Practical Divinity
À propos de cet e-book
Fenner was no conceited man with airy speculations; his words strike where flesh is tender and conscience is raw. He does not speak of religion as ornament, but as life and death. Every page breathes the marrow of Practical Divinity: doctrine made lived truth, Scripture set like nails into the heart, Christ pressed as the only refuge for guilty souls, and holiness urged as the safest shield against judgment.
To read these sermons is to sit under a seventeenth-century herald who feared God more than men, who could speak comfort to the broken and thunder to the careless. In an age dulled with trifles, Fenner’s voice calls us to tremble, to pray, to repent, and to cling to Christ until the door of mercy is opened. These sermons remain as timely as ever, for the God who once dealt with England in Fenner’s day is the same God who deals with nations and souls now.
À propos de l'auteur
William Fenner (1600–1640) was one of the clearest voices of seventeenth-century English Puritanism. His sermons are plain, zealous, and piercing, filled with Scripture and applied with searching force.
C. Matthew McMahon, Ph.D., Th.D., is a Reformed theologian, and pastor of Grace Chapel in Crossville, TN; part of the Biblical Reformed Synod of Christ the King. He is the founder and chairman of A Puritan's Mind, the largest Reformed website on the internet for students of the Bible concerning Reformed Theology, the Puritans and Covenant Theology. He is the founder of Puritan Publications which publishes rare Reformed and Puritan works from the 17th century, specializing in the Westminster Assembly. He is also the owner of Reformed.org, and the Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics.
