A30598:574
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.
4. Reas. Our reverence of God depends much upon it: and therefore in this 4. Psalm, Stand in awe and sin not, commune with your own heart, and be still: for us to behave our selves in such a manner as many people do, throwing out their hands, and wringing, and keeping such a stir as they do; this shows there is not in their hearts that reverence they owe to God; stand in awe; If your hearts were possessed with Gods fear, you would not keep such a stir as you do in times of great danger.
4. Reas. Our reverence of God depends much upon it: and therfore in this 4. Psalm, Stand in aw and sin not, commune with your own heart, and be still: for us to behave our selves in such a manner as many people do, throwing out their hands, and wringing, and keeping such a stir as they do; this shows there is not in their hearts that reverence they owe to God; stand in awe; If your hearts were possess'd with Gods fear, you would not keep such a stir as you do in times of great danger.
5. Reas. This makes people unfit to listen to any thing that is spoken to them; let any thing be spoken to them, that is of any use, they eannor hear it, nor make use of it; as we read of the people of Israel, Exod. 6.9. when Moses came to tell them of their deliverance, the text saith, He spake to the Children of Israel, but they hearkened not to him: why? for anguish of spirit: How many in trouble of conscience, and in other times of extremity, have their spirits in such anguish, that they never hearken ⟨p. 324⟩to any thing that is delivered to them; and therefore they come with the same objection over and over again, a hundred times in cases of conscience.
5. Reas. This makes people unfit to listen to any thing that is spoken to them; let any thing be spoken to them, that is of any use, they eannor hear it, nor make use of it; as we reade of the people of Israel,