Jeremiah Burroughs

Jeremiah Burroughs, one of the most faithful voices among the English Puritans, presents a masterful exposition of Deuteronomy 32:5, "They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation," unveiling the sharp contrast between the sins of the godly and the sins of the wicked. With deep reverence for Scripture and unwavering theological clarity, Burroughs reveals that while even God's children bear the stains of sin, their failings do not bear the same mark as those who remain in rebellion. Through careful biblical argument, he demonstrates how the sin of the believer differs in its nature, effect, and outcome from that of the ungodly. Burroughs lays out the distinct ways in which the godly react to sin. He shows that the true believer does not make provision for the flesh, nor seek to excuse his offenses, but is instead convicted, humbled, and driven to Christ. The wicked, by contrast, sin with ease, make light of their iniquity, and, in their hardness, seek to twist God's grace into a license to indulge their corruption. They do not flee to Christ but away from Him, remaining blind to their peril and untouched by His mercy. Through masterful handling of Scripture, Burroughs exposes the foolish arguments men use to quiet their guilty consciences-reasoning that all men sin, that some sins are too small to matter, or that because grace abounds, they need not be alarmed at their iniquities. With pastoral wisdom, he warns against such deceptions, calling the reader to self-examination and an earnest pursuit of holiness. This book is not merely a study of sin but a call to godly fear, to careful walking before the Lord, and to an unwavering love for Jesus Christ, who alone makes the soul spotless before God. With theological depth and pastoral care, The Spots of the Godly and of the Wicked serves as a mirror to the soul, a warning to the deceived, and an encouragement to the weary saint. It is a work that exalts the power of the Gospel, magnifies the grace of God, and presses every reader to cling to King Jesus alone, the only refuge for sinners.

In an era when kingdoms tottered and consciences were imprisoned by ecclesiastical and political tyranny, A faithful Puritan minister, and Westminster Divine, Jeremiah Burroughs (1599-1646) stood as a light of godly humility, doctrinal precision, and unwavering commitment to the peace and purity of Christ's church. In this remarkable exposition of Isaiah 66:10-11, Burroughs masterfully calls believers to "rejoice with Jerusalem"-to find their joy in the flourishing of Christ's church, even amid suffering and conflict. He declares that true reformation is not accomplished by the might of man but by the Spirit of God, who brings forth divine mercy and justice in His perfect time. Burroughs reminds us that spiritual renewal, like birth itself, often comes with labor pains-but also with the triumphant assurance that God's purposes will be accomplished. As a leading voice in the Westminster Assembly, Burroughs played a pivotal role in shaping the theological foundations of Reformed orthodoxy. Yet, his legacy is not only one of theological rigor but also of remarkable meekness-a refusal to let strife, bitterness, or factionalism overshadow the Gospel of peace. In these pages, his exhortations ring with clarity: the church must cling to the purity of God's Word, reject worldly innovations, and trust in the sovereignty of God, who alone can "bring to the birth and give strength to bring forth." Whether confronting persecution or pleading for peace, Burroughs' message is as timely today as it was in the 17th century: God's people must unite in truth, standing firm under the banner of Christ's blood and rejoicing as they witness the unfolding of His promises. Readers will find not only theological depth but also the rich encouragement of one who trusted the Lord amid the fiercest storms and found refuge in the unshakable hope of His salvation.

Updated to Modern English"The Saint's Treasury" by Jeremiah Burroughs is a deeply insightful theological work that comprises a series of sermons. Each sermon addresses a distinct spiritual theme, articulating the profound nature of Christian faith and practice. The contents include explorations of the exceptional nature and holiness of God, the central role of Christ in the believer's life, the joy of experiencing heavenly things through faith, the contrast between the natural man's subjection to the law and the Christian's liberty through the Gospel, and reflections on preparing for Judgment. This book offers rich, scripturally grounded insights, making it an invaluable resource for deepening one's understanding of these key aspects of Christian doctrine and life.The book presents a theology deeply rooted in the Puritan tradition, emphasizing the centrality of Christ in the Christian faith. Burroughs' teachings focus on the necessity of understanding and acknowledging Jesus Christ as the mediator between God and humanity. He underscores the belief that no blessings or grace can be received from God except through Christ, a cornerstone of Puritan theology. This perspective is particularly evident in his emphasis on the mediation of Christ as essential for salvation and the reception of divine mercy.

