On the last day of October I made a trip up country to visit Hoghton Tower. My initial interest was sparked by studies I am conducting at present into the life of Isaac Ambrose. It was worth seeing anyway, although it is very much a 19th century building now, though still keeping to the Tudor style. The guide to the house was okay but not really looking at it from the angle I wanted. James I slept there once and they claim a Shakespeare connection though it looked unlikely to me on the face of it. Well worth seeing if you are in that part of the world. For more on Isaac Ambrose see here.
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The Christian Warrior
The Christian Warrior is a short work by the Puritan Isaac Ambrose that was first published in 1660. In 1997 an 1837 edition (abridged, methodised and improved by Thomas Jones of Northampton) was reprinted in hardback by SDG and is still available. It is an excellent little book in the usual Puritan style and is reminiscent of The Christian in complete armour, Precious Remedies against Satan's devices and other books from that period. It begins by reminding us that the Christian life is a battle and goes on to deal with various situations where Satan attacks, giving remedies all the way from infancy to the end of life. It could probably do with some slight editing for repetition but on the whole it is useful book full of helpful pastoral advice and biblical instruction.
Some quotations
Any feeble David may wrestle with Goliath, so
long as the battle is the Lord's; and the warrior comes to the field in the name
of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel. p 10
Sin, like a black river of poison, flows from
Adam, through one generation after another, to the end of the world. p 21
Holy thoughts are precious things; they are
God's messengers; they come from God, and lead to God again. Wherever they are
entertained, they bestow exceeding great rewards. Therefore cherish these
motions of the Spirit, and know that they come from heaven to benefit thy
soul. p 31
The flesh is a worse enemy than the devil
himself. p 35
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