I Hereby Declare...

...February to be Puritan Month on this blog. I'll be posting quotes, poems, hymns, etc, from various Puritans throughout the month.

To get us started, here's a quote from Ebenezer Erskine on humility, from The Humble Soul the Particular Favourite of Heaven:

And I think, that a man never passes the verge of moral humility, till self-righteousness be dethroned, till the high and towering imaginations of the man's own righteousness by the law be levelled by the mighty weapons of the gospel, and he brought to submit to the righteousness of God for justification, which is, in the gospel revealed "from faith to faith.