A30598:543
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.
The third thing in this stand still of faith is, The looking up for the Salvation of God, the expecting a good issue one way or other; I know not how Salvation will come, but that there will be Salvation one way or other, that my soul rests upon; I stand not still out of stoutness of spirit, or because I think I have means enough to resist, whether I have means or no, when I am put into the greatest extremity, yet I can stand still, and look for Salvation. What▪ stand still, and look for the Salvation of the Lord? what talk you of Salvation (might they say to Moses) when there is nothing but destruction before us? True, if you look before you, behind you, and without you, and within your selves there is nothing but destruction, yet look up to Heaven and there is salvation, stand still and see the Salvation of the Lord. I have done no more than the mere opening of the text, and what is contained ⟨p. 311⟩in it: There are these 4. Doctrinal Conclusions in the Text.
The third thing in this stand still of faith is, The looking up for the Salvation of God, the expecting a good issue one way or other; I know not how Salvation wil come, but that there will be Salvation one way or other, that my soul rests upon; I stand not still out of stoutness of spirit, or because I think I have means enough to resist, whether I have means or no, when I am put into the greatest extremitie, yet I can stand still, and look for Salvation. What▪ stand still, and look for the Salvation of the Lord? what talk you of Salvation (might they say to Moses) when there is nothing but distruction before us? True, if you look before you, behind you, and without you, and within your selves there is nothing but distruction, yet look up to Heaven and there is salvation, stand still and see the Salvation of the Lord. I have done no more than the meer openning of the text, and what is contayned ⟨p. 311⟩in it: There are these 4. Doctrinal Conclusions in the Text.