A30598:158
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.
That's the next then, A Christian heart hath not only Contentment in God, (and certainly, he that hath God, must have all, he that hath him that hath all, he hath all) But he is able to make up all his outward wants of creature-comforts from what he finds in himself: That may seem to be more strange: It's true, perhaps we may convince men though they do not feel by experience what it is to make up all in God, yet we may convince them that if they have him that hath all things, then they have all; for there is such a fullness in God, he being the infinite first-being of all things that may make up all their wants. ⟨p. 58⟩But here's another thing that's further, I say a godly man can make up whatsoever he wants without the creature, he can make it up in himself, in the 14. of the Prov. 14. A good man is satisfied in himself: as now, If he wants outward comforts, good cheer, feasting; a good conscience is a continual feast, he can make up the want of a feast by that peace he hath in his own conscience: if he wants melody abroad, he hath a bird within him that sings the most melodious songs that are in the world, and the most delightful. And then doth he want honour? he hath his own conscience witnessing for him, that is as a thousand witnesses, the Scripture saith in the 17. of Luke, v. 21. Neither shall they say, Lo here, or lo there, for behold the Kingdom of God is within you; a Christian then whatsoever he wants he can make it up, for he hath a Kingdom in himself, the Kingdom of God is within him. If one that is a King should meet with a great deal of trouble when he is abroad, yet he Contents himself with this, I have a Kingdom of mine own; now here it's said the Kingdom of God is within a man; truly, upon this Scripture of the Kingdom of God being within, those that are learned if they would but look into that Comment upon the Gospel that we have of a learned man, they shall find a very strange conceit that he hath about this very text, he confesses indeed it is unutterable, and so indeed it is;
That's the next then, A Christian heart hath not only Contentment in God, (and certainly, he that hath God, must have all, he that hath him that hath all, he hath all) But he is able to make up all his outward wants of creature-comforts from what he finds in himself: That may seem to be more strange: It's true, perhaps we may convince men though they doe not feel by experience what it is to make up all in God, yet we may convince them that if they have him that hath all things, then they have al; for there is such a fulness in God, he being the infinite first-being of all things that may make up all their wants.