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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…
The rare jewel of Christian contentment. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to two of the greatest congregations in England; viz. Stepney and Cripplegate, London.The rare jevvel of Christian contentment. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to two of the greatest congregations in England; viz. Stepney and Criplegate, London.
London: printed for Peter Cole, 1648
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.
As now, Take these four or five particulars that a godly man finds Contentment in what he hath, though it be never so little.
1. Because in what he hath, he hath the love of God, he hath Gods love to him in what he hath: If a King should send a piece of meat from his own table, it is a great deal more comfortable to a Courtier then if he had twenty dishes at ordinary allowance, if the King send but any little thing and say, go and carry this to such a man as a token of my love, Oh how delightful is that unto him? are your husbands at Sea and send you a token of their love, it is more then forty times so much that you have in your houses already: Every good thing the people of God do enjoy, they enjoy it in Gods love; as a token of Gods love, and coming from Gods eternal love unto them, and this must needs be very sweet unto them.
1. Because in what he hath, he hath the love of God, he hath Gods love to him in what he hath: If a King should send a peice of meat from his own table, it is a great deal more comfortable to a Courtier then if he had twenty dishes at ordinary allowance, if the King send but any little thing and say, go and carry this to such a man as a token of my love, Oh how delightful is that unto him? are your husbands at Sea and send you a token of their love, it is more then forty times so much that you have in your houses already: Every good thing the people of God do injoy, they injoy it in Gods love; as a token of Gods love, and coming from Gods eternal love unto them, and this must needs be very sweet unto them.
2. What they have it is sanctified to them for good; Other men have what they enjoy in a way of common providence, but the saints in a special way: Others have what they have and there is all, they have meat, and drink, and houses, and clothes, and money and that's all. But a gracious heart finds contentment in this, I have it, and I have a sanctified use of it too; I find God going along with what I have to draw my heart nearer to him, and sanctify my heart to him: If I find my heart drawn