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If you study old reformed theology, this is an excellent title to possess…

2 titles in 1 book:

The Bible and the Closet: Or How We May Read the Scriptures With the Most Spiritual Profit by Rev. Thomas Watson

Secret Prayer Successfully Managed by Rev. Samuel Lee

Excerpt from The Bible and the Closet: Or How We May Read the Scriptures With the Most Spiritual Profit

“It is a proper ground for regret, that a people who owe their origin, social habits, religious privileges and national character, to the Puritans and Non-conformists of England, should manifest so little interest and curiosity, in regard to the names, persons, manners, sufferings, and writings, of their ancestry, as appears to be the case at present in the United States. The members of the churches properly attached to the doctrines of the Non-conformists, have not that lively impression of gratitude and obligation to the struggles of the Puritans, which should characterize men who enjoy inestimable blessings, purchased by cruel bonds, far exilements, and bloody death. The young are almost ignorant of the church history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and when they do hear of the Puritans, it is probably from some infidel novelist or historian, who describes them as uncouth, sour, ignorant fanatics, or from the bigoted representations of half-popish ecclesiastics, who seem to regard amputation from Rome as a severe affliction.”