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Contentment in every condition is a great art, a spiritual mystery. It is to be learned, and to be learned as a mystery.

- Jeremiah Burroughs

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Contentment (Jeremiah Burroughs)

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition. (Jeremiah Burroughs)

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Who Influences Me: The Puritans

Who Influences Me: The Puritans

On this latest issue of figures who influence my spiritual growth, I’d like to feature those men known as The Puritans.  They were a group of English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England from its Catholic practices.

I’ve stated before that some of my heroes are “dead men” of the Lord!  Many of them have influenced me in their writing;…

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“You may think you find peace in Christ when you have no outward troubles, but is Christ your peace when the Assyrian comes into the land, when the enemy comes?...Jesus Christ would be peace to the soul when the enemy comes into the city, and into your houses.”

-Jeremiah Burroughs

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"There is nothing that befalls you but there is a hand of God in it.... When God has ordered a thing for the present to be thus and thus, how do you know how many things depend upon this thing? God may have some work to do twenty years hence that depends on this passage of providence that falls out this day or this week.... Am I the soul to whom the Lord has revealed the infinite excellence of Jesus Christ, and yet shall I think such a little affliction to be so grievous to me?"

-Jeremiah Burroughs