“Among such respectable characters, the divines who assembled at Westminster, in the seventeenth century, may be justly ranked. Their names are truly illustrious, and worthy of being enrolled among the most celebrated characters of their age, or of their country. Their exemplary lives, and religious experiences, are most excellent mirrors of instruction, which may be highly beneficial to all succeeding generations. They willingly spent an active life, in propagating the gospel of Jesus Christ, and in diffusing profitable and religious knowledge among mankind: and it may very justly be said of them, that they were really eyes to the blind. Whatever their hand could write, whatever their tongue could speak, whatever their head could devise, was most solemnly dedicated to the service of God, and to the cause of truth. They did much for the benefit of posterity, when corruption was deeply rooted, and had widely extended it’s baneful influence. They flourished, during the time of our Reformation, and were very active in promoting it.” — James Reid, Memoirs of the Lives and Writings of Those Eminent Divines, Who Convened in the Famous Assembly at Westminster, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 1 (1811), p. vi