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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.
Thus you see how a godly heart finds contentment in the Covenant, many of you speak of the Covenant of God, and of the Covenant of grace, but have you found it so effectual to your souls, have you sucked this sweetness from the Covenant and content to your hearts in your sad conditions? It's a special sign of the truth of grace in any soul, that when any affliction doth befall him, in a kind of natural way he doth presently ⟨p. 64⟩repair to the Covenant, just as a Child as soon as ever is is in danger, you shall not need to tell him and say when you are in danger you must go to your father or mother, why nature tells him so; so it is with a gracious heart, as soon as it is in any trouble or affliction there is a new nature that doth carry him to the Covenant presently, and there it finds ease and rest▪ and if you find that your hearts do thus work, presently to be running to the Covenant, it is an excellent sign of the truth of grace: that's for the general.
Thus you see how a godly heart finds contentment in the Covenant, many of you speak of the Covenant of God, and of the Covenant of grace, but have you found it so effectual to your souls, have you suckt this sweetnesse from the Covenant and content to your hearts in your sad conditions? It's a speciall sign of the truth of grace in any soul, that when any affliction doth befall him, in a kind of natural way he doth presently ⟨p. 64⟩repair to the Covenant, just as a Child as soon as ever is is in danger, you shall not need to tell him and say when you are in danger you must go to your father or mother, why nature tells him so; so it is with a gracious heart, as soon as it is in any trouble or affliction there is a new nature that doth cary him to the Covenant presently, and there it finds ease and rest▪ and if you find that your hearts do thus work, presently to be runing to the Covenant, it is an excellent sign of the truth of grace: that's for the general.