The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines

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I highlighted this book before here but it's worth noting again: this is a valuable book for the study of worship in Puritan New England -- public, family and private worship. It's title is derived from The Practice of Piety by Lewis Bayly.

The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England (1982) by Dr. Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe.

 

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Jonathan Mitchell, "A Letter...to His Friend," (1649), quoted in The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England, p. 91:

And truly when I am most near God,
I have no greater request than this
for my self and you, that God would use
any means to make us see things really as they are,
and pound our hearts all to pieces,
and make indeed sin most bitter,
and Christ most sweet, that we might be
both humbled and Comforted to purpose!