"Satan will not be charmed out of his possession: we must lay siege to the souls of sinners, which are his garrison, and find out where his chief strength lieth, and lay the battery of God's ordnance against it, and ply it close, til a breach is made; and then suffer them not by their shifts to repair it again"- Richard Baxter
Just a note:
Thinking through how God is redeeming all of his creation, which means our physical as well as as our spiritual bodies (as though those can be seperated), when I read the puritans and their spiritual offspring I always wish that they would use a different term than "soul". But I have to always remind myself that they did not pit the soul against the body. Or at least they didn't in the same way we moderns often do. The best of them thought that the testing grounds of theology is praxis, life lived. They wanted to live, like Death Cab for Cutie, where soul meets body.
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