A30598:202
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.
The Sixth Lesson that Christ doth teach the soul that he brings into this School, is this, He doth instruct such a man or woman in the knowledge of their own hearts: you must learn this or you will never learn Contentment; you must learn to know your own hearts well, to be good students of your own hearts, you cannot all be scholars in the arts and sciences in the world, but you may all be students in your own hearts, you cannot read in the book (many of you,) but God expects that every day you should turn over a leaf in your own hearts; you will never come to get any skill in this Mystery, except you study the book of your own hearts: Mariners, they have their books that they study, those that will be good Navigators, and Scholars they have their books; those that study Logic, they have their books according to that; and those that would study Rhetoric and Philosophy have their books according to that; and those that study Divinity, they have their books whereby they come to be helped in the study of Divinity: but a Christian next to the book of God is to look into the book of his own heart, and to read over that, and this will help you to Contentment these three ways:
The Sixth Lesson that Christ doth teach the soul that hee brings into this School, is this, Hee doth instruct such a man or woman in the knowledge of their own hearts: you must learn this or you will never learn Contentment; you must learn to know your own hearts well, to be good studients of your own hearts, you cannot al be scholers in the arts and sciences in the world, but you may all be students in your own hearts, you cannot reade in the book (many of you,) but God expects that every day you should turn over a leaf in your own hearts; you will never come to get any skil in this Mysterie, except you study the book of your own hearts: Marriners, they have their books that they study, those that will be good Navigaters, and Scholers they have their books; those that study Logick, they have their books according to that; and those that would study Rhetorick and Philosophy have their books according to that; and those that study Divinity, they have their books whereby they come to be helped in the study of Divinity: but a Christian next to the book of God is to look into the book of his own heart, and to reade over that, and this will help you to Contentment these three waies: