"The Puritan glut of words is evident in their style
or writing. In choosing quotations for this book
I had to repeatedly omit redundancies from
Passages. The characteristic Puritan style, I
Soon concluded, is to take at least twice as many
Words as necessary to express a thought.
`God hath placed us in the world to do Him some
work. This is God’s working place; He hath
houses of work for us: now our lot here is to
do work, to be in some calling…to work for God’"
This is an example of a puritan religious sermon. This sermon is telling us that the puritans made God a special part of their daily living. It is also telling us that the puritans worked for God or they basically performed everything for God. God was their main purpose of living. The puritans believed in predestination, and they distinguished between "justification," or the gift of God's grace given to the elect, and "sanctification," the holy behavior that supposedly resulted when an individual had been saved.
Good reflection
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