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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 13: A Thirteenth Plea.
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A Thirteenth Plea.
There's one Plea more that may be named, and that is this, saith some, Though I confess my affliction is somewhat hard, and I feel some trouble within me, yet I thank God I break not out in discontented ways to the dishonour of God, I keep in although I have much ado with my own heart.
There's one Plea more that may be nam'd, and that is this, saith some, Though I confess my affliction is somwhat hard, and I feel some trouble within me, yet I thank God I break not out in discontented waies to the dishonour of God, I keep in although I have much ado with my own heart.
Oh! do not satisfy your selves with that, for the distempers of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God. My soul be silent to God: That we spake of in the beginning ⟨p. 186⟩of the opening of this Scripture, it is not enough for thy tongue to be silent; but thy soul must be silent, there may be a sullen discontentedness of heart as well as a discontentedness manifested in words: And if thou doest not mortify that inward sullenness, if thou beest afflicted a little more it will break forth at last.
Oh! do not satisfie your selves with that, for the distempers of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God. My soul be silent to God: That we spake of in the begining