The first rule of combat is to know your enemy. We do not talk a great deal about sin these days - but perhaps we should. The Puritans certainly did, because they understood its deceptive power and meant to root it out of their own lives.

Many books have been written on the doctrine of sin and few are as practical as this one. Mark Jones puts his expertise in the Puritans to work, distilling their wisdom into short chapters on what sin is, how it operates and how it is fought. Uncomfortable reading, which is the intention.