{"product_id":"1677-jeremiah-burroughs-christian-contentment-with-unpublished-american-puritan-mss-poem","title":"1677 JEREMIAH BURROUGHS. Christian Contentment with Unpublished American Puritan MSs Poem.","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003eA wonderful artifact of early American Puritanism, being both a superbly provenanced puritan standard work, and including a previously undocumented early American puritan devotional composition with significant eschatological content.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003eThe book itself, Jeremiah Burroughs's treatise on \"Christian Contentment,\" was one of the most influential texts in the transatlantic Puritan world. It served as a spiritual manual on maintaining inner peace and submission to divine will amidst intense worldly trial. It takes little imagination to envision its usefulness for early American Puritan settlers. For a first-generation or early second-generation [it is disputed] New England settler like Samuel Hayes of Norwalk, Connecticut [1641-1712], owning such a text helped structure daily spiritual and civic life in the wilderness of the Connecticut Colony, shaping the mindset of the people who built its early institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003eThe addition of Hayes’s handwritten, previously unpublished poem inside the volume makes this a significant primary artifact of early American Puritanism. Though not averse to verse as aesthetic, American Puritans saw poetry more directly functioning as an extension of or expression of prayer, as self-examination, as devotional response, and as a tool to help internalize doctrine. By physically transcribing his own verse onto the pages of Burroughs's work, Hayes engages in a deeply personal, active dialogue with the text, one worth scholarly exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003eThis artifact and original production offers a rare glimpse into the interior spiritual life of a prominent colonial citizen who, outside of his private devotion, served his community as a long-standing deputy to the General Assembly of Connecticut. The unpublished poem stands as a testament to the high literacy and theological sophistication of early American settlers, demonstrating how the demanding doctrines of the Puritan pulpit were seamlessly integrated into the private intellectual lives and creative expressions of ordinary colonial administrators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poem, in full, from the flyleaf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSamuel Haies his Book 1689 [Norwalk, Connecticut]\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDear family rejoyce continuously\u003cbr\u003ein this gospel Report\u003cbr\u003eYe fall of antichrist is nigh\u003cbr\u003ehis time is now But Short.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHis agents Rage \u0026amp; polisy\u003cbr\u003ehe dayly doth imploy\u003cbr\u003ehe musters up his armis great\u003cbr\u003egods Servants to distroy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe nations Rush yt they will dash\u003cbr\u003eThere motions now bespoke\u003cbr\u003egod's anger Smoks with dreadfull stroks\u003cbr\u003eThere powers he will Broke\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYe he will purg \u0026amp; fan his flood\u003cbr\u003ehis temple purify\u003cbr\u003eWhose hous is found on a Rok\u003cbr\u003eOr on ye Sands will try.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEach Church \u0026amp; ech professor he\u003cbr\u003ewill try ym every one\u003cbr\u003eWho haid there vessals stood with oyle\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; wedding garmants on\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTherefore ye Saints awok \u0026amp; pray\u003cbr\u003eto scape what is at hand\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; in ye last great Judgment day\u003cbr\u003eBefore which ye [will] Stand\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the reverse of the title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003esarah Hayes her book to be safly restored to her whan ever she doth ****\u003c\/em\u003e it\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo the Reader \u003c\/em\u003esigned in type by Thomas Goodwin, Sydrach Simpson, William Greenhil, Philip Nye, William Bridge, John Yates, and William Adderly. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBurroughs, Jeremiah. The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment. Wherein is Shewed: I. What Contentment Is.2. The Holy Art or Mystery of It. 3. Several Lessons that Christ Teacheth to work the Heart to Contentment. 4. The Excellencies of It. 5. The Evils of Murmuring. 6. The Aggravation of the Sin of Murmuring. London. Printed by S. Streater, for George Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill, 1677. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood + to very good in 20th century half leather with some minor rubbing, newer endpapers as well. Original flyleaf retained, gutter exposed between title and \"to the reader,\" and between the final two pages of text, presumably both pulled at the insertion of the endpapers. Textually a bit handled and thumbed as shown, but on the whole quite nicely preserved. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50909528555556,"sku":null,"price":1850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/06-25-2026SpecsFineBooks-3.jpg?v=1782425818","url":"https:\/\/specsfinebooks.com\/products\/1677-jeremiah-burroughs-christian-contentment-with-unpublished-american-puritan-mss-poem","provider":"Specs Fine Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}