A30598:133
The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
The rare jewel of Christian contentment wherein is showed, I. What contentment is, II. The holy art or mystery of it, III. Several lessons that Christ teacheth, to work the heart to contentment, IV. The excellencies of it, V. The evils of murmuring, VII. The aggravations of the sin of murmuring / by Jeremiah Burroughs.The rare jewel of Christian contentment wherein is shewed, I. What contentment is, II. The holy art or mystery of it, III. Several lessons that Christ teacheth, to work the heart to contentment, IV. The excellencies of it, V. The evils of murmuring, VII. The aggravations of the sin of murmuring / by Jeremiah Burroughs.
London: printed for Peter Cole, 1649
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
sometimes one that is very godly and gracious, you shall have them lie under grievous pains and extremities very cheerfully, and you wonder at it, this is the way that he gets it, he gets it by acting his faith upon what pains Jesus Christ did suffer, thou art afraid of death; the way to get Contentment, it is by exercising thy faith upon the death of Jesus Christ; yea, it may be thou hast inward troubles in thy soul, and God withdraws himself from thee, but still thy faith is to be exercised upon the ⟨p. 47⟩sufferings that Jesus Christ endured in his soul, he poured forth his soul before God, then when he sweat drops of water and blood, he was in an Agony in his very Spirit, and he found even God himself in a way to forsake him; now the acting thy faith upon Jesus Christ thus, brings Contentment, and is not this a mystery to carnal hearts? a gracious heart finds Contentment in a way of a mystery: no marvel though Saint Paul saith, I am instructed in a Mystery, to be contented in whatsoever condition I am in.
sometimes one that is very godly and gracious, you shall have them lie under grievous pains and extremities very cheerfully, and you wonder at it, this is the way that he gets it, he gets it by acting his faith upon what pains Jesus Christ did suffer, thou art afraid of death; the way to get Contentment, it is by exercising thy faith upon the death of Jesus Christ; yea, it may be thou hast inward troubles in thy soule, and God withdraws himselfe from thee, but still thy faith is to be exercised upon the ⟨p. 47⟩sufferings that Jesus Christ indured in his soul, he poured forth his soul before God, then when he sweat drops of water and blood, he was in an Agony in his very Spirit, and he found even God himself in a way to forsake him; now the acting thy faith upon Jesus Christ thus, brings Contentment, and is not this a mysterie to carnal hearts? a gracious heart finds Contentment in a way of a mystery: no marvel though Saint Paul saith, I am instructed in a Mystery, to be contented in whatsoever condition I am in.