Jeremiah Burroughs

Jeremiah BurroughsJeremiah Burroughs (1600-1646) was an English Congregationalist and a well-known Puritan preacher.

Jeremiah Burroughs Quotes

Lord, through your mercy, I want to purpose in my heart not to meddle with anything that appears to be unrighteous, or have anything to do with it!

—Jeremiah Burroughs

Many men & women who are troubled for their sin think God will be satisfied by their mourning. But mourning your heart out for 1,000 years will never satisfy the justice of God. Mourning will come to nothing, unless it leads

you to Jesus Christ for satisfaction of God’s justice.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

Many men & women who are troubled for their sin think God will be satisfied by their mourning. But mourning your heart out for 1,000 years will never satisfy the justice of God. Mourning will come to nothing, unless it leads

you to Jesus Christ for satisfaction of God’s justice.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

Sin is the greatest evil. Paul’s greatest sorrow was for sin (Rom. 7:24). Paul never cried ‘O wretched man that I am’ because he had suffered so much affiction, but only for his sin!

—Jeremiah Burroughs

Since I came to understand the gospel of Jesus Christ, the great mystery of godliness in His Son, and the dealings of the Father with the Son, the Lord knows now that I abhor sin in secret more than I abhor hell itself.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

There is so much sweetness in our peace with God that it must so quiet the spirit of that man in whom it is that whatsoever is without shall never be able to make any great disturbance in his spirit, so great and excellent is the sweetness of that peace.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

Since I came to understand the gospel of Jesus Christ, the great mystery of godliness in His Son, and the dealings of the Father with the Son, the Lord knows now that I abhor sin in secret more than I abhor hell itself.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

There is so much sweetness in our peace with God that it must so quiet the spirit of that man in whom it is that whatsoever is without shall never be able to make any great disturbance in his spirit, so great and excellent is the sweetness of that peace.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

If there is such a blessed peace between God and a true Christian, then he must be very peaceable in the world. He must be of a very peaceable disposition before men.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

When the creamy, choice thoughts of men and women are busied about earthly things, they mind earthly things in a sinful manner.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

This is the great difference between a wicked man and a godly man: one minds earthly things, and the other has his conversation in heaven.

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We should study Christ, and praise and bless God, and have our hearts enlarged for Jesus Christ.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

When it is time to choose officers in the church, there should be no consideration of a man’s estate, but of spiritual power.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

Articles or rules for doctrine or practice in matters of religion to be imposed upon men, should be as few as may be; there is very great danger in the unnecessary multiplying them. This in all ages has caused division and exceeding disturbances in the churches of Christ.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

Articles or rules for doctrine or practice in matters of religion to be imposed upon men, should be as few as may be; there is very great danger in the unnecessary multiplying them. This in all ages has caused division and exceeding disturbances in the churches of Christ.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

Here we see the infinite love of God, that He has been pleased to think of us poor creatures from everlasting, and make it His work to reconcile us to Himself.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

Let us take care that we do not cross the mind of the Spirit, by dwelling on the greatness of our sins, instead of the infiniteness of God’s grace.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

Grace enables men to see love in the very frown of God’s face, and so come to receive contentment.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

We should study Christ, and praise and bless God, and have our hearts enlarged for Jesus Christ. This is the duty of believers to whom God has revealed Christ as wonderful… You should so walk before men as to manifest to all the world that your Savior is a wonderful Savior.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

We should study Christ, and praise and bless God, and have our hearts enlarged for Jesus Christ. This is the duty of believers to whom God has revealed Christ as wonderful… You should so walk before men as to manifest to all the world that your Savior is a wonderful Savior.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

In God’s worship there must be nothing tendered up to God but what he hath commanded; whatsoever we meddle with in the Worship of God, it must be what we have a warrant for out of the Word of God.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

In God’s worship there must be nothing tendered up to God but what he hath commanded; whatsoever we meddle with in the Worship of God, it must be what we have a warrant for out of the Word of God.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

Whatsoever is in God, is God Himself, from this Name Jehovah. He is an Absolute Being, nothing but Himself. This is the difference between God and any Creature.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

God’s glory is more precious to him than men’s lives.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

Lord, if there be but one drop of mercy in me to show pity to others, is there not an infinite ocean of mercy in you?

—Jeremiah Burroughs

Christian contentment is opposed to sinful shifting and shirkings to get relief and help.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

God when he will bring life, brings it out of death, he brings joy out of sorrow, and he brings prosperity out of adversity.

—Jeremiah Burroughs

Grace teaches us how to make a mixture of gracious joy and gracious sorrow together.

—Jeremiah Burroughs