Category Archives: Jeremiah Burroughs
“Your mercies are more than your afflictions” by Jeremiah Burroughs
“Let your afflictions be what they will, there is not one of you, but has more mercies than afflictions. Objection. You will say, ‘Yes, but you do not know what our afflictions are such as you do not conceive of, … Continue reading
“The root of apostasy” by Jeremiah Burroughs
“Earthly-mindedness is the root of apostasy.” -–Jeremiah Burroughs, A Treatise Concerning Earthly-Mindedness: Showing the Great Sin of Thinking as the World Thinks Rather Than Thinking God’s Thoughts After Him, Ed. Don Kistler. (Orlando, FL: Soli Deo Gloria, 1649/2006), 43.
Filed under Apostasy, Christian Theology, Jeremiah Burroughs, Puritanical, Quotable Quotes, Sin, Worldliness
“The infinite ocean of fatherly love” by Jeremiah Burroughs
“All the love that ever was in any parents towards their children, is but as one drop of the infinite ocean of fatherly love that there is in God unto His people.” –Jeremiah Burroughs, The Saints’ Happiness, Delivered in Divers … Continue reading
“A base dunghill-raker” by Jeremiah Burroughs
“The evil of idolatry is in this: you depart from God… God is slighted and condemned when you choose to make earth your god rather than the infinite First Being of all things. A man might despise his wife, an … Continue reading
