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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 SAINTS DUTY IN TIMES OF EXTREMITY.THE SAINTS DVTY IN TIMES OF EXTREMITY.
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.
WHAT the certainty of the cause of those fears that are upon the hearts of people is not yet apparent, but that there are many distracted fears in their hearts, that is apparent to the full; and therefore though I prepared for that ordinary course as formerly, yet for this time I desire that you would turn to that Scripture (that I might speak a word in season) in
WHAT the certainty of the cause of those fears that are upon the hearts of people is not yet apparant, but that there are many distracted fears in their hearts, that is apparant to the full; and therefore though I prepared for that ordinary course as formerly, yet for this time I desire that you would turn to that Scripture (that I might speak a word in season) in
EXODUS, 14. part of the 13. vers. Stand still, and see the Salvation of the Lord.
THE beginning of the verse is thus, And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord. In the former Chapter we have Pharaoh dismissing Israel out of Egypt: In this Chapter we have him pursuing Israel with a new-heated fury, against all common sense and reason, his malice and rage besotted him, because God intended to destroy him: though Gods hand appeared gloriously for his People before, yet ⟨p. 300⟩Pharaoh will not see the Majesty of the Lord, but he shall see it; he gathers all the strength that possibly he can, and seems too rash in his way, he overtakes, and overtakes them in a place of the greatest advantage that possibly could be; for the Text saith, that they were before Pi-hahiroth, in the first verse, between Migdol and the Sea, over against Baal-zephon, and that by Gods appointment too; they were there when Pharaoh comes to find them, there the Sea is before them, all the strength of Egypt is behind them, and they were at Pi-hahiroth: Carverna rupibus inclus, so turned by some, not the proper signification, for Pi is the mouth, and hahiroth that signifies framen; they were got into a hole, (as it were) into the mouth of a hole, that was compassed about with rocks one each side, that had high rocks about it, so the word imports: and not only so, but between Migdol over against Baal zephon, Migdol signifies a tower; so that in that place the Egyptians had a tower built likewise: besides the advantage of the rocks and of the hills, there was a tower built for their further strengthening, and there the people of Israel were, an unarmed people; yea, not only by the tower, but they were over against Baal-zephon. I remember in the last Exercise, I showed you what Baal was, and what several Baals there were that the Heathens worshipped for their gods, a general name it is, sometimes for any other Idol: This Baal-zephon it was a god that they worshipped upon this ground, they had an Idol set in that place, at the going out of Egypt, that was to watch those that were to go out, for so zephon comes of zuri speculatus est, the god was to watch, was to stand and watch any run-away-servant, or any people that did go out of Egypt without any leave, they trusting in this Baal, that he would stop them, and stay them, and he was set in that place for that very purpose; and thereupon his name was Baal-zephon: