Description While hundreds of even Christian books today purport to help readers find Contentment and happiness, few-if any-survive the test of time or human experience. in 1624, but.
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About the Author Jeremiah Burroughs (1600-1646) was an English Congregationalist and a well-known Puritan preacher.
Read and meditate upon this great work It will set your heart on fire and elevate your soul.
That fact, in the end, is why this book remains so important and useful for followers of Christ.
He understood the big picture-that Christians who learn to be more content can better serve and glorify God. "Certainly our Contentment does not consist in getting the thing we desire, but in God\'s fashioning our spirits to our conditions," wrote Burroughs.
Contentment helps in the battle against temptation, prepares the Christian for service, and brings comfort no matter how bleak the current outlook might be.
The importance of learning to be content, for the Christian, would be difficult to overstate.
Because true Contentment comes from the inward state of the heart (rather than outer circumstances), a Christian can be content regardless of circumstances.
Burroughs takes readers through the ABC\'s of Christian living, pointing out that the root of disContentment is very often the failure to desire God\'s will in everything.
The depth of thought by Jeremiah Burroughs and his fellow Puritan writers is rarely approached by modern authors.
True contentment, he argued, is achieved by subtraction rather than addition; by surrender rather than struggle.
He preached the truth.
Like many other 16th and 17th century writers, Burroughs didn\'t mince words, cater to the fickle tastes of the reading public, or care about political correctness.
More than that, it offers a timeless and tested solution.
This great book, written almost 400 years ago by Jeremiah Burroughs, addresses the basic problems of human suffering and discontent.
Description While hundreds of even Christian books today purport to help readers find Contentment and happiness, few-if any-survive the test of time or human experience
