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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.
soldiers that are in their ranks when they apprehend a danger, they must not go out of their way, because of the danger, it is as much as their lives are worth, to go out of the way, but they must stand, they must stand still, though there be never such danger, yet they must stand still in their ranks: that is the meaning of the word: I shall open more what the meaning of the holy Ghost is by and by, what kind of stand still, this should be; but thus for the word, it is such a stand still, as the soldiers have in their ranks, not to go out of their ranks for fear. The word is used in Scripture divers times for, standing fast, as in the 1 of Philippians, 27. That you stand fast in one spirit; now the word fast, is not in the Greek Text, but only the other word in the Greek Text; and so you ⟨p. 304⟩have the same word in the other Scriptures; in the 1. of the Corinthians, 16.13. Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, Stetite, it is only two words in the Greek, as it is in the English, stand fast; so that this stand, it is not only a standing, but a standing fast, stand still in your ranks, fast, be not in a hurry up and down, and be not in a confusion: If upon danger soldiers should presently be in a confusion in the Army, what would become of them? and so the truth is, in a City, in any place, where there is any danger, if people grow to a confusion, they are gone, they are lost, you must stand still in your ranks, stand still; There are several stand-stills, some very vile and naught, and others very good: there is first,
souldiers that are in their ranks when they apprehend a danger, they must not go out of their way, because of the danger, it is as much as their lives are worth, to go out of the way, but they must stand, they must stand stille, though there be never such danger, yet they must stand still in their ranks: that is the meaning of the word: I shall open more what the meaning of the holy Ghost is by and by, what kind of stand still, this should be; but thus for the word, it is such a stand still, as the souldiers have in their ranks, not to go out of their ranks for fear. The word is used in Scripture divers times for, standing fast, as in the 1 of Philiphians, 27. That you stand fast in one spirit; now the word fast, is not in the Greek Text, but only the other word in the Greek Text; and so you ⟨p. 304⟩have the same word in the other Scriptures; in the 1. of the Corinthians, 16.13. Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, Stetite, it is only two words in the Greek, as it is in the English, stand fast; so that this stand, it is not only a standing, but a standing fast, stand still in your ranks, fast, be not in a hurry up and down, and be not in a confusion: If upon danger souldiers should presently be in a confusion in the Army, what would become of them? and so the truth is, in a City, in any place, where there is any danger, if people grow to a confusion, they are gone, they are lost, you must stand still in your ranks, stand still; There are several stand-stils, some very vile and naught, and others very good: there is first,