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The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

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Jeremiah Burroughs is worthily reckoned as belonging to the front rank of English puritan preachers. As such he played a prominent part in the Westmi...

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Author: Jeremiah Burroughs
Publisher: Banner of Truth

Jeremiah Burroughs is worthily reckoned as belonging to the front rank of English puritan preachers. As such he played a prominent part in the Westminster Assembly of divines, but died prematurely before the Assembly's work was concluded.

Burrough's writings, some published before and others after his death, were numerous, but The Rare-Jewel of Christian Contentment is one of the most valuable of them all. Its author was much concerned to promote (1) peace among believers of various ‘persuasions' (2) peace and contentment in the hearts of individual believers during what he describes as ‘sad and sinking times'. The Rare Jewel concentrates upon this second aim. It is marked by sanity, clarity, aptness of illustration, and warmth of appeal to the heart. ‘There is an ark that you may come into, and no men in the world may live such comfortable, cheerful and contented lives as the saints of God'. Burroughs presses his lesson home with all the fervour and cogency of a true and faithful minister of God.

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		Biographical Introduction	11
1		Christian Contentment Described	17
	I	It is inward	20
	II	It is quiet	21
		What this is not opposed to	21
		What it is opposed to	22
	III	It is a frame of spirit	25
	IV	It is a qracious frame	29
	V	It freely submits to God's disposal	31
	VI	It submits to God's disposal	33
	VII	It takes pleasure in God's disposal	33
	VIII	It submits and takes pleasure in God's disposal	35
	IX	It does this in every condition	36
2		The Mystery of Contentment	41
	I	A Christian is content, yet unsatisfied	42
	II	He comes to contentment by subtraction	45
	III	By adding another burden to himself	47
	IV	By changing the affliction into something else	49
	V	By doing the work of his circumstances	51
	VI	By melting his will into God's will	53
	VII	By purging out what is within	55
3		The Mystery of Contentment - continued	56
	VIII	He lives on the dew of God's blessing	56
	IX	He sees God's love in afflictions	60
	X	His afflictions are sanctified in Christ	60
	Xl	He gets strength from Christ	62
	XII	He makes up his wants in God	65
	XIII	He gets contentment from the Covenant	69
4		The Mystery of Contentment - concluded	74
		He supplies wants by what he finds in himself	74
		He gets supply from the Covenant	78
		I. The Covenant in general	78
		2. Particular promises in the Covenant	80
	XIV	He realizes the things of Heaven	83
	XV	He opens his heart to God	84
5		How Christ Teaches Contentment	86
	I	The lesson of self-denial	86
	II	The vanity of the creature	91
	III	To know the one thing needful	92
	IV	To know one's relation to the world	93
	V	Wherein the good of the creature is	97
	VI	The knowledge of one's own heart	99
6		How Christ Teaches Contentment- Concluded	103
	VII	The burden of a prosperous condition	103
	VIII	The evil of being given up to one's heart's desires	109
	IX	The right knowledge of God's providence	111
7		The Excellence of Contentment	118
	I	By it we give God his due worship	119
	II	In it is much exercise of grace	121
	III	The soul is fitted to receive mercy	124
	IV	It is fitted to do service	125
	V	It delivers from temptations	126
	VI	It brings abundant comforts	128
	VII	It gets the comfort of things not possessed	129
	VIII	It is a great blessing on the soul	133
	IX	A contented man may expect reward	133
	X	By it the soul comes nearest the excellence of God	134
8		The Evils of a Murmuring Spirit	136
	I	It argues much corruption in the soul	137
	II	It is the mark of an ungodly man	138
	III	Murmuring is accounted rebellion	139
	IV	It is contrary to grace, especially in conversion	141
	V	It is below a Christian	144
9		The Evils of a Murmuring Spirit - concluded	152
	VI	By murmuring we undo our prayers	152
	VII	The evil effects of murmuring	153
	VIII	Discontent is a foolish sin	157
	IX	It provokes the wrath of God	161
	X	There is a curse on it	165
	XI	There is much of the spirit of Satan in it	166
	XII	It brings an absolute necessity of disquiet	167
	XIII	God may withdraw his protection	167
10		Aggravations of the Sin of Murmuring	170
	I	The greater the mercies the greater the sin of murmuring	170
	II	When we murmur for small things	176
	III	When men of gifts and abilities murmur	178
	IV	The freeness of God's mercy	178
	V	When we have the things for the want of which we were discontented	178
	VI	When men are raised from a low position	179
	VII	When men have been great sinners	180
	VIII	When men are of little use in the world	180
	IX	When God is about to humble us	181
	X	When God's hand is apparent in an Affliction	182
	XI	When God has afflicted us for a long time	183
11		The Excuses of a Discontented Heart	185
	I	‘It is a sense of my condition'	185
	II	‘I am troubled for my sin'	186
	III	‘God withdraws himself from me'	188
	IV	‘It is men's bad treatment that troubles me'	190
	V	‘I never expected this affliction'	191
	VI	‘My affliction is so great'	192
	VII	‘My affliction is greater than others'	193
	VIII	‘If the affliction were any other, I could be content'	194
	IX	‘My afflictions make me unserviceable to God'	195
	X	‘My condition is unsettled'	199
	XI	‘I have been in a better condition'	202
	XII	‘I am crossed after taking great pains'	204
	XIII	‘I do not break out in discontent'	205
12		How to Attain Contentment	207
		I Considerations to content the heart in any afflicted condition	207
	1	The greatness of the mercies we have	207
	2	God is beforehand with us with his mercies	208
	3	The abundance of mercies God bestows	209
	4	All creatures are in a vicissitude	209
	5	The creatures suffer for us	210
	6	We have but little time in the world	211
	7	This has been the condition of our betters	211
	8	We were content with the world without grace, and should be now with grace without the world	213
	9	We did not give God the glory when we had our desires	213
	10	The experience of God doing us good in afflictions	213
13		How to Attain Contentment-concluded	216
		II Directions for attaining contentment	216
	1	There must be grace to make the soul steady	216
	2	Do not grasp too much of the world	216
	3	Have a call to every business	217
	4	Walk by rule	217
	5	Exercise much faith	219
	6	Labour to be spiritually-minded	219
	7	Do not promise yourselves great things	220
	8	Get hearts mortified to the world	221
		II Directions for attaining contentment- continued
	9	Do not pore too much on afflictions	222
	10	Make a good interpretation of God's ways to you	223
	11	Do not regard the fancies of other men	225
	12	Do not be inordinately taken up with the comforts of the world	226

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