Moses' Self-Denial

Jeremiah Burroughs (1600 – 1646) was a moderate English Congregationalist, member of the Westminster Assembly, and Puritan preacher. 


This classic contains the following chapters: 


I. That Nobility of Birth, and All Honours and Delights Whatsoever, Are to Be Denied for Christ 

II. How External Honour and Nobility Is to Be Denied 

III. How Honours, Riches, and All Delights Whatsoever, Are to Be Denied for Christ 

IV. We Must Deny All Worldly Pleasures and Preferments in the Very Prime of Our Time, When We Have Opportunity to Enjoy Them to the Full 

V. It Is a Special Argument of Sincerity, That When the Profession of Religion Proves Costly to Us, Yet We Continue in It 

VI. Comfort to Those Who in the Midst of Earthly Contentments Have Their Affections Set Upon Heaven 

VII. Reproof of Those Who Greedily Pursue Sensual Delights 

VIII. The Fulness of Creatures Comforts to Be Laid Down at Christ’S Feet 

IX. Faith Is the Principle That Must Carry Through, and Make Honorable All a Christian’S Sufferings 

X. Six More Particulars Wherein the Power of Faith Is Seen, in Taking the Heart Off From the World, and Carrying It Through All Afflictions 

XI. Most Men Are Strangers to This Precious Faith; The Trial Thereof Discovered 

XII. No Wonder, That Men of Great Parts (Wanting Faith) Do Fall Off From Christ, and Betray His Cause 

XIII. The Difference Between the Heat of Men’S Own Resolutions, and the True Heat of the Heart by Faith, in Suffering for Christ 

XIV. How to Know the Root or Principle From Whence All That We Do or Suffer Comes 

XV. Comfort to Those Who Have True Faith 

XVI. The Means to Maintain and Strengthen Our Faith