Sibbes—Puritan, encouraging the backslider—offers a self-check for election. Colossians 3:12: put on bowels of mercy toward the fatherless and needy. That’s how you demonstrate you’re one of the elect. Modern conservative Christianity has developed different assurance criteria. Mercy toward the needy as evidence of election has been quietly retired. Sibbes didn’t get that memo.
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Manton—Puritan, expounding James—observes that hypocrites are deficient in one area specifically. They pray much, know much, hear much. They do not give much. Basil noticed the same centuries earlier: many excel at fasting and sighing, demonstrations costing nothing but personal discomfort, while remaining sordid toward the poor. Paul noticed. Basil noticed. Manton noticed. One wonders why it keeps needing to be said.
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A quotation from Hilaire Belloc
He served his God so faithfully and well,Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) Franco-British writer, historian [Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc]
Poem (1923), “Epigram 45: On a Puritan,” Sonnets and Verse (1923 ed.)
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#Puritan Samuel Annesley limits our liberty with money two ways: don’t hoard so much you deny yourself daily comfort, and don’t withhold what the poor genuinely need. Spend on your own needs and comforts — but reserve a share for the poor’s necessities.
We can picture Dickens’ miser shivering over his coins. But do we hoard against ourselves from fear? And who among us keeps a seat at our table for what the poor require? How many preachers urge this today?
Thomas Watson, that wonderfully blunt Puritan, basically says: lovely speeches about compassion are useless if the poor are still hungry. You can drizzle honeyed words everywhere—but the wounded need bread, not poetry. Better to be a saint with a loaf than an angel with a microphone.
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Thomas Adams—called the “Shakespeare of the Puritans”—warned that God sees every injustice and is not mocked. He rebuked rich oppressors and greedy commoners alike, then turned the knife inward: our sins include hardness toward the poor and flattering the rich. The reckoning begins at home.
Arthur Dent, an English Puritan, reflects on salvation and recalls Job’s grim scenes of cruelty. Under feudal lords, the poor—farmers, laborers, widows—trembled and hid at their approach. One wonders: where do the poor still hide today? And can we be the sort whose voice, like in Job 29, brings them relief rather than dread?
Watson on the 6th Commandment: mercy works adorn the gospel as fruit adorns a tree (Matt. 5:16)—they credit religion and silence its critics. Westminster-level conviction.
Contrast today: God is fine with our bad PR, gainsayers deserve snark, a few meals last month covers it. Watson’s question lingers: how do you let your light shine?
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