The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment (Jeremiah Burroughs) (#7)

Description Product Details The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment Doctoring the Spiritual Disease of Discontent #7 in the Puritan Paperbacks Series Without a doubt, the most readable and useful book ever written to promote a contented, thankful, uncomplaining and grateful walk with God. We live in a world of grumblers, discontent with God’s widespread goodness. It is all too easy for Christians to share in this spirit with the world. This book, in typical Puritan form, “doctors” us by proposing remedies to our “spiritual disease” and helps us grow a spirit of thankfulness in its place. The author focuses especially on helping to bring calm and contentment to the hearts of those in sad and discouraged times. He also aims to promote peace and harmony among believers with various differences of opinion. Table of Contents Christian Contentment Described It is Quiet It is a Frame of spirit A Gracious frame It Freely Submits to God’s disposal Takes Pleasure in God’s Disposal It does this in every condition The Mystery of Contentment A Christian is Content, yet unsatisfied He comes to contentment by subtraction By adding another burden to himself By changing the affliction into something else Doing the work of his circumstances By melting his will into God’s will By purging out that which is within He lives on the dew of God’s blessing He sees God’s love in afflictions His afflictions are sanctified in Christ He gets strength from Christ He makes up his wants in God Gets contentment from the Covenant He supplies wants by what he finds in himself He gets supply from the Covenant  The book goes on to explore: How Christ Teaches Contentment The knowledge of one’s own heart The burden of a prosperous condition Knowing your proper relation to the world Understanding the evil of being given up to one’s own heart’s desires A right knowledge of God’s providence The evils of a murmuring spirit How to attain contentment About the Author, Puritan minister Jeremiah Burroughs Jeremiah Burroughs combined harmoniously in his own person what might be considered incompatible qualities: a fervent zeal for purity of doctrine and worship, and a peaceable spirit, which longed and laboured for Christian unity. For the first of these qualities the Puritans are renowned; in the second, they are deemed by some critics to have been deficient. A close study of the problem suggests that, as a whole, the Puritans were no more and no less concerned about the visible unity of the Church than is the Word of God. But in the case of Burroughs we find a man who, among his contemporaries and colleagues, was recognized as outstanding for his conciliatory temper and efforts. The often-quoted opinion of Richard Baxter was that if all the Episcopalians had been like Archbishop Ussher, all the Presbyterians like Stephen Marshall, and all the Independents like Jeremiah Burroughs, then the breaches of the Church would soon have been healed. Of Burroughs himself, it was said that his heart was broken by the divisions among the Puritan reformers in the 1640s and that this contributed to his premature death at the age of forty-seven. Burroughs authored numerous other books, among which are A Treatise of Earthly-Mindedness and Gospel Worship.