A30598:141
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.
Now in the 11. verse, there Jacob urges it still, (and saith Jacob) I beseech thee take it for I have enough: now in your books it is the same in English, I have enough (saith Esau:) and I have enough (saith Jacob:) but in the Hebrew, Jacobs word is different from Esau's, Jacobs word signifies, I have all things, and yet Jacob was poorer than Esau. Oh this should be a shame to us, that an Esau should say, I have enough; but now a Christian should say, I have not only enough, but I have all: how hath he all? because he hath God that is All. And it was an notable speech of one, He hath all things, that hath him that hath all things. Surely thou hast all things, because thou hast him for thy portion who hath all things: God hath ⟨p. 53⟩all things in himself, and thou hast God to be thine for thy portion, and in that thou hast all, and this is the Mystery of Contentment; It makes up all wants in God, this is that that the men of the world have little skill in.
Now in the 11. verse, there Jacob urges it still, (and saith Jacob) I beseech thee take it for I have enough: now in your books it is the same in English, I have enough (saith Esau:) and I have enough (saith Jacob:) but in the Hebrew, Jacobs word is different from Esau's, Jacobs word signifies, I have all things, and yet Jacob was poorer than Esau. Oh this should be a shame to us, that an Esau should say, I have enough; but now a Christian should say, I have not only enough, but I have all: how hath he all? because he hath God that is All. And it was an notable speech of one, He hath all things, that hath him that hath all things. Surely thou hast all things, because thou hast him for thy portion who hath al things: God hath ⟨p. 53⟩all things in himself, and thou hast God to be thine for thy portion, and in that thou hast all, and this is the Mystery of Contentment; It makes up all wants in God, this is that that the men of the world have little skill in.
Now I have divers other things yet to open in the Mystery of Contentment. I should show likewise that a godly man not only makes up all in God, but finds enough in himself to make up all, to make up all in himself, not from himself, but in himself, and that may seem to be stranger than the other: to make up all in God is somewhat, nay to make up all in himself, not from himself, but in himself, that is, a gracious heart hath so much of God within himself, that he hath enough there to make up all his wants that are without. In