A30598:566
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.
3. Doct. In the time of these straights, it is our duty, to stand still and look for Gods salvation, to quiet our spirits, and look up to God.
3. Doct. In the time of these straights, it is our duty, to stand stil and look for Gods salvation, to quiet our spirits, and look up to God.
First, For the quieting of our spirits.
As they were to be delivered out of this bondage in that way; so they were to be delivered out of the Babylonish bondage in the same way: So you shall find it Isa. 30. see what God saith for that deliverance, he tells them plainly at the 15. vers. In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength, and you would not: In quietness and confidence, it's true, they were in a passionate way, and God tells them, that in quietness and in confidence is their strength, and they would not: So, come to many people that are in great extremities, to some women and others, (when they are wringing their hands, and hanging about their husbands necks) and tell them, your confidence must be in quietness, they will be ready to row you off. But they would not (saith God) So in Isa. 30.7. I cried concerning this, Their strength is, to sit still: My Brethren, this day in the Name of God, do I cry concerning all our straights, after we have used all the means we can, we are to sit still, and see the salvation of our God, to quiet our hearts with this believing stand still, and look up to God for our salvation. It was their great fault, they did not so in their deliverance out of their captivity, there is one remarkable place for that