“One of the most fruitful ways of analyzing the continuities and commonalities, as well as the discontinuities and nuances of divergence and difference, between the Reformers and the writings of the Reformed orthodox or Puritan writers is to examine trajectories of exegesis–specifically to chart the rise of orthodoxy in and through the developing Reformed exegetical tradition” (Richard A. Muller and Bruce S. Ward, Scripture and Worship: Biblical Interpretation and the Directory for Worship, 3).