Packer, A quest for godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, p. 22: Quote: |
Taught by Perry Miller, William Haller, Marshall Knappen, Percy Scholes, Edmund Morgan, and a host of more recent researchers, informed folk now acknowledge that the typical Puritans were not wild men, fierce and freaky, religious fanatics and social extremists, but sober, conscientious, and cultured citizens: persons of principle, devoted, determined, and disciplined, excelling in the domestic virtues, and with no obvious shortcomings save a tendency to run to works when saying anything important, whether to God or to man. At last the record has been put straight.
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"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole
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