Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.

ISBN 0-85151-196-1. The book has been preached over scores of times and is in our judgment the best thought-breeder in all our library. John Newton the converted slave trader said that if he was confined to one book beside the Bible he'd choose Christian Armour.

He was made rector of Lavenham in Suffolk in 1644; and before he received that appointment he seems to have officiated perhaps as curate at Sudbury. At the Restoration he signed the declaration required by the Act of Uniformity 1662 and on this account he was the subject of a libellous attack publiWilliam Gurnalld in 1665 entitled Covenant-Renouncers Desperate Apostates.