A30598:554
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.
5. Rea. God will bring them into straits, because he might give occasion to the Adversary to vent his malice to the utmost, and to ripen his sin that it may be ripe to the full, before God comes to deliver us; that they may be gathered together to be a great sacrifice to the Lord, therefore Gods people are brought to such straights; that if they will blaspheme, they shall blaspheme to the full. In our times now, the more straights we are brought into, the greater are the blasphemies of the wicked, and if God should bring us into more straights, and give them the better over us, I believe there will be that horrible blasphemy in England, that never was in any place in the world, the heavens never did hear, nor the earth never did bear such blasphemies, and blasphemers, as there would be, if God should but deliver up his people in any degree to the hands of their enemies; we know not, but for the ripening of their sins, and that so they may come to be remarkable for Gods vengeance on them here in this world, God may give them power over his people, and bring his people yet into greater straights. And then the last reason is,
5. Rea. God will bring them into straits, because he might give occasion to the Adversary to vent his malice to the utmost, and to ripen his sin that it may be ripe to the full, before God comes to deliver us; that they may be gathered together to be a great sacrifice to the Lord, therefore Gods people are brought to such straights; that if they will blaspheme, they shal blaspheme to the full. In our times now, the more straights we are brought into, the greater are the blasphemies of the wicked, and if God should bring us into more straights, and give them the better over us, I beleeve there will be that horrible blasphemy in England, that never was in any place in the world, the heavens never did hear, nor the earth never did bear such blasphemies, and blasphemers, as there would be, if God should but deliver up his people in any degree to the hands of their enemies; we know not, but for the ripenning of their sins, and that so they may come to be remarkable for Gods vengance on them here in this world, God may give them power over his people, and bring his people yet into greater straights. And then the last reason is,