A30598:394
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.
SERMON X.
PHILIPPIANS. 4.11. For I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
NOW there are many Pleas and reasonings yet remain, for there's a great deal of do with a discontented murmuring heart. And I remember I find that the same Hebrew word that signifies [to lodge, to abide] it signifies to murmur, they use one word for both, for murmuring is a distemper that doth lodge in men, where it gets in once it lodgeth abideth and continues, and therefore that we may unlodge it and get it out, we will labour to show what are the further reasonings of a discontented heart.
NOW there are many Pleas and reasonings yet remain, for there's a great deal of do with a discontented murmuring heart. And I remember I find that the same Hebrew word that signifies [to lodge, to abide] it signifies to murmur, they use one word for both, for murmuring is a distemper that doth lodge in men, where it gets in once it lodgeth abideth and continues, and therefore that we may unlodge it and get it out, we will labour to shew what are the further reasonings of a discontented heart.