Emphasis Preaching Journal

When we think of Puritans, we tend to think of the Bible-thumping, strict, “you’re-destined-for-hell” kind of guys. Probably with some buckles on their hats and those ridiculous white collars. But then we read something like Song of Solomon and stop in our tracks. This was something those buckle-hatted sticklers would have read? It sounds more like poetry! Not the modern poetry that is so wrapped up in metaphors that you can’t tell which way is up and which way is down, but poetry like the lines of Romeo and Juliet — love poetry — in-love poetry.