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…

truly, upon this Scripture of the Kingdom of God being within, those that are learned if they would but look into that Comment upon the Gospel that we have of a learned man, they shall find a very strange conceit that he hath about this very text, he confesses indeed it is unutterable, and so indeed it is, the Kingdom of God is within you, he makes it that there is such a presence of God and Christ within the soul of a man, that when the body dies, he saith, that the soul goes into God and Christ that is within him, the souls going into God and Christ, and enjoying of that Communion with God and Christ that is within its self, that's Heaven to it (saith he) he confesses he is not able to express himself, nor others cannot understand fully what he intends; but certainly for the present before death, there's a Kingdom of God within the soul, such a manifestation of God in the soul that is enough to Content the heart of any godly man in the world, the Kingdom that he hath now within him, he shall not stay till afterwards, till he goes to Heaven, but certainly there is a Heaven in the Soul of a godly man, he hath Heaven already; many times when you go to comfort your friends in their afflictions, you will say ⟨p. 59⟩Heaven will pay for all; nay, you may certainly find Heaven pays for all already▪ there is a Heaven within the Souls of the Saints, that's a certain truth, no soul shall ever come to heaven, but that Soul that hath Heaven come to it first. When you die you hope you shall go to Heaven: But if you shall go to Heaven when you die, Heaven will come to you before you die. Now this is a great Mystery to have the Kingdom of Heaven in the Soul, no man can know this but that Soul that hath it, that Heaven which is within the Soul for the present (I say) it is like the white stone and the new name, that none but those that have it can understand it: It's a miserable condition my brethren to depend upon creatures altogether for our Contentment, you know that rich men account it a great happiness, if they need not go to buy things by the penny as others do, they have all things for pleasure or profit upon their own ground, and all their inheritance lies entire together, they have no body comes within them, but they have all within themselves, there lies their happiness:

truly, upon this Scripture of the Kingdom of God being within, those that are learned if they would but look into that Coment upon the Gospel that we have of a learned man, they shall find a very strange conceit that he hath about this very text, he confesses indeed it is unutterable, and so indeed it is, the Kingdom of God is within you, he makes it that there is such a presence of God and Christ within the soul of a man, that when the body dies, he saith, that the soul goes into God and Christ that is within him, the souls going into God and Christ, and enjoying of that Communion with God and Christ that is within its selfe, that's Heaven to it (saith he) he confesses he is not able to expresse himselfe, nor others cannot understand fully what he intends; but certainly for the present before death, there's a Kingdom of God within the soul, such a manifestation of God in the soul that is enough to Content the heart of any godly man in the world, the Kingdom that he hath now within him, he shall not stay till afterwards, till he goes to Heaven, but certainly there is a Heaven in the Soul of a godly man, he hath Heaven already; many times when you goe to comfort your friends in their afflictions, you will say