The Great Cloud of Witnesses · Gallery

The Puritans & Pietists

The examined heart: the century that asked whether the opened Bible had opened you. 6 witnesses hang on this wall, era by era down the line.

The Puritans & Pietists1600–1730

Gave refugees his estate and got back a hundred-year prayer meeting and the first Protestant missionary wave.

Wrote Pilgrim's Progress in the Bedford jail rather than promise the court he would stop preaching.

The Puritans' deepest thinker, who warned that you must be killing sin or it will be killing you.

Rose at four every morning to write a whole-Bible commentary that a farming family could read at the table.

Preached in one London pulpit for fifty-one years and wrote a commentary on every single verse in the Bible.

Wrote Knowing God, and kept the Puritans in print for a century that had forgotten them.

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