Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense. —Proverbs 19:11 In his book A Quest for Godliness, J. I. Packer explains the Puritans’ comprehensive understanding of the gospel. He writes: The importance of all this is that it challenges our modern idea that preaching "gospel sermons" means just harping on a few great truths—guilt, and atonement, and forgiveness—set virtually in a theological vacuum. The Puritan view was that preaching ‘gospel