J. I. Packer, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Iain Murray, and Ernest Kevan are among the distinguished contributors to this compilation of papers on a wide range of topics pertaining to Puritan and Reformed teaching, piety, and life. This volume, the first in a series, captures the principles and passion of Puritan belief as presented in the Puritan and Reformed Studies Conferences of 1956-1959.The twenty-three papers gathered here are, by design, "practical and constructive, not merely academic", says Packer, and therefore helpful to pastors as well as the whole church.

16 papers by the editor and others on Puritan views of communion with God, Christian joy, missions, preaching, divine intercession, conscience, apostasy, and more.

John Calvin, a beacon for the Puritans, receives considerable attention in this volume of Puritan Papers. J. I. Packer contributes a chapter on Calvin as "a servant of the Word." Others treat Calvin the man, his doctrine of God, the Institutes, and sixteenth-century Geneva. These papers were originally presented on the 400th anniversary of Calvin's death. Other biographical chapters feature George Whitefield and Charles Haddon Spurgeon. In addition, Packer writes on the Puritan approach to worship, Jain Murray on "things indifferent, " and D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Owen's view of schism.

16 Papers on Puritan views of divine communication, catechisms, and spiritual gifts. Biographical chapters on Zwingli, Luther, Cranmer, Knox, Heywood, Kuyper, Rowlan, and others.

Among the 11 papers are biographies of Johy Wycliffe and Joseph Alleine, studies of the Puritans on eschatology and justification, and two articles on Arminianism.