Richard Steele was a Puritan minister in the mid-seventeenth century, but his work The Religious Tradesman is what you might consider a "lost classic." Even in 1747, eighty years after its initial publication, Isaac Watts, writing in the introduction, lamented that the piece was "now very little known;" it's popularity foundering under the disadvantages of an "ancient … Continue reading ‘The Religious Tradesman’ by Richard Steele