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"The Puritans, as a body, have done more to elevate the national character than any class of Englishmen that ever lived. Ardent lovers of civil liberty, and ready to die in its defense-mighty at the council board, and no less mighty in the battlefield-feared abroad throughout Europe, and invincible at home while united-great with their pens, and no less great with their swords-fearing God very much, and fearing men very little-they were a generation of men who have never received from their country the honor that they deserve." -J.C. Ryle (introduction to Thomas Manton's Works, 2:xi) Joel R. Beeke is president of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary and a pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Michael Reeves is president of Union School of Theology in the United Kingdom, local church minister, and Director of the European Theologians Network

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