J C Ryle on Puritan Writing

"Their (Puritan) works still speak for them on the shelves of every well-furnished library".

J C Ryle - "Introduction" - The Works of Thomas Manton - Volume 2: pxi - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh.

J C Ryle on the Puritan's Writing

"Their works still speak for them on the shelves of every well-furnished theological library".

J C Ryle - "Foreword to the Works of Thomas Manton" - Volume 2: pxi - cited in Beeke, Joel R and Pederson R J - "Meet the Puritans" - Reformation Heritage Books (2oo6) - (p2).

Joel Beeke on the Puritans and Writing

"Although Puritans were barred from the pulpits and universities, the repressive measures could not silence their pens".

Beeke, Joel R and Pederson R J - "Meet the Puritans" - Reformation Heritage Books (2oo6) - (p9).

J I Packer on Puritan Writing

"Puritan analytical method accounts for the length of Puritan expositions - Joseph Caryl's 6000 pages on Job; 2000 plus in folio on Hebrews from John Owen, Hildersham's 152 sermons on Psalm 51:7, over 800 pages of small print in William Gurnall's treatment of Ephesians 6:10-20 ... What led the Puritans into such long-windedness was their passion for throughness in extracting all doctrines and developing all applications.

Clearly once they started drawing out implications and applications they found it hard to stop. Yet their variety of matter is great, repetition is minimal, the sense that they begin in the middle rather than at the beginning is soon overcome and interest once gained does not fade".

J I Packer - "Among God's Giants" - Kingsway (1993) - (p95).

J I Packer on John Owen

"Owen did not write for superficial readers. He wrote rather for those who, once they take up a subject cannot rest until they see to the bottom of it and who find exhaustiveness not exhausting but satisfying and refreshing".

J I Packer - "Among God's Giants" - Kingsway (1993) - (p253).