What does it mean to live contentedly before God? In The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, beloved English Puritan pastor Jeremiah Burroughs presents a biblical framework for answering this enduring question. First published in 1648, Burroughs' practical theology of contentment serves up timeless wisdom for Christians wrestling with discontentment, covetousness, anxiety and envy.Structured across nearly a dozen sermons, Burroughs mines Scripture to excavate the true nature of contentment. He demonstrates that it transcends earthly fortunes and material possessions alone. Rather, the "self-sufficiency" furnished by communion with Christ Himself becomes the fountainhead that quenches thirsts no tangible thing can satisfy. Burroughs uncovers domino effects triggered when the soul anchors itself steadfastly in God rather than chasing elusive worldly substitutes.With intricate reasoning influenced by his theological mentor William Ames, Burroughs provides correctives to misunderstandings that hinder contentment. He clarifies that divine contentedness does not breed idleness or excuse wholesome betterment of one's station in life. On the contrary, souls filled with God's presence shine His image most purely. They turn reliance on Christ alone into catalysts empowering diligence, wisdom and stewardship for blessing others despite lingering uncertainties externally.Across centuries, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment has won sustained appreciation from luminous thought leaders like Richard Baxter, John Owen, Charles Spurgeon and Martyn Lloyd-Jones. By returning adrift souls to first things in the ever-flowing fountain of life, Burroughs kindles embers of early Protestant vigor ready to warm postmodern hearts chilled by more recent winds of doctrine.

EL CONTENTAMIENTO EN LA VIDA CRISTIANA ES ALGO QUE SE APRENDE Jeremiah Burroughs combinaba armoniosamente en su persona lo que podr an considerarse cualidades incompatibles: un celo ferviente por la pureza de doctrina y culto, y un esp ritu pac fico, que anhelaba y trabajaba por la unidad cristiana. Uno de sus principales escritos, La joya rara del contentamiento cristiano se caracteriza por la sensatez, la claridad, la aptitud de ilustraci n y la calidez de la apelaci n al coraz n. Hay un arca a la que pueden entrar, donde ning n hombre en el mundo puede vivir tan c modo, alegre y contento como los santos de Dios.Burroughs insiste en su lecci n con todo el fervor y la contundencia de un verdadero y fiel ministro de Dios. "Lector, c mpralo, ponlo y ll valo all , y ser , como dice Salom n, 'vida a tu alma, y gracia a tu cuello'. No temer s cuando te acuestes; s , tu sue o te ser dulce, porque el Se or ser tu confianza." Michael Boland JEREMIAH BURROUGHS (1600-1646), es uno de los m s conocidos puritanos ingleses, curso estudios en la Universidad de Cambridge donde destaco por su erudici n y profunda piedad. Es autor de muchos libros entre los que se destacan Remedios preciosos contra las artima as del diablo, La joya rara del contentamiento cristiano, entre muchos otros.

The fear of God is a primary spiritual grace deposited in the redeemed and pardoned soul. Scripture is filled with directives in obedience before God based on godly fear because it is a principal grace; it is part of the beginning of grace. Why are not more Christian books taken up with the fear of the Lord? It is because at the outset, such seems to be very offensive to modern Christian sensibilities. And yet, "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding," (Prov. 9:10). Many Christians look to Christ like they look to a boyfriend or girlfriend, rather than as the holy God who deals with sin through infinite wrath on the cross. Christ directed his disciples to a holy fear of God (Matt. 10:28). Jesus is the loving Savior, but this is bound up in the astonishment and amazement and respect of God's being and character in relation to sin and salvation. He is to be feared. What is godly fear? Jeremiah Burroughs will answer this more than adequately. He uses his primary text in Isaiah 66:2, "But to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word." Knowledge of the word of God produces and cultivates the fear of God in Spirit-endowed believers. It produces a trembling and contrite Christian. As a result, he will show that Scripture informs the pardoned soul to understand God in the light of holy fear and trembling, in turn that becoming a tender heart to follow the word and will of God, as he demonstrates further from 2 Kings 22:14, "Because thine heart was tender...." Holy dread and tenderness of heart are inseparably linked together as Gospel-Fear.

In this classic work, Puritan Jeremiah Burroughs gives 14 sermons on the regulative principle, meticulously explaining the right manner of appraching and worshipping God."Jeremiah Burroughs, in his classic book Gospel Worship, said, "The reason why we worship God in a slight way is because we do not see God in His glory." Modern man hears about a God who isn't worth worshiping. Why should he worship a God who wants to do good, but can't pull it off because man just won't cooperate? Who then is sovereign? Man is " - Don Kistler"Jeremiah Burroughs' Gospel Worship has greatly influenced my understanding of biblical worship. It is one of the most important books I have ever read."-R.C. Sproul"This treatise on Leviticus 10:1-3 is a call to propriety and sobriety in the worship of God. It deals with the believer's sanctification through "three great ordinances" (1) Hearing the Word, (2) Receiving the Lord's Supper, and (3) Prayer In a day that promotes man-made forms of worship, Gospel Worship is a call to biblical worship of the Triune God though the means that He has instituted. Burroughs shows how important worship is to God and teaches us how to "give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name" (Ps. 29:2). He makes plain that we do not need new forms of worship to be relevant, but to renew old forms of worship."-Joel Beeke

