Jeremiah Burroughs (1600 – 1646) was a moderate English Congregationalist, member of the Westminster Assembly, and Puritan preacher.
This classic contains the following chapters:
I. That Nobility of Birth, and All Honours and Delights Whatsoever, Are to Be Denied for Christ
II. How External Honour and Nobility Is to Be Denied
III. How Honours, Riches, and All Delights Whatsoever, Are to Be Denied for Christ
IV. We Must Deny All Worldly Pleasures and Preferments in the Very Prime of Our Time, When We Have Opportunity to Enjoy Them to the Full
V. It Is a Special Argument of Sincerity, That When the Profession of Religion Proves Costly to Us, Yet We Continue in It
VI. Comfort to Those Who in the Midst of Earthly Contentments Have Their Affections Set Upon Heaven
VII. Reproof of Those Who Greedily Pursue Sensual Delights
VIII. The Fulness of Creatures Comforts to Be Laid Down at Christ’S Feet
IX. Faith Is the Principle That Must Carry Through, and Make Honorable All a Christian’S Sufferings
X. Six More Particulars Wherein the Power of Faith Is Seen, in Taking the Heart Off From the World, and Carrying It Through All Afflictions
XI. Most Men Are Strangers to This Precious Faith; The Trial Thereof Discovered
XII. No Wonder, That Men of Great Parts (Wanting Faith) Do Fall Off From Christ, and Betray His Cause
XIII. The Difference Between the Heat of Men’S Own Resolutions, and the True Heat of the Heart by Faith, in Suffering for Christ
XIV. How to Know the Root or Principle From Whence All That We Do or Suffer Comes
XV. Comfort to Those Who Have True Faith
XVI. The Means to Maintain and Strengthen Our Faith
