The most important message for every person is that of the need for repentance - by one of the last great Puritan preachers, Thomas Boston (1676-1732). With wonderful exposition, Boston opens up a multitude of scripture passages on an issue that it
"...If you be not converted, you are not true Christians. You may have the name, but you have not the nature." Richard Baxter, A Treatise of Conversion 1657. Puritan religious experience was centered on conversion, the 'new birth' of the soul