A30598:319
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.
Sixthly, It is below a Christian in this, Because it's below those helps that a Christian hath more than others have; they have the promises to help them that others have not; it's not so much to have a Nabal have his heart sink, because he hath nothing but the creature to uphold him, but it's much for a Christian that hath promises and ordinances to uphold his spirit which others have not.
Seventhly, It's below the expectation that God hath of Christians, for God expects not only that they should be patient in afflictions, but that they should rejoice and triumph in them: now ⟨p. 133⟩Christians, when God expects this from you, for you not so much as to have attained to contentedness under afflictions, Oh this is beneath the expectation of God from you.
Seventhly, It's below the expectation that God hath of Christians, for God expects not only that they should be patient in afflictions, but that they should rejoyce and triumph in them: now ⟨p. 133⟩Christians, when God expects this from you, for you not so much as to have attained to contentednesse under afflictions, Oh this is beneath the expectation of God from you.
Eighthly, It is below that that God hath had from other Christians. Others have not only bin contented with little crosses, but they have Triumphed under great afflictions, they have suffered the spoiling of their goods with joy, read but the latter part of the 11. of the Hebrews, and you shall find what great things God hath had from his people, and therefore not to be content with smaller crosses, this must needs be a great evil.