A30598:475
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.
Consider the condition that others have been in that have bin our betters. We made some use of that before to show the evil of discontentment: But further for to work this upon our hearts, it is a mighty Argument to work upon our hearts a contentedness in any condition.
Consider the condition that others have been in that have bin our betters. We made some use of that before to shew the evil of discontentment: But further for to work this upon our hearts, it is a mighty Argument to work upon our hearts a contentedness in any condition.
Thou many times doest consider who are above thee, but consider who are under thee.
Jacob that was the heir both of Abraham and Isaac, (for the blessing was upon him) and the Promise ran along in him, yet was in a poor mean condition. Abraham that was his Grandfather was able to make a kind of Army of his own household, 300. to fight with a King, yet Jacob his Grand-child he goes over Jordan with a staff, and lives in a very poor and mean condition for a long time: and Moses that might have had all the treasures in Egypt, and as some Historians say of him Pharaohs Daughter adopted him for her son, because Pharaoh had no heir for the Crown, and so he was like to have come to the Crown, yet what a low condition did he live in when he went to live with Jethro his Father in law 400. years together, afterward when he returned to Egypt, he and his wife and children, and all that he had, and yet he had but one beast to carry him to Egypt, he went in a mean condition when he went from his Father in law to Egypt back again.
Jacob that was the heir both of Abraham and Isaac, (for the blessing was upon him) and the Promise ran along in him, yet was in a poor mean condition. Abraham that was his Grandfather was able to make a kind of Army of his own houshold, 300. to fight with a King, yet Jacob his Grand-child he goes over Jordan with a staffe, and lives in a very poor and mean condition for a long time: and Moses that might have had all the treasures in Egypt, and as some Historians say of him Pharoahs Daughter adopted him for her son, because Pharoah had no heir for the Crown, and so he was like to have come to the Crown, yet what a low condition did he live in when he went to live with Jethro his Father in law 400. yeers together, afterward when he returned to Egypt, he and his wife and children, and all that he had, and yet he had but one beast to carry him to Egypt, he went in a mean condition when he went from his Father in law to Egypt back again.