In his runaway 17th-century bestseller, Practice of Piety, Lewis Bayly says true godliness is: “to join together, in watching, fasting, praying, reading the Scriptures, keeping his Sabbaths, hearing sermons, receiving the holy Communion, relieving the poor, exercising in all humility the works of piety to God, and walking conscionably in the duties of our calling towards men.”
Glenn Hinson says Bayly’s statement summarizes “the whole Puritan platform.”
That’s one platform, in this platform-wild election season, I can support.