A30598:457
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 XI.
PHILIPPIANS. 4.11. For I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
1NOW we are coming to the close of this point of Contentment that Jesus Christ doth teach those that are in his School: we have opened the point unto you, and showed you wherein the Art, and Skill, and Mystery of Christian Contentment lies; and divers things in the way of application rebuking the want of this and the last day I finished that point of showing the several Reasonings of a murmuring and discontented heart. I shall now (as being desirous to make an end) leave what was said, and proceed to what remains. There are only these two things for ⟨p. 187⟩the working of your hearts to this grace of Christian Contentment.
1NOW we are coming to the close of this point of Contentment that Jesus Christ doth teach those that are in his School: we have opened the point unto you, and shewed you wherein the Art, and Skill, and Mystery of Christian Contentment lies; and divers things in the way of application rebuking the want of this and the last day I finished that point of shewing the several Reasonings of a murmuring and discontented heart. I shall now (as being desirous to make an end) leave what was said, and proceed to what remains. There are only these two things for ⟨p. 187⟩the working of your hearts to this grace of Christian Contentment.