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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.
4. A Fourth work of God in the converting of a sinner, is this, The casting of the soul upon Jesus Christ for all its good: I see Jesus Christ in the Gospel the Fountain of all good, and God out of free Grace tendering him to me for life, and for salvation, and now my soul casts its self, rolls it self upon the infinite Grace of God in Christ for all good; now hast thou done so? hath God converted thee, and drawn thee to his Son to cast thy soul upon him for all thy good, and yet thou discontented for the want of some little matter in a creature-comfort? art thou he that hath cast thy soul upon Jesus Christ for all good? as he saith in another case, Is this thy faith?
4. A Fourth work of God in the converting of a sinner, is this, The casting of the soul upon Jesus Christ for all its good: I see Jesus Christ in the Gospel the Fountain of all good, and God out of free Grace tendering him to me for life, and for salvation, and now my soul casts its self, rouls it self upon the infinit Grace of God in Christ for al good; now hast thou done so? hath God converted thee, and drawn thee to his Son to cast thy soul upon him for all thy good, and yet thou discontented for the want of some little matter in a creature-comfort? art thou he that hath cast thy soul upon Jesus Christ for all good? as he saith in another case, Is this thy faith?
5. The Soul is subdued to God; and then it comes to receive Jesus Christ as a King, to rule, to order and dispose of him how he pleases, and so the heart is subdued unto God. Now how opposite is a murmuring discontented heart to a heart subdued to Jesus Christ as a King, and receiving him as a Lord to rule and dispose of him as he pleases.
6. There is in the work of thy turning to God the giving up of thy self to God in an everlasting Covenant? as thou takest Christ the Head of the Covenant to be thine, so thou givest up thy self to Christ; In the work of Conversion there is the resignation of the Soul wholly to God in an everlasting Covenant to be his; hast thou ever surrendered up thy self to God in an everlasting Covenant? then certainly this thy fretting, murmuring