The Puritans and The Christian Soldier

The Christian is a soldier and must expect to encounter enemies, and to engage in many a severe conflict. The enemies of the Christian have been commonly divided into three classes—the world, the flesh, and the devil. But though these may be conceived of, and spoken of separately, they resist the Christian soldier by their combined powers. The devil is the agent; the world furnishes the bait or the object of temptation; and the flesh, or our own corrupt nature, is the subject on which the temptation operates. A ALEXANDER, The book by Thomas Goodwin quoted here is The Child of Light Walking in Darkness 1636.