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The Rare Jewel Of Christian Contentment: Puritan Jeremiah Burroughs: Part 1

PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS AUDIOBOOK IN ORDER, PART 1 THROUGH 13 — 15 OR SO, JUST AS THOUGH YOU WERE READING THE BOOK: The kindle version (there are several versions) that I used, which is the same as the audiobook, is at the following link for 99 cents:

https://www.amazon.com/Rare-Jewel-Christian-Contentment-ebook/dp/B003UV8OD6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NIDRBJL580T7&keywords=jeremiah+burroughs+the+rare+jewel+of+christian+contentment&qid=1609191432&s=books&sprefix=jeremiah+burrough%2Caps%2C551&sr=1-1

The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment: Jeremiah Burroughs

Burroughs was an English Congregationalist and eminent Puritan divine, born in East Anglia in 1599 or 1600.

This book is about how to live the Christian life so that you will discover contentment. It talks mostly about dealing with afflictions from God, that each believer experiences, via God’s providence — to conform him to the image of Christ; to teach dependence upon Christ….

In 15 years of running the Christian race, I have thought about many of these things. But I was not sure I was thinking rightly; nor was I anywhere near putting them into a meaningful system via which I might assess my experience and responses.

Burroughs established an orderly system by which Christians might know how they are going amiss in their Christian walk.

I listened through the 3 hour 22 minute audiobook several times before I began to note it, and based on what I have learned thus far in my walk, from reading Jonathan Edwards, John Owen, John Bunyan…I believe that Burroughs’ writings  will be helpful for improving sanctification via a more specific prayer life, more specifically directed self-observation, journaling…(as Edwards recommended, and I posted recently, see Categories, Jonathan Edwards, A glimpse into His Spiritual Journey, for many helps in the same areas).

I believe that because, he specifically identifies what we are to look for, avoid, etc.

We all begin as spiritual infants, and depending upon what kinds of teachers we are under, we may not know many things we ought to know had we been abiding in God’s means of grace and listening to great teachers.

Burroughs certainly should be categorized as a great teacher.

The following is part one of this audiobook series, it is 14 minutes long; talk points are below this mp4:

 

 

 

Audio book, talk point HIGHLIGHTS, are just that; these points are meant to assist your listening, not to stand alone.

This audiobook was recorded from the YouTube site, Christian Sermons and Audio Books  [All square bracketed statements, emboldening, underscoring are mine.]

I am posting this audiobook in 14 to 20 minute segments with talk point notes by me. If you want to hear the entire 3 hour 22 minute audiobook, then click the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_VSoTP4Snc

After listening to the audiobook several times, it is very clear to me that the initial hour is the most difficult, as it lays the foundation for the other 2 1/3 hours.

For other similar posts in this blog, see Categories: Jonathan Edwards (posts about gleaning from his spiritual life); and Spiritual Disciplines.

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