"Volume five… is the best compilation of Puritan systematic theology ever written… This six volume set represents Puritan preaching at its best" (Dr. Joel Beeke, Meet the Puritans, p. 638).

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These are "The Morning Exercises at Cripplegate, St. Giles in the Fields, and in Southwark by 75 Ministers of the Gospel in or Near London with Notes and Translations by James Nichol."

Large crowds of people often gathered for these expositions… Volume five… is the best compilation of Puritan systematic theology ever written, but unfortunately is often overlooked in Puritan studies…. This six volume set represents Puritan preaching at its best… Puritan pastors treasured the full scope of God's counsel…. (They) stove for… excellence. They also made their sermons practical enough to answer the questions of listeners in a thoroughly scriptural manner.

- Dr. Joel Beeke and Randall Pederson, Meet the Puritans: With a Guide To Modern Reprints, pp. 637-639.

Volumes vary in length from 624 to 804 pages and cover a great number of topics that are essential to the Puritan view of God, the world and the Christian life.

The Preface notes, "This celebrated collection of useful and orthodox theology consists... of practical as well as doctrinal discourses, preached by some of the most eminent divines of the 17th century, and published at irregular intervals between the years 1660 and 1691."

Volume six, "The Morning Exercises against Popery; or the principal Errors of the Church of Rome detected and confuted... has always been deemed a standard book on that great controversy," which even in that day was "recently revived... Two of the volumes here described were published prior to the year 1662; consequently all the authors of the sermons in those volumes were Conformists up to that time; and though the majority of them afterwards became for consciences' sake, Nonconformists, yet this circumstance, instead of detracting from their moral and intellectual worth, has served, through intervening years, to enhance their character, in public estimation, as divines of great talents, erudition, and purity."

In short, a sound, useful and judicious collection of Puritan divinity.

Includes sermons by John Owen, Thomas Watson, Thomas Manton, Matthew Poole, Richard Baxter, William Greenhill, James Janeway, Edmund Calamy, Thomas Vincent and many other Puritan ministers of the Gospel.

Volume six contains a phenomenal set of indices (covering all six volumes) which run 179 pages in length.

All six volumes total about 4,150 pages.