Andrew Cambers has made available an excellent critical edition of John Rastrick's memoir which recounts the Lincolnshire clergyman's fascinating journey from conformist Puritan to Nonconformist. Raised near Sleaford, Rastrick attended Cambridge and later served as a priest at Kirton in Holland. He left the Church of England in 1687 and then ministered to Nonconformist congregations in Spalding, Rotherham and King's Lynn. A devotee of Baxter, Rastrick demanded a certain level of godliness from his flock and his diary tells of much conflict resulting from such a demand. His autobiography sheds light on local alignments that developed within both the Church of England and Nonconformity. Numerous entries illuminate his views of baptism, the lord's supper, confirmation, liturgy, ecclesiastical authority and much more. The tone of the diary is more honest than Rastrick had hoped. Rastrick charged his eldest son, William, to remove the embarrassing details before making the diary available to others. Cambers's edition, however, retains descriptions of familial struggles, personal temptations, delicate prayers and painful confessions, giving the reader a rare glimpse into the private life of a Nonconformist minister. Overall, the diary is characterised more by struggle than victory. The account ends somewhat abruptly after 1713 but, in the introduction, Cambers includes a brief summary of Rastrick's unwritten years. The introduction also contains a discussion of the history, appearance, date and provenance of the manuscript. Helpful footnotes provide modern definitions of the archaic terminology as well as additional biographical material. The textual difficulties are carefully documented and Cambers's modern conventions provide a transcription that is very readable.