The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentme..., Jeremiah Burroughs
The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentme..., Jeremiah Burroughs
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The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

Author: Jeremiah Burroughs

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Unabridged: 8 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2016


Synopsis

The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment by Jeremiah Burroughs is classic work featuring clear and simple instructions on how to be content as a Christian.Burroughs will teach you that contentment lies in subtraction, not addition; that the workings of Christianity are nothing like what you thought them to be; and that once you have learned the way from Christ’s word, you will be able to attain contentment as you never before imagined.

About Jeremiah Burroughs

Jeremiah Burroughs (1600–1646) was an English Congregationalist and a well-known Puritan preacher. It is said that he harmoniously combined in his own person qualities that might be considered incompatible: a fervent zeal for doctrinal purity and worship and a peaceable spirit which longed and labored for Christian unity. It is 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 age forty-six.Among his contemporaries and colleagues, Burroughs 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve

This series of sermons by the Puritan Burroughs is a rare jewel of solid counsel and instruction for those battling discontent in their souls. Discontent is all around us. We vent it in coffee shops to friends. Ads for the next cool thing cultivate it for us. In one of the most prosperous societies e......more

Goodreads review by Becky

2020: Always timely. 2019: So good. 2018: Challenging and comforting. So much yet to be learned. 2016: So much wisdom here. I pray I will be a good student and learn my lessons well.......more

This book did me a world of good. I know I've read it before (my print copy is full of underlines), but I found myself immediately able to apply something that really made a difference in the moment. This quote, in particular, did the trick: "Christ teaches the soul [self-denial], so that, as in the......more