Reading plan · 54 days · 10 hr 6 min read

The Puritan Heart

Eight weeks with three masters of the inner life. Richard Sibbes binds up the bruised reed, John Owen wages war on the sin that still dwells within, and Thomas Watson rests the whole struggle on the promise that all things work together for good.

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In this plan

Days 1–28 The Bruised Reed 28 days · 3 hr 11 min read
About this book
Week 1 Days 1–7
  1. The Text opened and divided. What the Reed is, and what the bruising 5 min Today
  2. Those that Christ hath to do withal are bruised 3 min
  3. Christ will not break the Bruised Reed 5 min
  4. Signs of one truly bruised. Means and measure of bruising, and comfort to such 8 min
  5. Grace is little at first 3 min
  6. Grace is mingled with Corruption 3 min
  7. Christ will not quench small and weak beginnings 8 min
Week 2 Days 8–14
  1. Tenderness required in ministers toward young beginners 7 min
  2. Governors should be tender of weak ones, and also private Christians 7 min
  3. Rules to try whether we be such as Christ will not quench 5 min
  4. Signs of smoking flax which Christ will not quench 10 min
  5. Scruples hindering comfort removed 8 min
  6. Set upon Duties notwithstanding Weaknesses 4 min
  7. The case of Indisposition resolved, and Discouragements 7 min
Week 3 Days 15–21
  1. Of infirmities. No cause of discouragement, in whom they are, and how to recover peace lost 7 min
  2. Satan not to be believed, as he representeth Christ unto us 8 min
  3. Reproof of such as sin against this merciful disposition in Christ. Of quenching the Spirit 16 min
  4. Of Christ's judgment in us, and his victory: what it is 3 min
  5. Christ is so mild that yet he will govern those that enjoy the comfort of his mildness 4 min
  6. The spiritual government of Christ is joined with judgment and wisdom 7 min
  7. Where true wisdom and judgment is, there Christ sets up his government 5 min
Week 4 Days 22–28
  1. Christ's government is victorious 14 min
  2. Means to make Grace victorious 9 min
  3. All should side with Christ 3 min
  4. Christ's government shall be openly victorious 6 min
  5. Christ alone advanceth this government 7 min
  6. Victory not to be had without fighting 6 min
  7. Be encouraged to go on cheerfully, with confidence of prevailing 11 min
Days 29–43 The Mortification of Sin in Believers 15 days · 3 hr 33 min read
About this book
Week 1 Days 29–35
  1. Preface 3 min
  2. The foundation of the whole discourse, laid in Romans viii. 13 10 min
  3. The necessity of mortification: the duty of the best believers 19 min
  4. The Spirit is the only author of this work Gal. v. 19–23 · 12 min
  5. The usefulness of mortification to the vigour of our spiritual lives 8 min
  6. What it is to mortify a sin, negatively considered 10 min
  7. The mortification of sin in particular described 13 min
Week 2 Days 36–42
  1. General rules, without which no lust will be mortified 19 min
  2. Without universal sincerity, no one lust will be mortified 7 min
  3. Consider the dangerous symptoms of any lust 18 min
  4. Get a clear sense of the guilt, danger and evil of the sin 16 min
  5. Load thy conscience with the guilt of the perplexing distemper 16 min
  6. Thoughtfulness of the excellency of the majesty of God 19 min
  7. When the heart is disquieted by sin, speak no peace to it until God speak it 22 min
Week 3 Day 43
  1. Act faith on Christ for the killing of thy sin 21 min
Days 44–54 All Things for Good 11 days · 3 hr 21 min read
About this book
Week 1 Days 44–50
  1. Extract from the Preface 1 min
  2. Introduction 4 min
  3. The best things work for good to the godly 20 min
  4. The worst things work for good to the godly 48 min
  5. Why all things work for good 24 min
  6. Of love to God 13 min
  7. The tests of love to God 24 min
Week 2 Days 51–54
  1. An exhortation to love God 29 min
  2. Effectual calling 26 min
  3. Exhortations to those who are called 8 min
  4. Concerning God’s purpose 5 min

Authors

Richard Sibbes · John Owen · Thomas Watson