'Preached in much pain': Sick Preachers and Sickly Preaching in Seventeenth-Century England

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 24; pp. 30 - 47
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2020
• Subjects: 17th century; Clergy; Illnesses; Older people; Puritanism; Sermons; Speaking; United Kingdom > UK; England

The term 'Puritan' is deployed here to encompass Church of England and later Nonconformist ministers who espoused the significance of preaching God's Word as a pastoral duty.4 Recent scholarship supports this broad approach, demonstrating important continuities in 'Puritan'...