Yesterday, I quoted from John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress concerning the Slough of Despond (otherwise known as the Swamp of Despair). This swamp of despair is the place that many who set out to follow Christ and remove the burden of… Continue Reading
Jeremiah Burroughs was born sometime around 1600. He went to college at Emmanuel College in Cambridge in 1617 finally graduating with a Master of Arts in 1624. His tutor was another famous Puritan–Thomas Hooker. He began his ministerial “career” as… Continue Reading
Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612 of nonconformist stock. Her father, Thomas Dudley, was a solider that had managed the affairs of the Earl of Lincoln. Due to her families position Anne was a well-educated woman. At the age of… Continue Reading
…had the heart been well guarded at first, it had never come to this height: the temptation had been stopped in the first or second act. And indeed there it is stopped easily: for it is the motions of a… Continue Reading