That God loves everybody, is, we may say, quite a modern belief. But it needs to be said with emphasis that this set of twisted half-truths is something other than the biblical gospel. The Puritans were Christians who believed that the Bible ought to be the sole authority for the doctrine and practice of the church. They were convinced that the Protestant Reformation had not gone far enough in eliminating unscriptural traditions from the Church, and so, in a very real sense, they were second-generation Reformers, seeking to finish the work begun by early Reformers like Luther and Tyndale. The reforming spirit of the Puritans ought to exemplify Christianity in every age.
Reformation is a never-ending task for two reasons.
Secondly and more importantly, because human depravity makes us so prone to wander from the truth. God's people need to be constantly vigilant to identify and oppose the age-old errors that keep reappearing, sometimes in new disguises, that threaten the spiritual vitality and radical witness of the church. The great enemy of Biblical Christianity in the days of the Puritans was Roman Catholicism, both in its full manifestation as well as in the vestiges of Catholicism carried over into the Anglican Church. In our present day, the great enemy of Biblical Christianity is the arrogant pragmatism that measures success by counting noses rather than seriously assessing the spiritual condition and progress of its converts. This pragmatic approach turns its back on what the Bible says about God's sovereignty, man's depravity, and the manner of worship that is most pleasing to God.