Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. Our topic this time is

feathery Christians and this is a line from a book by Thomas Watson. Let me tell you

a little bit about the author and the book, and I'll get this from a quote from

our good friend Charles Hadn't Spurgeon.

Spurgeon had this to say, Thomas Watson's body of practical divinity is one of the most

precious of the peerless works of the Puritans and those best acquainted with it prize it

most. Watson was one of the most concise,

racy, illustrative, and suggestive of those eminent divines who made the Puritan

Age the Augustin period of Evan. vines who made the Puritan age the

Augustine period of evangelical literature.

There is a happy union of sound doctrine, heart-searching

experience, and practical wisdom throughout all his works.

And his body of divinity is beyond all the rest useful to the student and the minister.

Well that is a ringing endorsement to be sure of Thomas Watson.

Thomas Watson was a graduate of Emmanuel College Cambridge.

This is the famous Puritan College of Cambridge, there were 72 graduates

of Emmanuel College that went on to be significant Puritan ministers who led from influential pulpit's and also left behind their books were involved in the Westminster Assembly and even were involved in settling the new world and were a significant part of New England Puritanism.

And right there among them was Thomas Watson.

Once Thomas Watson graduated from Emmanuel College, he took his first pastorate at St. Stephen's

Walbrook right in the city of London.

He held that pastorate up until 1660. At that point he was

expelled under the restoration. Curiously enough, six years later, under the great fire of London, St. Stephen's

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