A30598:464
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 11 › Consideration 3: A Third Consideration.
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A Third Consideration.
The consideration of the abundance of mercies that God bestows & we enjoy. It is a speech of Luther (saith he) the Sea of Gods mercies should swallow up all our particular afflictions, name any affliction that is upon thee, there's a Sea of mercy to swallow it up. If you pour a pail full of water on the flour of your house it makes a great show, but if you throw it into the Sea there is no appearance of it; so afflictions considered in themselves we think they are very great, but let them be considered with the Sea of Gods mercies we do enjoy, then they are not so much, they are nothing in comparison.
The consideration of the abundance of mercies that God bestows & we enjoy. It is a speech of Luther (saith he) the Sea of Gods mercies should swallow up all our particular afflictions, name any affliction that is upon thee, there's a Sea of mercy to swallow it up. If you powre a pail full of water on the flour of your house it makes a great shew, but if you throw it into the Sea there is no appearance of it; so afflictions considered in themselves we think they are very great, but let them be considered with the Sea of Gods mercies we do enjoy, then they are not so much, they are nothing in comparison.