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Reference list

A PDF document listing primary and secondary sources consulted in the development of this project is available.


More on Puritan Meditation

Dr. Joel R. Beeke's article "The Puritan Practice of Meditation" is a helpful resource providing further insights into the discipline of meditation as the Puritans understood it. (Available in PDF format.)


Primary source documents online

There are a number of important scholarly resources online which allow study of Puritan works or bodies of historic documents which include texts related to Puritan studies. Some of these include:

Christian Classics Ethereal Library (Calvin College)
Early English Books Online
The Jonathan Edwards Center (Yale University)
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (University of Pennsylvania)

Further Reading

Those new to studies in Puritanism or Early Modern England may find the following resources helpful.

Joel R. Beeke and Randall J. Pederson, Meet the Puritans (Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2006).

Robert Bucholz and Newton Key, Early Modern England: 1485-1714: A Narrative History (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004).

Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints: The Puritans as they Really Were (Grand Rapids: Academie Books, 1986).



Meditation stands between the two ordinances of reading and praying, 
				as the grand improver of the former, and the high quickener of the latter.



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