Perhaps a warning of sorts is necessary at this point. Once you begin to read the Puritans, you may find yourself in a spiritual sense, somewhat lonely. You will begin to be excited about what you are reading and what you are feeling in your heart, and then you will notice that there aren't many others who know what you are talking about. When you begin to have Isaiah's vision of God from Isaiah 6, and you realize that the reality of God is infinitely beyond anything your mind can fully comprehend, you'll realize that the average man doesn't think much about God at all, much less at the deep level you are thinking. One of the reasons we think so poorly is because we read so little.
Most communicating is done through pictures, videos, and movies.
The work of thinking is all done for us, and therefore we are not forced to wrestle with concepts. Someone else interprets the matter for us in pictures. In the Puritan day, words were frozen on a page and forced you to deal with the thoughts expressed. He shows the important relationship between reading and thinking. He says about the ongoing influence of the Puritans,Whatever I write on the revival of Puritan literature today will be out of date very soon because the printing presses are constantly at work with new translations and newly edited and revised Puritan works.