William Perkins

William Perkins (1558–1602) was an English Reformed theologian and fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, whose lectures at St Andrew the Great made him the foremost Puritan voice of the Elizabethan era. Dubbed the "father of Puritanism," his works on predestination, assurance, and practical divinity outsold Calvin and Beza in England and shaped a generation of Puritan ministers on both sides of the Atlantic.