Binding: Hardcover Page Count: 374Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria ISBN# : 9781573581592
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Description : Puritan writers were not only gifted preachers and theologians, many of them were also talented poets. And like everything else that they did, these poets wrote for the glory of God. In
Worthy is the Lamb , several of the finest examples of Puritan poetry are collected, all of them written to honor our Lord and Savior. Covers a wide variety of topics including the excellency of Christ, the Word of God, prayer, God's sovereignty, heaven and the mortification of sin. This work can help believers powerfully express the deep concerns and joys of their heart before our Lord in heaven.
We do well to go to the giants of the faith, the Puritans, for theologically substantial poetry. As with a multifaceted, sparkling diamond, their understanding of God is expressed from many unique and beautiful vantage points. Perhaps their view of loving God more for what he is then for what he bestows, as Thomas Watson put it, is a neglected perspective in our day. For "True love is not mercenary. You need not hire a mother to love her child: a soul deeply in love with God needs not be hired by rewards." ... Once the eyes of the soul have come close to God, once you have been enabled to see yourself for what you are and God for who he is, it will be impossible to forget Him or turn back from Him. If the spiritual eyes of the soul have been opened by the Holy Spirit, the Pursuer of your soul will now be the Pursued. A soul deeply in love with God with not love the gifts He bestows only and forget to love the Giver of those gifts. Augustine said you must love God for Himself, His person, and HIs intrinsic excellencies. ,,,it is the constant gazing upon His beauty that will keep the Christian joyfully walking toward the Celestial City to spend eternity with the Lover of his soul.
Our constant prayer should be that the Holy Spirit would enable us to be "a free and voluntary people, and not compelled unto Christ...otherwise than by the sweet constraint of his love" (Richard Sibbes).
