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ISBN: 1601789661

ISBN13: 9781601789662

A Treatise on Earthly-Mindedness

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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 Reader

Chapter 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 heaven

Chapter Two: Earthly-Mindedness Discovered in Nine Particulars

Chapter 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 Heaven

Chapter Nine: Four Reasons Why the Saints Have Their Conversations in Heaven

Chapter Ten: Use 1: To reprove such as have their conversations in hell

Chapter 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 conversation

Chapter Fifteen: A heavenly conversation is growing

Chapter 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 Opened

Chapter Two: Doctrine: 'Tis the excellency of a Christian to walk with God

Chapter Three: How the Soul Is Brought to walk with God

Chapter Four: What Walking With God Is

Chapter Five: Twelve Distinct Excellencies of Walking With God

Chapter Six: Five Uses of Exhortation in Walking With God

Chapter Seven: Evidences of Our Walking With God

Chapter Eight: Twelve Rules of Direction for Walking With God

Chapter Nine: An Objection Concerning God's Hiding His Face Answered in Six Particulars


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A very great danger throughly exposed

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
A book such as this would scarcely be attempted in our day. Another title for the book could be 'The Nature and Enticements of Worldliness'. This book will probably not have a wide readership and that is sad. R.C.Sproul makes an observation in the the introduction that the content of this book is too alien to modern Christianity,and I think that assessment is right on target. Should a book such as this be overlooked or ignored in our day? Is its content Biblical and relevant enough to warrant a larger audience? Jeremiah Burroughs exposes many of the evils and dangers of being earthly minded. One of the evils brought out by the author is that earthly mindedness is the root of apostasy. He cites the example of Demas. Demas became an apostate,Why? The apostle Paul said that Demas forsook him because he loved this present world. Are there not any Christians in our day in danger of becoming apostates because they have an inordinate love for this world? If the answer is no to that question then this book would be irrelevant for today. You could probably put on a blindfold and point to almost any part of this treatise and you would find something that needs to be shouted from the rooftops in this generation. I did not use the blindfold method but I would like to give this example from p.2"This is the great difference between a wicked man and a godly man :one minds earthly things,and the other has its conversation in heaven. " Comments such as this are quite foreign to Christianity in this present age. What our generation needs is not only many that would be interested in reading and absorbing a book like this ,but that God would be pleased to raise up those who could write a book that has such great spiritual weight.

A rare topic; a rare treasure

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Sproul's rather unpromising foreword to this book begins, "my guess is that few people will ever pick up this book and read it." The sad thing is, he's right: "Its theme and content are too alien to modern Christianity to evoke much interest". When was the last time you ever saw a book written to address the problem of worldliness?Burroughs book is nonetheless a real gem. Out of print from 1649 until now, its message needs to be read again in an age where worldliness abounds in the professing church. There are actually three treatises in one book here: the first is "A Treatise of Earthly-mindedness", the second is "A heavenly Conversation", the third is "On walking with God". Each call the believer to focus not on earthly things but on heaven. Burroughs exposes the emptiness of worldly pleasures in favor of the heavenly vision that we all should have, and in good Puritan fashion, manages to lucidly address a hundred other essential topics in passing.The unbeliever will be left confused by this book. It will make little sense to him. Sadly, many believers will also take one look at the title and find its message too convicting for comfort. If you are ensnared by the materialism of the world, this will be good medicine for your soul. It is not an exaggeration to say that there is more solid content in one page of Burroughs than in an entire volume by many a contemporary Christian author.
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