Second Reformation Reforms

These [Puritan and Dutch Second Reformation] movements embraced similar ideals and bore similar roles: to foster biblical and God-glorifying experiential piety and ethical precision in the life of individuals, churches, and the entire nation. Only England, however, had an opportunity to work out these ideals in full, during the Cromwellian years.

 

Joel Beeke. "The Dutch Second Reformation," in ed. Joel R. Beeke, The Christians Reasonable Service: Volume 1, trans. Bartel Elshout (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 1992), lxxxvii.