Digital Puritan Press is pleased to announce the release of The Christian in Complete Armor, by William Gurnall. This digital-only offering is the product of more than two years of editorial work. It is properly formatted (including extensive hyperlinking, and Greek and Hebrew words which display correctly), minimally modernized, and packed with hundreds of embedded Scripture references (no internet connection required) and many helpful footnotes. This volume includes J.C. Ryle’s biographical preface, and is appended with Gurnall’s two known sermons: “The Magistrate’s Portraiture Drawn With a Scripture Pencil” and “The Christian’s Labor and Reward.”
For those unfamiliar with the work, The Christian in Complete Armor is the definitive exposition of Ephesians 6:10-18 (the armor of God). It is meticulously organized and thoroughly executed. For me personally, this work was one of my five ‘bucket-list’ books (a book I wanted to be sure I had read on this side of eternity), so when the opportunity to produce a high quality digital edition arose, I leapt at the chance.
This is not a small work. At just over one million words (3,200 pages), it is not something you are going to read in a month. But I believe the one who is willing to commit regular time to it will be rewarded handsomely.
ISBN 978-1291717341.
eBook (Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google Play, Lulu), $9.99.
Readers will be interested to know that an entirely new edition of Christopher Love’s work The Mortification of the Flesh is now available in paperback and e-book formats. In this book, Love shows believers who are raised to new life in Christ how to remove the residue of sin which once reigned over us. With keen insight, Love teaches us to discern the genuine marks of true mortification from self-serving and counterfeit motives that lie camouflaged as grace. He then provides a wide array of practical helps for cooperating with the Holy Spirit’s work of subduing the vitality and vigor of our worldly corruptions. Pastor Love concludes with additional counsel for rooting out the troublesome sins of lust, pride, and anger.
Edward Pearse (c.1633–1674) was a Puritan pastor in London during a period of immense political and social upheaval in England. He died at forty of tuberculosis, but during his final months, he wrote this book as a guide to his congregation, in order to direct them to life’s one ‘great concern,’ namely, “to have all things set right, well-ordered, and composed in the matters of the soul before leaving this world.” With wonderful clarity, the author shows how putting the spiritual concerns of the soul into the best posture possible for the hour of death is in actuality the key to living an abundant, God-honoring life. Or as Pearse explains:
“Faith without love to Christ is a dead faith.” So states Thomas Vincent in The True Christian’s Love of the Unseen Christ—a book whose sole stated purpose is to help the reader obtain love for Christ in truth and strength. Christian, if your love for Christ has gone cold, if you have lost your passion for serving Christ, this book will be a spark for rekindling that love again, and a bellows for fanning it into flame.