A30598:298
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.
1 How below the relation of a Christian? The relation in which thou standest. With what relation (you will say?)
First, The relation thou standest in to God: Dost not thou call God thy father? and dost not thou stand in relation to him as a child? what? thou murmur? In 2 Sam. 13.4. it's a speech of Jonadab to Amnon, Why art thou, being the Kings Son, lean from day to day, wilt thou not tell me? and so he told him; (but that was for a wicked cause) he perceived that his spirit was troubled, for otherwise he was of a fat and plump temper of body, but because of trouble of spirit he was even pined away why? what's the matter? thou that standest in this relation to the King and yet any thing should trouble thy heart, (that's his meaning) is there any thing that should disquiet thy heart, and yet standest in such a relation to the King, the King's Son? So I may say to a Christian, Art thou the King's Son, the Son, the Daughter of the King of Heaven, and yet so disquieted and troubled, and vexed at every little thing that falls out? as if a King's Son should cry out, he is undone for losing a babble, what an unworthy thing were this: So doest thou, thou criest out as if thou wert undone, and yet a Kings Son, thou that standest in such relation to God, as unto a father, thou doest dishonour thy father in this; as if so be either he had not wisdom, or not power, or not mercy enough to provide for thee.
First, The relation thou standest in to God: Do'st not thou call God thy father? and do'st not thou stand in relation to him as a child? what? thou murmer? In 2 Sam. 13.4. it's a speech of Jonadab to Amnon, Why art thou, being the Kings Son, lean from day to day, wilt thou not tell me? and so he told him; (but that was for a wicked cause) he perceived that his spirit was troubled, for otherwise he was of a fat and plump temper of body, but because of trouble of spirit he was even pin'd away why? what's the matter? thou that standest in this relation to the King and yet any thing should trouble thy heart, (that's his meaning) is there any thing that should disquiet thy heart, and yet standest in such a relation to the King, the King's Son? So I may say to a Christian, Art thou the King's Son, the Son, the Daughter of the King of Heaven, and yet so disquieted and troubled, and vext at every little thing that falls out? as if a King's Son should cry out, he is undone for losing a bable, what an unworthy thing were this: So doest thou, thou criest out as if thou wert undon, and yet a Kings Son, thou that standest in such relation to God, as unto a father, thou doest dishonour thy father in this; as if so be either he had not wisdom, or not power, or not mercy enough to provide for thee.