The Fountain of Life Opened

Inference 1.

¹Hath Christ not only redeemed you from wrath, but purchased such an eternal inheritance also by the overplus of his merit for you. Oh how well content should Believers then be with their lot of providence in this life, be it what it will! Content did I say, I speak too low, overcome, ravished, filled with praises and thanksgivings; how low, how poor, how afflicted soever for present they are. O let not such a thing as grumbling, repining, fretting at providence be found; or once named among the expectants of this Inheritance. Suppose you had taken a beggar from your door, and adopted him to be your Son; and made him Heir of a large inheritance; and after this he should contest and quarrel with you for a trifle? could you bear it? how to work the Spirit of a Saint into contentment with a Low condition here;² I have laid down several rules in another discourse, to which for present I refer the Reader.

¹Hath Christ not only redeemed you from wrath, but purchased such an eternal inheritance also by the overplus of his merit for you. Oh how well content should Believers then be with their lot of providence in this life, be it what it will! Content did I say, I speak too low, overcome, ravisht, filled with praises and thanksgivings; how low, how poor, how afflicted soever for present they are. O let not such a thing as grumbling, repining, freting at providence be found; or once named among the expectants of this Inheritance. Suppose you had taken a beggar from your door, and adopted him to be your Son; and made him Heir of a large inheritance; and after this he should contest and quarrel with you for a trifle? could you bear it? how to work the Spirit of a Saint into contentment with a Low condition here;