“Puritanism … is a type of mind ... an attitude ... a spirit … the essential and most characteristic note ... the feeling that the Reformation had not gone far enough … it has kept the church, and the doctrine of the church, in the central position.”

“The intensity of the Puritans’ beliefs and actions is adequately understood only when one realizes their devotion to the Bible as the Word of God … the principal source of Puritan ideology was the Bible itself.”

“The age of the Puritans changed a nation and planted faithful seed throughout the world.”

“ … to the Puritan divines, the authority of the Bible was so important and so obvious that even to raise a question on the matter was to succumb to ‘strange temptations, hellish blasphemies.’”

“What gives Puritanism its strength is its bedrock foundation of committed Biblicism, its public and private worship in the church and in the home which reinforce each other, and its ethical commitment of service.”