Spiritual Practices of the Puritans

The Puritans wished to live godly lives in heart and thought as well as action. One of the tools they utilised in training their hears and minds was thepractice of diary-writing. In this short overview we see the theory of Puritan diary-writing as worked out by John Beadle, and the inspiring example of the sixteenth-century Puritan Richard Rogers writing about his life.