After a couple of years silence I am restarting my Alaska Puritan blog. I hope to post a couple times a week on blessing I am finding as I read the Puritans. Currently I am Reading William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour (600 pages on Ephesians 6:10-20)

Gurnall starts out  calling Ephesians 6:10-20 "A Sweet and Powerful Encouragement to the War". He is primarily talking about doing battle with the sins that we cherish and nurture. Spiritual Warfare for the puritans was primarily about holiness not success in ministry as often the case in the 21st century.

"The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet." (13)

"O how uncomely a sight is it to see, a bold sinner and a fearful saint, one resolved to be wicked, and a Christian wavering in his holy course, ... Take heart therefore, O ye saints, and be strong; your cause is good, God himself espouseth your quarrel, who hath appointed his own Son, General of the field, called 'Captain of our Salvation'."(16)