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A Treatise on Earthly-Mindedness

by Jeremiah Burroughs

The Edition

Introduction by
Robert Charles (R. C.) Sproul

Publication

Publisher
Soli Deo Gloria
Print status
Out of stock

The Physical Book

Binding
Paperback
Total pages
271 pages
ISBN-13
9781601789662

Reference

Notes
Published posthumously in 1649, originally as the first of Two Treatises of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs, whose second treatise combined the material given here as A Heavenly Conversation and Walking with God. Foreword by R.C. Sproul.
Publisher page
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Contents

  • A Treatise of Earthly-Mindedness
    • To the Reader
    • 1. 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
    • 2. Earthly-Mindedness Discovered in Nine Particulars
    • 3. Six Evils of Earthly-Mindedness
    • 4. Eight Additional Evils of Earthly-Mindedness
    • 5. Five Things May Be Wrought in an Earthly-Minded Man
    • 6. Seven Reasons of Men's Earthly-Mindedness
    • 7. Eleven Considerations to Take the Hearts of Men off of Earthly-Mindedness
    • 8. Five Directions How to Get Our Hearts Free from Earthly-Mindedness
  • A Heavenly Conversation
    • 1. How Far the Examples of Godly Men Should Prevail with Us
    • 2. What's to Be Done when Examples of Godly Men Are Contrary?
    • 3. Rebuke of Those that Follow the Example of the Wicked and Reject the Example of the Godly
    • 4. Two Doctrines Observed from the Text
    • 5. How the Saints Are Citizens of Heaven
    • 6. How the Saints Have Their Conversation in Heaven
    • 7. The Saints' Trading for Heaven
    • 8. Seven Evidences of Men's Having Their Conversation in Heaven
    • 9. Four Reasons Why the Saints Have Their Conversations in Heaven
    • 10. Use 1: To Reprove Such as Have Their Conversations in Hell
    • 11. Use 2: To Reprove Hypocrites
    • 12. Use 3: Let Us Not Find Fault with the Strictness of God's Ways
    • 13. Use 4: Let Us Not Find Fault with the Strictness of God's Ways
    • 14. A Heavenly Conversation Is a Convincing Conversation
    • 15. A Heavenly Conversation Is Growing
    • 16. A Heavenly Conversation Brings Much Glory to God
    • 17. A Heavenly Conversation Brings Much Glory to the Saints
    • 18. A Heavenly Conversation Will Make Suffering Easy
    • 19. A Heavenly Conversation Brings Much Joy
    • 20. A Heavenly Conversation Is Very Safe
    • 21. A Heavenly Conversation Gives Abundant Entrance into Glory
    • 22. Seven Directions How to Get a Heavenly Conversation
  • Walking with God
    • 1. The Text Opened
    • 2. Doctrine: 'Tis the Excellency of a Christian to Walk with God
    • 3. How the Soul Is Brought to Walk with God
    • 4. What Walking with God Is
    • 5. Twelve Distinct Excellencies of Walking with God
    • 6. Five Uses of Exhortation in Walking with God
    • 7. Evidences of Our Walking with God
    • 8. Twelve Rules of Direction for Walking with God
    • 9. An Objection Concerning God's Hiding His Face Answered in Six Particulars