davejonescue
Puritan Board Junior
Hello everybody. I am new here, and am really just beginning my journey into the fascinating world of Puritan literature. I am personally awed at the way the Puritans can at one moment bring you to a position of tearful repentance, then in the same discourse fill your heart with the joy, of the inexpressible depth of the mercy of God, and his abounding love for his children. With that being said, unfortunately, I will not be able to converse on here as much as would like for a while. And this brings me to my next point.
Before I really wanted to dig deep into the Puritans, I was taken aback by the sheer volume of their collected works. In the beginning, I thought there were only a few of them, since in most places that dont really focus on the Puritans, many are not mentioned. But as I started to see that there were not simply 20, or 30 of them; but hundreds of them something inside of me, by Gods grace, desired to see what the collective Puritan thought would be say for a topic like "faith," or "justification" or "sin." So, after brainstorming I came up with a way that is pretty proficient, but also free.
Basically what I did was created a list of Puritans from several sources; APM's Puritan Bio's, Pedersons & Beekes "Meet the Puritans" and Brook's 3 vol. Lives of the Puritans. That gave me about 650 names to go through, look up and search for. Then, I was able to see some posts from here, doing a simple Google search, and was able to garnish some names. And then I looked on PRDL, under their Puritan heading, and went through their list of names. I also checked the Dictionary of National Biography and got some names from their Puritan headings. Right now, I am slowly going through Lyons "Original records of early nonconformity under persecution and indulgence." This latter resource has given me about 2000 names, and so far, after almost concluding the "G's" I have found 117 works covering 36 authors. The place I am looking for works in is EEBO-TCP, or, the public domain sector of EEBO, which is available for anybody to use, for any purpose; as it states on their site. In total, I have collected about 5,100 works, covering 600 Puritans (& Non-Conformists.)
While I know, the works I have collected are not an extensive or completely exhaustive list of all the authors works; I did, just on the premise of order, want to keep this collection strictly from EEBO-TCP (PD.) The Index that has been, and is in the process of being created, utilizes Logos powerful search engine, and the Personal Book option. It can be used if one owns Logos already, or, the Basic version can be used free of charge. I have gone through the process of creating these personal books, each consisting of around 2,000-3,000 11pt pages. So far, I believe I have done around 169 volumes, consisting of around 360,000 or more pages of text, covering 450 or so Puritans, and including around 4,200 works. As of right now, I still have about 150 authors and 1,000 works to make volumes/Personal Books for; and this is without being even half way done going though Lyon's Non-Conformists.
With that being said, I didnt join this site just to push this on people; I really do see a day where I will be able to have awesome and deep conversations, plus I look forward mostly just to be able to read what you all who are more versed in the Puritans than I am have to say. But I was also thinking this may help someone now. It might be sometime until I am actually "free" lol. As I may try to create a portable version of this resource using Doc Fetcher, for those who do not want to install the Personal Books (because installing almost 200 Personal Books does take patience,) and for missionaries, and for the ability for people to give this to others overseas on something as simple and cost affective as a flash-drive. But that would be after I complete it for use in Logos first; and that would be Lord Willing.
Below will be two links, one to a video on Youtube that explains the resource; because it saves me so much time having to repeat the same instructions by typing it out each time. And, there will be a link included to a Zotero Public Library I created where all of the Puritan books in EEBO-TCP are linked, and neatly listed; as this has been the software I have been using to complete the former. I really hope this doesnt break any rules. I am not trying to advertise anything I would profit from. This whole resource is completely free, with the simple goal to glorify God. Because I am under the firm belief, that if revival is going to come to this nation, it is going to come through the Spirit working in the writings of the Puritans. I hope everybody has a blessed day, and look forward to meeting many of you all.
Puritan Index -
Zotero Complete EEBO-PD (TCP) Puritan Library - https://www.zotero.org/groups/4718955/eebo_-_public_domain_complete_puritan_works/library
Before I really wanted to dig deep into the Puritans, I was taken aback by the sheer volume of their collected works. In the beginning, I thought there were only a few of them, since in most places that dont really focus on the Puritans, many are not mentioned. But as I started to see that there were not simply 20, or 30 of them; but hundreds of them something inside of me, by Gods grace, desired to see what the collective Puritan thought would be say for a topic like "faith," or "justification" or "sin." So, after brainstorming I came up with a way that is pretty proficient, but also free.
Basically what I did was created a list of Puritans from several sources; APM's Puritan Bio's, Pedersons & Beekes "Meet the Puritans" and Brook's 3 vol. Lives of the Puritans. That gave me about 650 names to go through, look up and search for. Then, I was able to see some posts from here, doing a simple Google search, and was able to garnish some names. And then I looked on PRDL, under their Puritan heading, and went through their list of names. I also checked the Dictionary of National Biography and got some names from their Puritan headings. Right now, I am slowly going through Lyons "Original records of early nonconformity under persecution and indulgence." This latter resource has given me about 2000 names, and so far, after almost concluding the "G's" I have found 117 works covering 36 authors. The place I am looking for works in is EEBO-TCP, or, the public domain sector of EEBO, which is available for anybody to use, for any purpose; as it states on their site. In total, I have collected about 5,100 works, covering 600 Puritans (& Non-Conformists.)
While I know, the works I have collected are not an extensive or completely exhaustive list of all the authors works; I did, just on the premise of order, want to keep this collection strictly from EEBO-TCP (PD.) The Index that has been, and is in the process of being created, utilizes Logos powerful search engine, and the Personal Book option. It can be used if one owns Logos already, or, the Basic version can be used free of charge. I have gone through the process of creating these personal books, each consisting of around 2,000-3,000 11pt pages. So far, I believe I have done around 169 volumes, consisting of around 360,000 or more pages of text, covering 450 or so Puritans, and including around 4,200 works. As of right now, I still have about 150 authors and 1,000 works to make volumes/Personal Books for; and this is without being even half way done going though Lyon's Non-Conformists.
With that being said, I didnt join this site just to push this on people; I really do see a day where I will be able to have awesome and deep conversations, plus I look forward mostly just to be able to read what you all who are more versed in the Puritans than I am have to say. But I was also thinking this may help someone now. It might be sometime until I am actually "free" lol. As I may try to create a portable version of this resource using Doc Fetcher, for those who do not want to install the Personal Books (because installing almost 200 Personal Books does take patience,) and for missionaries, and for the ability for people to give this to others overseas on something as simple and cost affective as a flash-drive. But that would be after I complete it for use in Logos first; and that would be Lord Willing.
Below will be two links, one to a video on Youtube that explains the resource; because it saves me so much time having to repeat the same instructions by typing it out each time. And, there will be a link included to a Zotero Public Library I created where all of the Puritan books in EEBO-TCP are linked, and neatly listed; as this has been the software I have been using to complete the former. I really hope this doesnt break any rules. I am not trying to advertise anything I would profit from. This whole resource is completely free, with the simple goal to glorify God. Because I am under the firm belief, that if revival is going to come to this nation, it is going to come through the Spirit working in the writings of the Puritans. I hope everybody has a blessed day, and look forward to meeting many of you all.
Puritan Index -
Zotero Complete EEBO-PD (TCP) Puritan Library - https://www.zotero.org/groups/4718955/eebo_-_public_domain_complete_puritan_works/library