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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 12: A Twelfth Plea.
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A Twelfth Plea.
Another reasoning of a murmuring heart is this. Oh but after I have taken a great deal of pains for such a comfort, yet then I am crossed in it, after a great deal of labour and pains that I have taken now to be crossed, Oh this goes very hard.
Another reasoning of a murmuring heart is this. Oh but after I have taken a great deal of pains for such a comfort, yet then I am crost in it, after a great deal of labour and pains that I have taken now to be crost, Oh this goes very hard.
First I answer, The greater cross, the more obedience and submission.
First I answer, The greater crosse, the more obedience and submission.
Secondly, When thou didst take a great deal of pains, was it not with submission to God? Didst thou take pains with resolution, that thou must have such a thing when thou labourest for it? Then know that thou labourest not as a Christian, but if thou didst labour and take pains, was it not with resignation to God, Lord I am taking pains in the way of my calling, but with submission, I depend wholly upon thee for success and a blessing; And what was it that thou didst aim at in thy labour? was it not that thou mightest walk with God in the place that God had set thee? A Christian should do so in his outward calling, I am diligent in my outward calling, but it is, that I might obey God in it; it's true, I do it that I might provide for my family, but the chief thing that I aim at is, That I might yield obedience to God in the way that God hath set me: Now if God calls thee to another condition to obey him in though it be by suffering, thou wilt do it if thy heart be right.