The rare jewel of Christian contentment. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to…The rare jevvel of Christian contentment. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to…

Eighthly, He lives upon the dew of Gods blessing, it is the similitude of one Adrian Junius setting out a Contented man by a Grasshopper, leaping and skipping up and down, that lives upon the dew, and he hath this motto, I am Content with what I have, and hope for better. A grasshopper doth not live upon the grass as other things do, you cannot know what it seeds upon, other things though as little as grasshoppers, yet feed upon seeds or little flies, and such things, but the grasshopper, you know not what it feeds upon. So a Christian can get food that the world knows not ⟨p. 41⟩of, in a secret way is a Christian fed by the dew of the blessing of God, a poor man or woman that hath but a little which hath grace, lives a more contented life then his rich neighbour that hath a great deal coming in, we find it so ordinarily, so that though they have but a little, yet they have a secret blessing of God going in it, that they are not able to express to any other man; if you would come to them and say; How comes it that you live so comfortably as you do? They are not able to tell you what they have, but they find there is a sweetness in what they do enjoy, and they know this by experience that they never had such sweetness in former times, that though they had more plenty in former times then now they have, yet they know they had not such sweetness, but how this comes they cannot tell; and we may show some particulars, even in that godly men do enjoy, that makes their condition to be sweet.

Eightly, He lives upon the dew of Gods blessing, it is the similitude of one Adrian Junius setting out a Contented man by a Grashopper, leaping and skipping up and down, that lives upon the dew, and he hath this motto, I am Content with what I have, and hope for better. A grashopper doth not live upon the grass as other things doe, you cannot know what it seeds upon, other things though as little as grashoppers, yet feed upon seeds or little flies, and suchthings, but the grashopper, you know not what it feeds upon. So a Christian can get food that the world knows not ⟨p. 41⟩of, in a secret way is a Christian fed by the dew of the blessing of God, a poor man or woman that hath but a little which hath grace, lives a more contented life then his rich neighbour that hath agreat deal coming in, we find it so ordinarily, so that though they have but a little, yet they have a secret blessing of God going in it, that they are not able to expresse to any other man; if you would come to them and say; How comes it that you live so comfortably as you doe? They are not able to tell you what they have, but they find there is a sweetnesse in what they do injoy, and they know this by experience that they never had such sweetnesse in former times, that though they had more plenty in former times then now they have, yet they know they had not such sweetnesse, but how this comes they cannot tell; and we may shew some particulars, even in that godly men do injoy, that makes their condition to be sweet.