A30598:151
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.
Object. But you will say, What good then is there in such a promise that God makes to his people?
First; That thou art under the protection of God more than others. But what comfort is this if it doth befall me?
First; That thou art under the protection of God more than others. But what comfort is this if it doth befal me?
Ans. Thou hast this comfort, that the evil of it shall be taken from thee, that if God will make use of this affliction for other ends, yet he will do it so as he will make it up to thee some other way. Perhaps you have given your children such a thing, but yet afterwards if you have use of that thing, you will come and say, I must have it, why father may the child say you gave it me? But saith the father I must have it, and I will make it up to you some other way: Now the child doth not think that the fathers love is ever a whit the less to him. So when there is any such promise as this is, that God by his promise gives thee his protection, and yet for all that such a thing befalls thee, it is but as if the father should say, I gave you that indeed, but let me have it and I will make it up to you some other way that shall be as good; saith God let me have your health and liberty, and life, and it shall be made up to you some other way.
Ans. Thou hast this comfort, that the evill of it shall be taken from thee, that if God will make use of this affliction for other ends, yet he will do it so as he will make it up to thee some other way. Perhaps you have given your children such a thing, but yet afterwards if you have use of that thing, you will come and say, I must have it, why father may the child say you gave it me? But saith the father I must have it, and I will make it up to you some other way: Now the child doth not think that the fathers love is ever a whit the less to him. So when there is any such promise as this is, that God by his promise gives thee his protection, and yet for all that such a thing befals thee, it is but as if the father should say, I gave you that indeed, but let me have it and I will make it up to you some other way that shall be as good; saith God let me have your health and liberty, and life, and it shall be made up to you some other way.