A30598:549
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.
O they could be content (many of them) to have them rid out of the Land, and if God did not prevent (whereas the persecution by Bishops is now at an end) who knows (except God humble their hearts more) whether many of Gods dear servants, that do but differ in some point of judgement, might not meet with a great deal of sufferings, even from those that are godly, and that is the worst suffering, better a thousand times suffer from wicked men, it is not so hard to the spirits of godly men to suffer from never so many Bishops, and wicked men, as to suffer from one godly man: ⟨p. 315⟩Oh! there wants that charity and tenderness of spirit one towards another that should be; we are not yet humbled and brought upon our knees, and therefore it is just with God to lay us upon our backs a while, or that we should even be with our faces upon the ground, & confounded in our own thoughts before that great Salvation comes that God intendeth for us. That's the first reason.
O they could be content (many of them) to have them rid out of the Land, and if God did not prevent (whereas the persecution by Bishops is now at an end) who knows (except God humble their hearts more) whether many of Gods dear servants, that do but differ in some point of judgement, might not meet with a great deale of sufferings, even from those that are godly, and that is the worst suffering, better a thousand times suffer from wicked men, it is not so hard to the spirits of godly men to suffer from never so many Bishops, and wicked men, as to suffer from one godly man: ⟨p. 315⟩Oh! there wants that charity and tenderness of spirit one towards another that should be; we are not yet humbled and brought upon our knees, and therefore it is just with God to lay us upon our backs a while, or that we should even be with our faces upon the ground, & confounded in our own thoughts before that great Salvation comes that God intendeth for us. That's the first reason.