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…

It is because God is All in All to them immediately, now while thou livest in this world, thou mayest come to enjoy much of God, you may have much of heaven, while we live in this life we may come to enjoy much of the very life that there is in heaven, and what is that but the enjoyment of God to be All in All to us: There is one text in the Revelations that speaks of the glorious condition of the Church that is like to be even here in this world, Revel. 21. 22. And I saw no Temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it, and the City had no need of the Sun, neither of the Moon to shine in it, for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb it the light thereof: they had no need of the Sun or Moon, it speaks of such a glorious condition that ⟨p. 52⟩the Church is like to be in here in this world, this doth not speak of heaven, and that appears plainly that this is not spoken of heaven, but of a glorious estate that the Church shall be in here, in this world, for it follows presently in the 24. and 26. verse, And they (speaking of the Kings of the earth,) And the Kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour unto it, why, the Kings of the earth shall not bring their glory and honour into heaven, but this is such a time, when the Kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honour to the Church: And in the 26. vers• ▪ And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it, therefore it must •••ds be meant here in this world and nor in heaven, now if there be such a time here in this world, that God shall be All in All, that in comparison there shall be no such need of creatures as now▪ there is, then the saints should labour to live as near that life •e possibly they can that is, to make up All in God; Oh that you would but mind this Mystery, that it may be a reality to the hearts of the Saints in such times as these are, they would find this privilege that they get by grace, to be worth thousands of worlds, hence is that of Jacob that I mentioned in another •ase, it is remarkable, and comes in fully here▪ In Gen 33. that notable speech of Jacob when his brother Esau did meet him, ye find in one place that Esau he refused Jacobs present In the 8. verse, when Jacob gave his present to him he refused it, and ould Jacob that he had enough. What meanest th by all this drove which I meet?