Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1042946 in Books
• Published on: 1997-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 219 pages

Customer Reviews

A rare topic; a rare treasure
Sproul's rather unpromising foreword to this book begins, "my guess is that few people will ever pick up this book and read it." The sad thing is, he's right: "Its theme and content are too alien to modern Christianity to evoke much interest". When was the last time you ever saw a book written to address the problem of worldliness?

Burroughs book is nonetheless a real gem. Out of print from 1649 until now, its message needs to be read again in an age where worldliness abounds in the professing church. There are actually three treatises in one book here: the first is "A Treatise of Earthly-mindedness", the second is "A heavenly Conversation", the third is "On walking with God". Each call the believer to focus not on earthly things but on heaven. Burroughs exposes the emptiness of worldly pleasures in favor of the heavenly vision that we all should have, and in good Puritan fashion, manages to lucidly address a hundred other essential topics in passing.

The unbeliever will be left confused by this book. It will make little sense to him. Sadly, many believers will also take one look at the title and find its message too convicting for comfort. If you are ensnared by the materialism of the world, this will be good medicine for your soul.

It is not an exaggeration to say that there is more solid content in one page of Burroughs than in an entire volume by many a contemporary Christian author.