The Ultimate Puritan Reading List

In the video below, Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley present their top choices for starting to read the Puritans. Below the video you’ll find a list personally prepared by Joel and Paul, with links to purchase from RHB.

Joel and Paul discuss most of the books on this list in the video below, but a few extras are added that they want you to read as well. Enjoy!

Primary Sources by the Puritans

1. John Flavel, Christ and His Threefold Office

2. John Flavel, Christ Humbled Yet Exalted

3. Thomas Watson, Heaven Taken by Storm

4. Jeremiah Burroughs, A Treatise on Earthly-Mindedness

5. Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies against Satan’s Devices

6. William Perkins, The Works of William Perkins

7. Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections

8. Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards

9. Thomas Goodwin, A Habitual Sight of Him

10. Thomas Goodwin, Christ Set Forth

11. Thomas Goodwin, Christ Our Mediator (within his Works)

12. Thomas Goodwin, The Works of Thomas Goodwin

Secondary Sources about the Puritans

1. Joel R. Beeke and Michael Reeves, Following God Fully: An Introduction to the Puritans

2. Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were

3. Joel R. Beeke and Randall J. Pederson, Meet the Puritans: With a Guide to Modern Reprints

4. J. I. Packer, A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life

5. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Puritans: Their Origins and Successors

6. Joel R. Beeke and Mark Jones, A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life