Review: A Perfect Redeemer by William Perkins
How can sinners be righteous in God’s Sight? There can’t be a more important question than this. The answer is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. In this video, we move our focus on God the Son; the Perfect Redeemer.
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A Perfect Redeemer by William Perkins
Book info
P. #: p. 142
Author: William Perkins (1558-1602)
Life: As a young man, he fell into recklessness, profanity, drunkenness, and other types of sin. In 1577, he entered Christ’s College in Cambridge. He received his bachelor’s degree in 1581 and a master’s degree in 1584. While a student, Perkins experienced a powerful conversion when he overheard a woman and child refer to him as “drunken Perkins.” From 1584 until his death in 1602, he served at Great St. Andrew’s Church, Cambridge, which was a very influential pulpit. Perkins’ life is full of great information, and these are only a few small pieces of his story. When Perkins died in 1602 from kidney stone complications, his wife was pregnant and activily caring for 3 others while also grieving the loss of 3 other which died of various diseases.
General info about author: Perkins was a pastor, theologian, author, dean of Christ College, professor, husband and father. He directly influenced puritans such as William Ames, Richard Sibbes, John Cotton, and John Preston and his legacy lives on to this day.
Overall Summary/review:
This book primarily builds upon Philippians 3:7-21 and is written almost like a commentary on this text as each chapter is expanding on a different verse.
As Perkins’ desire is for the reader to know Christ, he focuses much of the book on the knowledge of Christ (p. 42, 48, 105, 135).
Because Perkins is writing for you to have the right knowledge of Christ, his writing flows in a very logical and easy to follow way.
But Perkins doesn’t end with knowledge, but also strongly desires that we feel emotions in relation to our knowledge (p. 51, 92, 103, 105)
And then finally, Perkins wants us to not just have knowledge, and not just to feel things as a result, but to actually apply these things in our daily lives. He does so by constantly pointing us back to Christ (p. 1, 21, 57, 69-70, 92)
Close with p. 142 where all of these points are seen in one place.