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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
THE RARE JEWEL OF CHRISTIAN Contentment. › Sermon 10 › Part 5: A Fifth Plea.
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A Fifth Plea.
Oh but that affliction that comes upon me is an affliction that I never looked for, I never thought to have met with such an affliction, and that is that I know not how to bear, that is that which makes my heart so disquiet because it was altogether unlooked for and unexpected.
Oh but that affliction that comes upon me is an affliction that I never lookt for, I never thought to have met with such an affliction, and that is that I know not how to bear, that is that which makes my heart so disquiet because it was altogether unlookt for and unexpected.
For the answer of this, first, it is thy weakness and folly that thou diddest not look for it and expect it, In Acts, 20.22, 23. see what Saint Paul saith concerning himself, And now behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there, save that the Holy-Ghost witnesseth in every City saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me. It's true saith he, I know not the particular affliction that may befall me, but this I know that the Spirit of God witnesseth that bonds and afflictions ⟨p. 172⟩shall abide me every where, I look for nothing else but bonds and afflictions wheresoever go; so a Christian should do, he should look for afflictions wheresoever he is, in all conditions he should look to meet with afflictions, and therefore if any affliction should befall him, though indeed he could not fore-see the particular evil, yet he should think, this is no more than I looked for in the general. Therefore no affliction should come unexpectedly to a Christian.