A30598:350
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.
You shall find in Scripture concerning the people of Israel, how strangely they fell to their murmuring again and again, do but observe three texts of Scripture, for that, the ⟨p. 149⟩first in the 15. of Exod. at the beginning, there you shall have Moses and the Congregation singing to God and blessing God for his mercy, Then sang Moses and the Children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously, the Horse and his Rider hath he thrown into the Sea. And then, The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation, he is my God and I will prepare him an habitation, my Fathers God and I will exalt him; and so he goes on, and who is like unto thee O Lord amongst the gods, who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? Thus their hearts triumphed in God, but mark before the Chapter is ended in the 23. verse, When they came to Marah (in the same Chapter) they could not drink of the waters of Marah for they were bitter, therefore the name of it was called Marah, and the people murmured against Moses. After so great a mercy as this was, what unthankfulness was there here in their murmuring! Then God gave them water, but in the very next Chapter they fell to their murmuring, (you read not that they were humbled for their former murmuring, and therefore they murmur again) Exod. 16.1. &c. All the Congregation of the Children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, &c. And the whole Congregation (in the second verse) of the Children of Israel murmured against Moses, and against Aaron in the wilderness, and the Children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had dyed by the hand of the Lord in the Land of Egypt, when we sate by the flesh-pots, and when we did eat bread to the full. Now they want flesh, they wanted water before, but now they want meat, they fell to murmuring again, they were not humbled for this murmuring against God, neither when God gave them flesh according to their desires, but they fell to murmuring again, they wanted somewhat else. In the very next Chapter, (they went not far) in the 17 of Exod. beginning. And all the Congregation of the Children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin and pitched in Rephadim, and there was no water for the people to drink:
You shall find in Scripture concerning the people of Israel, how strangely they fell to their murmuring again and again, do but observe three texts of Scripture, for that, the