A30598:526
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.
As Conjurers by their magic arts will have their spells, spirits that shall stop men in such a place, they shall not go out of such an orchard, or such a yard where they come in: So the Egyptians had there by their magical arts, they got (as it were) a Spell, a Baal-zephon, a god to stop people in that place where they would have them stopped: that is the meaning of this name of the Idol Baal-zephon. So that you see what a strait Israel was in upon their ⟨p. 301⟩going out of Egypt, they were got before the Sea, the Egyptians had all their strength behind, in a hole of rocks, and a tower, and their god to stop them altogether, so that they themselves made sure of them, and said that they were entangled in the land of the wilderness; Being in those great straits their hearts began to fail them, they began to be extremely troubled, and in a most grievous distemper of spirit they were coming, and chiding with Moses, and said to Moses in the 11. vers. Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us to die in the wilderness, wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt? We had rather we had continued in Egypt still, What! Brought to these straits! these extremities! such a perplexity as we are now in? would to God we had bin in Egypt: this was the baseness of their spirits, they would rather be under vile bondage, than endure any hazard, then be put to any straits and difficulties: It is the baseness of the spirits of many at this day amongst us, because they see that those ways that have bin taken by the Parliament brings some troublesome difficulties, some straits, they cry out of the times, I would to God we were, as we were before, we were well enough before, we were quiet enough before, we never knew what such stirs as these meant before, now we are brought into these perplexities, I, this they have brought us into; & thus they are ready to murmur & repine. Oh unthankful unworthy generation! men, women of vile spirits that shall do so. It was a speech of Cyrus, speaking unto his soldiers, The Historian hath this expression of him. It is the part of a true valiant man, either to live honourably, or die honourably, one of them;
As Conjurers by their magick arts will have their spels, spirits that shall stop men in such a place, they shall not go out of such an orchyard, or such a yard where they come in: So the Egyptians had there by their magical arts, they got (as it were) a Spel, a Baal-zephon, a god to stop people in that place where they would have them stopped: that is the meaning of this name of the Idol Baal-zephon. So that you see what a strait Israel was in upon their