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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.
PHILIPPIANS. 4.11. 1For I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
- 1Aug. 31: 1645.
I Shall only add one lesson more in the learning of Contentment, & then I shall come to the Fourth Head, The excellency of Contentment.
I Shall only adde one lesson more in the learning of Contentment, & then I shal come to the Fourth Head, The excellency of Contentment.
The Ninth and last lesson that Christ teaches those that he doth instruct in this Art of Contentment, It is the right knowledge of Gods providence, and therein are these Four things.
1 The universality of providence, that the Soul must be throughly instructed in to come to this Art, to understand the universality of providence, that is; how the providence of God goes through the whole world, extends it's self to every thing: Not only that God by his providence doth rule the world, and govern all things in general, but that it reaches to every particular, not only to Kingdoms, to order the great affairs of Kingdoms, but it reaches to every mans family, it reaches to every person in the family, it reaches to every condition, yea to every passage, to every thing that falls out concerning thee in every particular, not one hair falleth from thy head, not a Sparrow to the ground without the providence of God. There's nothing befalls thee good or evil, but there is a providence of the infinite eternal First-Being in that thing, and therein indeed is Gods infiniteness, that it reaches to the least things, to the least worm that is under thy feet: Then much more it reaches unto thee that art a rational creature, the providence of God is more special towards rational creatures than any others: The understanding in a spiritual