The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment Ebenezer Porter Downcast Christians of the twenty-first

Downcast Christians of the twenty-first century can find help here as surely as did past generations

precisely because of the long gap between delivery and publication

as we learn from the first chapter of Romans

and we modern Christians have much to learn from our premodern forbears

The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment Ebenezer Porter Downcast Christians of the twenty-firstJeremiah Burroughs is worthily reckoned as belonging to the front rank of English puritan preachers. As such he played a prominent part in the Westminster Assembly of divines, but died prematurely before the Assemblys work was concluded. Burroughs writings, some published before and others after his death, were numerous, but The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment is one of the most valuable of them all. Its author was much concerned to promote (1)