For Baxter, the communicative nature of the faith results in the spread of the gospel. Thankful worship and joyful service speak for all to hear. As light comes into the world by the sun, so good comes by the Christian. Christian must love their neighbors, shine as lights, preach by blameless lives, light the way like candles, speak of their faith, pray for conversion, and communicate goodness. In England where the gospel abounds more than in any other Nation in the world, hosts of the common people live in sensuality and religious unconcern.
Men forget that prayerless families make powerless lives.
The mission theology of the English Puritans has implications for missionary proclamation in our days. There is a parallel between the historical context of the English Puritans and that of our days. We have, as they had, the missionary task to proclaim the eternal gospel in a changing society. As they were, we are in a time of social change. We are moving from modern to postmodern world, from the twentieth to the twenty-first century.