Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment - Burroughs - V - Chapter 3

Required reading 

Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment by Jeremiah Burroughs (available from Amazon or free on the internet, here for example) - Chapter 3.

My notes and thoughts
Chapter 3 continues the train of thought from Chapter 2 but is not as good.  However the point that contentment in our afflictions comes from meditating on Christ's afflictions is vital: 'Now I get contentment in the midst of scorns and jeers, by considering that Christ was scorned, and by acting faith upon what Christ suffered for me.'  Also: 'You are afraid of death-the way to get contentment is by exercising your faith on the death of Jesus Christ.'

In point XIII I do think that Burroughs is a little out of his depth when it comes to understanding covenantal theology and Psalm 91: 'The promises of outward deliverance that were made to the people of God in the time of the law, were to be understood then a great deal more literally, and fulfilled more literally, than in the times of the gospel when God makes it up otherwise with as much mercy.  Though God made a Covenant of grace and eternal life in Christ with them, yet I think there was another covenant too, which God speaks of as a distinct covenant for outward things, to deal with his people according to their ways, either in outward prosperity, or in outward afflictions, more so than now, in a more punctual, set way, than in the times of the gospel.'  What do others think?

Now it's your turn
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