CONTENTMENT, PROSPERITY & GOD’S GLORY
By Jeremiah Burroughs
Reformation Heritage Books. 119 pages.
ISBN 978 1 601 782 328
Paul says in Philippians that he has learned how to be content whether in need or in plenty.
We generally think about trying to be content when we are struggling to make ends meet. That is the subject of a more wellknown book by the same Puritan writer. But Jeremiah Burroughs served a well-off congregation in London and this little treatise takes up the second challenge of how to live contentedly when we have plenty. Often wealth leads us away from contentedness in Christ. His topic is very relevant for Western Christians today and it is handled well. The middle-classes can be great complainers.
