william perkins

The Christian's Cup of Affliction: Insights from Robert Hill’s 1604 Preface to Perkins I've been spending some time in the works of William Perkins lately and came across this incredibly edifying preface by Robert Hill from 1604. It's a powerful reminder of how God uses trials to shape us...

Folks, I'm reading The Art of Prophesying by William Perkins (and I'm loving it). When doing reading and research, whether in Scripture, ancient writers, or other resources, he encourages the use of a commonplace book. The problem I'm having is visualizing what he describes for its format...

"Christ was conceived and borne in bodily manner, that there might be a spiritual conception and birth of him in our hearts, as Paul saith [Gal 4:19], and that is, when we are made new creatures by Christ and perform obedience to our creator. When the people said to Christ that his mother and...