This treatise has one recurring theme: it is better to choose affliction than sin. What a different message this is from what is being propagated today from many pulpits, religious radio or television! Anything but affliction! But Burroughs, ever the master at handling Scripture and expounding godly wisdom, show that nothing is to be more feared than sin, nothing is to be more hated than sin. May it please God to use this book, back in print after nearly 350 years, to give us once again a dread of sin, a hatred for sin, and a love for holiness.
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