While many Puritans faced persecution, shamming, banishment, and even death, not many experienced it to the level of Dr. Alexander Leighton (1568 – 1643). Leighton was a Scottish medical doctor, teacher, and Puritan preacher who gained attention by writing “An Appeal to Parliament; or Zion`s plea against Prelacy” which was to call out the unbiblical… Read More ›

Richard Sibbes was called “Heavenly Doctor Sibbes.” He was known for his God-honouring preaching and living as if heaven was always before his eyes.  Richard Sibbes (1577–1635) was born at Tostock, Suffolk, of old England. As a young boy he loved his books and was uninterested in following his father’s trade as a wheelwright. Instead, Sibbes… Read More ›

Be not troubled to think what shall become of thee and thine after my death, for be assured that my God, and the God of the widows and the fatherless, will not forsake thee, but will wonderfully provide for those and be comforted in this, that tho’ men take thy husband from thee, they cannot… Read More ›