The Christian's Daily Walk, in Holy Security and Peace Paperback – August 21, 2017

Raise your hand if you have heard of Henry Scudder. I confess, I had not. But with the recommendation of friends, I began to explore this 17th century Puritan work. After all, how could a book highly commended by John Owen and Richard Baxter fail to please? I can now add the favorable recommendation of this sinner saved by grace. The book is intensely practical. This is no book of high flown rhetoric or of sapless orthodoxy. It represents experiential Calvinism at its best. Perusal of the table of contents alone will make the hungry-hearted believer eager to hear what this godly 17th century leader had to tell us. For example, he tells us how to walk with God, how to begin the day with God, how to keep the Lord's day, how to read the Word and meditate upon it, how to behave in prosperity or adversity, how to know peace and freedom from anxious care, how to combat false fears (of which he addresses many), and how to know the peace of God. Be sure that the next time you are asked, you can say:"Yes! I know Henry Scudder."

The insights of this book are profound.

truly one of the amazing christian works that is as relevant today as it was in the 1600's

wonderful book

If you could have only one book other than The Bible, Scudder's The Christian's Daily Walk should be the one. Reading this book is like having the privilege of being apprenticed to a master craftsman, for here you learn practical skills in the Christian faith, all designed to enable the Christian to commune with God. Theology (certainly an important pursuit) is only implicit in this book, as the focus is on how to live the Christian life by walking with God daily. Here you will find no parlaying with the modern sophistry that tries to redefine Christian piety to include every vile and despicable abomination that Holy Scripture so clearly condemns. This book simply shows you what a Christian life looks like, from the Scriptural point of view, and it tells you how to properly go about living that life.Beautifully simple and simply beautiful. A must-read for anyone who sincerely desires true communion with the God of the Holy Bible, the One True God.

Bad kindle version

Possibly worth five stars. The problem is that is seems to be jam-packed full of stuff - too much to take in at one time. It's almost a book to be read sentence by sentence, or paragraph by paragraph, rather than pages or a chapter at a time. For those who think the Puritans are too heavy or theological and not practically enough, this might be a good book to dispel that myth - it certainly starts out in a very vigorous and practical manner, and is written with great brevity, cramming much into a short compass.My advice would be that Christian fathers by this and use it for teaching their sons, and for conducting family worship. It needs to be taken in very small bite-size chunks. It is written with great brevity, as I said, and allows room, or necessity, for the father to expand upon an idea, to flesh it out with words of his own choosing. Present the teaching generally to your whole family as a part of your daily family worship, and take your son aside, or go for a walk with him each day, and talk him through it more thoroughly, discussing the implications of the teachings for your own lives, and practicalities putting these teachings into effect. It's the sort of book which could demand a complete overhaul of your lifestyles as you seek the get the household in order to make it conducive to living a 'purpose-driven' life (to borrow that modern phrase) with good routine and discipline and focus.I've only read the print-on-demand version, which is a reprint of the 1826 edition and contains forewords and introductions by Richard Baxter, John Owen, and Thomas Chalmers, and I'm not sure if there are any better editions are available.