Ore from the Puritans’ Mine
What are the best quotes from the pens of the Puritans? In Ore from the Puritans’ Mine, Dale Smith presents the essential collection of Puritan quotations.
Wonderful Words
At 680 pages, this book features over 3,000 quotations and 250 authors — organized alphabetically with more than 400 subject headings. It is a treasure-trove of wonderful words, sure to challenge, encourage, and inspire.
Housed in a beautiful hardcover, this book will hold together with frequent use. Preachers and writers will want to visit this book for each sermon or article, sure to find a word for the occasion. An index of topics at the back of the book will help you find everything from “affections” to “zeal.” You can also incorporate readings into your family worship, or as an inspiring part of your devotional quiet time.
Memorable, Quotable, and Striking
As I prepared a sermon on 2 Timothy 4, I found great encouragement from the section on Preaching. “Consider your own insufficiency and weakness together wiht the weight of the work. Who is sufficient for these things? Which if you do, you will not dare study without prayer nor yet pray without study, when God allows you time for both. It is a weighty work to bring sinners to Christ.” Thomas Boston, Art of Man-Fishing, page 92.
What I found to be drawn to were the shorter, simple quotes. “Envy is a denial of providence.” Stephen Charnock, Horn, Puritan Remembrancer, 93. Memorable, quotable, and striking.
Puritan Wisdom and Passion
My copy of this book was sent as a special Puritan Bundle set together with Meet the Puritans, A Puritan Theology, and a Free Study Guide. Gift this 3-piece set collection to the Puritan-lover and in your life.
Each quote comes with a citation — especially helpful if you want to read more from an author or explore more of a topic. Come to this book to be blessed with Puritan wisdom and passion.
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