Jeremiah Burroughs is one of the most beloved of the seventeenth-century English Puritans. In this important work, Burroughs shows from Scripture the great sin of thinking as the world thinks rather than thinking God's thoughts after Him. Then, realizing that right conduct is the result of right thinking, Burroughs gives us more gems in the two bonus treatises offered here, A Heavenly Conversation and Walking with God. The Puritans rightly discerned the relationship between a person's doctrine and his or her walk before God and fellow man. May the Lord use these sermons to give us the same kind of discernment in our day. May we learn to think biblically, and then may we begin to act accordingly. Table of Contents: A Treatise of Earthly-Mindedness Foreword by R.C. Sproul To the ReaderChapter One: Doctrine: There is a great difference between a wicked man and a godly man. The one minds the earth; the other's conversation is in heavenChapter Two: Earthly-Mindedness Discovered in Nine ParticularsChapter Three: Six Evils of Earthly-Mindedness Chapter Four: Eight Additional Evils of Earthly-Mindedness Chapter Five: Five Things may be Wrought in an Earthly-Minded Man Chapter Six: Seven Reasons of Men's Earthly-Mindedness Chapter Seven: Eleven Considerations to Take the Hearts of Men off of Earthly-Mindedness Chapter Eight: Five Directions How to Get Our Hearts Free From Earthly-Mindedness A Heavenly Conversation Chapter One: How Far the Examples of Godly Men Should Prevail With Us Chapter Two: What's to be Done when Examples of Godly Men are Contrary?Chapter Three: Rebuke of Those that Follow the Example of the Wicked and Reject the Example of the Godly Chapter Four: Two Doctrines Observed From the Text Chapter Five: How the Saints are Citizens of Heaven Chapter Six: How the Saints Have Their Conversation in Heaven Chapter Seven: The Saints' Trading for Heaven Chapter Eight: Seven Evidences of Men's Having Their Conversation in HeavenChapter Nine: Four Reasons Why the Saints Have Their Conversations in Heaven Chapter Ten: Use 1: To reprove such as have their conversations in hellChapter Eleven: Use 2: To reprove hypocrites Chapter Twelve: Use 3: Let us not find fault with the strictness of God's ways Chapter Thirteen: Use 4: Let us not find fault with the strictness of God's ways Chapter Fourteen: A heavenly conversation is a convincing conversationChapter Fifteen: A heavenly conversation is growingChapter Sixteen: A heavenly conversation brings much glory to God Chapter Seventeen: A heavenly conversation brings much glory to the saints Chapter Eighteen: A heavenly conversation will make suffering easy Chapter Nineteen: A heavenly conversation brings much joy Chapter Twenty: A Heavenly Conversation Is Very Safe Chapter Twenty-One: A Heavenly Conversation Gives Abundant Entrance into Glory Chapter Twenty-Two: Seven Directions How to Get a Heavenly Conversation Walking with God Chapter One: The Text OpenedChapter Two: Doctrine: 'Tis the excellency of a Christian to walk with God Chapter Three: How the Soul Is Brought to walk with GodChapter Four: What Walking With God IsChapter Five: Twelve Distinct Excellencies of Walking With GodChapter Six: Five Uses of Exhortation in Walking With God Chapter Seven: Evidences of Our Walking With GodChapter Eight: Twelve Rules of Direction for Walking With God Chapter Nine: An Objection Concerning God's Hiding His Face Answered in Six Particulars

Burroughs' text in this work is Psalm 148:13, focusing on the phrase, "For his name alone is excellent." His main argument is to demonstrate God's glorious character, that the psalmist does not rest in simply praising God for his glory that appears in the creatures, but he rises higher to praise and bless God for what there is in himself above that which appears in any creature. Burroughs sets his point of view directly in line with the glorious nature of God himself, and the excellent name of God above all things. It is true that God manifests himself in heaven and earth as glorious, but, there is a further glory of God that is within himself, beyond all that is, or can be manifested in or to any creature. This is the substance of this ensuing work. Burroughs covers two main doctrines: that a gracious heart is not satisfied with praising God only for his works but rises higher to praise him for himself. And, God is a most excellent being above all things. In these two doctrines he lays out the biblical arguments that press Christians to give glory to God's inherent excellency. Certainly, God is to be praised for all his works, (for creation, providence and redemption in Jesus Christ), but God is to be praised especially for who he is in and of himself in his glorious nature.