Puritan Theology III

Lectures and readings in English.

1. 1. Lectures Listen, outline, and take notes on the following lectures:

   • Puritan Theology Lectures 18B-22 Dr. Joel Beeke 6 h Broken link Doctrinal

2. 2. Reading Read and provide chapter summaries:

   • The Four Last Things Robert Bolton 536 pp. Open source Doctrinal
   • Doctrine of the Two Sacraments Ezekiel Hopkins 125 pp. Open source Doctrinal
   • Divine Right of Church Government Samuel Rutherford 799 pp. Open source Doctrinal
   • Biblical Elders and Deacons Nehemiah Coxe 26 pp. Open source Doctrinal Under review Teacher to review (subscription to the Westminster Standards or the Three Forms not established; unverified): Nehemiah Coxe (outside the Westminster and Three Forms line).

3. Reading In the subjects covered (Glorification, Heaven, Hell, Return of Christ, Judgment, Ecclesiology, Sacraments), read:

   • Marrow of Sacred Divinity Ames 60 pp. Open source Doctrinal
   • A Body of Divinity Ussher 74 pp. Doctrinal No link: find it in a library or bookstore.
   • A Body of Divinity (Vols. 1 and 2 of Works of Thomas Boston) Boston 84 pp. Doctrinal No link: find it in a library or bookstore.
   • A Body of Practical Divinity (Vols. 1 & 2) Watson 62 pp. Doctrinal No link: find it in a library or bookstore.
   • A Body of Divinity Willard 66 pp. Doctrinal No link: find it in a library or bookstore.

   Total: TOTAL LECTURES: 6 hours; TOTAL PAGES: 1,832

4. 3. Assignment Write a 40 page paper comparing and contrasting the views of Ames, Ussher, Boston, Watson, and Willard in the subjects covered in this course.

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Every lecture and reading carries its role. "Under review" means the teacher's subscription to the Westminster Standards or the Three Forms of Unity is not yet established; "Read as comparison" means the material teaches the 1788 American text of WCF 20.4, 23 or 31 or of Larger Catechism Q.109, which the school reads beside the 1647 text. Nothing has been removed.