It is Hanson"s belief that Abraham Cheare (1626–1668) can help us enormously, for Cheare was a Puritan and after 1660, when the Anglican state church sought to extirpate Puritanism. Cheare and many others knew first-hand what it was to suffer for Christ’s sake and his example and writings in this regard are tremendously helpful in forging a theology of suffering for Christians undergoing the same today.