True contentment is more like natural heat than warming your pants by a fire

True Christian contentment is an inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit. Burroughs expounds upon what he means by “frame of spirit”. Firstly, he means that it is a grace that spreads throughout the whole body. It begins in the judgment… Continue Reading

What quietness of heart is, and is not, opposed to

Simply saying that a contented soul is “quiet of the heart” might cause confusion. Some may actually attain this but because of confusion may think they do not. Others, perhaps by their naturally quiet disposition, may think this is their… Continue Reading

The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment Chap. 1

Can you say with the Apostle Paul, “I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content’? It is the hope of Jeremiah Burroughs that through expositing this text, that we may, along with Paul, learn the mystery… Continue Reading