I’ve rarely done book reviews in the past, and perhaps I should do more, why not? I wanted to bring this work to your attention: “WILLIAM BRIDGE: THE PURITAN OF THE CONGREGATIONAL WAY.”  I won’t say too much, except this: Buy it. If you have any interest at all in the lives of the Puritans, you’ll love this book. William Bridge, for all practical purposes, is unknown to the world. This book changes that.

I’ll let the author say it: “This volume deals with a congregational puritan who is virtually unknown today. This is the first full-length biography of Bridge who was called to help draw up the Westminster Confession and the Savory Confession. Bridge had to suffer for the faith and was driven out of England for a while. This friend and adviser of John Owen was not one to shirk his duty as a minister of the gospel or as a citizen.”

Dr. Rumburg has authored numerous articles and seven books (Baptists and the State (OP), Stonewall Jackson’s Verse, Some Southern Documents of the People Called Baptists, The Universal Dominion of Christ, The Last Earthly Meeting of Lee and Jackson, William Bridge: the Congregational Puritan, John Pelham of Alabama: Chief of JEB Stuart’s Horse Artillery and Gen. Mark Perrin Lowrey: The Fighting Baptist Parson).

You can find the book “William Bridge: The Puritan of the Congregational Way” here. -JT