The rare jewel of Christian contentment.
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| Author / Creator: | Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646. |
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| Imprint: | London, Banner of Truth Trust [1964] |
| Description: | 228 pages 19 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Puritan paperbacks Puritan paperbacks. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1880821 |
Table of Contents:
- Biographical introduction
- I. Christian contentment described
- A. It is inward
- B. It is quiet
- What this is not opposed to
- What it is opposed to
- C. It is a frame of spirit
- D. It is a gracious frame
- E. It freely submits to God's disposal
- F. It submits to God's disposal
- G. It takes pleasure in God's disposal
- H. It submits and takes pleasure in God's disposal
- I. It does this in every condition
- II. The mystery of contentment
- A.A Christian is content, yet unsatisfied
- B. He comes to contentment by subtraction
- C. By adding another burden to himself
- D. By changing the affliction into something else
- E. By doing the work of his circumstances
- F. By melting his will into God's will
- G. By purging out what is within
- H. He lives on the dew of God's blessing.
- I. He sees God's love in afflictions
- J. His afflictions are sanctified in Christ
- K. He gets strength from Christ
- L. He makes up his wants in God
- M. He gets contentment from the covenant
- IV. The mystery of contentment- concluded
- N. He supplies wants by what he finds in himself
- O. He gets supply from the covenant
- 1. The covenant in general
- 2. Particular promises of the covenant
- P. He realizes the things of heaven
- Q. He opens his heart to God
- V. How Christ teaches contentment
- A. The lesson of self-denial
- B. The vanity of the creature
- C. To know the one thing needful
- D. To know one's relation to the world
- E. Wherein the good of the creature is
- F. The knowledge of one's own heart.
- VI. How Christ teaches contentment-concluded
- G. The burden of a prosperous condition
- H. The evil of being given up to one's heart's desires
- I. The right knowledge of God's providence
- VII. The excellence of contentment
- A. By it we give God his due worship
- B. In it is much exercise of grace
- C. The soul is fitted to receive mercy
- D. It is fitted to do service
- E. It delivers from temptations
- F. It brings abundant comforts
- G. It gets the comfort of things not possessed
- H. It is a great blessing on the soul
- I.A contented man may expect reward
- J. By it the soul comes nearest the excellence of God
- VIII. The evils of a murmuring spirit
- A. It argues much corruption in the soul
- B. It is the mark of an ungodly man
- C. Murmuring is accounted rebellion
- D. It is contrary to grace, especially in conversion
- E. It is below a Christian.
- IX. The evils of a murmuring spirit-concluded
- F. By murmuring we undo our prayers
- G. The evil effects of murmuring
- H. Discontent is a foolish sin
- I. It provokes the wrath of God
- J. There is a curse on it
- K. There is much of the spirit of Satan in it
- L. It brings an absolute necessity of disquiet
- M. God may withdraw his protection
- X. Aggravations of the sin of murmuring
- A. The greater the mercies the greater the sin of murmuring
- B. When we murmur for small things
- C. When men of gifts and abilities murmur
- D. The freeness of God's mercy
- E. When we have the things for the want of which we were discontent
- F. When men are raised from a low position
- G. When men have been great sinners
- H. When men are of little use in the world
- I. When God is about to humble us
- J. When God's hand is apparent in an affliction.
- XII. How to attain contentment
- A. Considerations to content the heart in any afflicted condition
- 1. The greatness of the mercies we have
- 2. God is beforehand with us with his mercies
- 3. The abundance of mercies God bestows
- 4. All creatures are in a vicissitude
- 5. The creatures suffer for us
- 6. We have but little time in the world
- 7. This has been the condition of our betters
- 8. We were content with the world without grace, and should be now with grace without the world
- 9. We did not give God the glory when we had our desires
- 10. The experience of God doing us good in afflictions.
- XIII. How to attain contentment-concluded
- B. Directions for attaining contentment
- 1. There must be grace to make the soul steady
- 2. Do not grasp too much of the world
- 3. Have a call to every business
- 4. Walk by rule
- 5. Exercise much faith
- 6. Labor to be spiritually-minded
- 7. Do not promise yourselves great things
- 8. Get hearts mortified to the wSorld
- 9. Do not pore too much on afflictions
- 10. Make a good interpretation of God's ways to you
- 11. Do not regard the fancies of other men
- 12. Do not be inordinately taken up with the comforts of the world.