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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.
Object. But you will say, what do you understand by Gods ways?
Object. But you will say, what do you understand by Gods waies?
Answ. By that I mean these three things. And when we come to know them we shall not wonder so much at the providence of God, but be quiet and contented with them.
1. The first thing is this, Gods ordinary course is that his people in this world should be in an afflicted condition, God hath revealed in his word & we may there find he hath set it down to be his ordinary way even from the beginning of the world to this day, but more especially in the times of the Gospel, that his people here should be in an afflicted condition. Now men that do not understand this, they stand and wonder to hear of the people of God that they are afflicted, and the enemies prosper in their way, for those that seek God in his way and seek for reformation, for them to be afflicted routed and spoiled and then enemies to prevail they wonder at it, but now one that is in the school of Christ, he is taught by Jesus Christ that God by his eternal counsels hath set this to be his course & way, to bring up his people in this world in an afflicted condition, and therefore saith the Apostle account it not strange concerning the fiery trial. 1 Pet. 4. 12. we are not therefore to be discontented with it seeing God hath set such a course and way, and we know such is the will of God that it should be so.
1. The first thing is this, Gods ordinary course is that his people in this world should be in an afflicted condition, God hath revealed in his word & we may there find he hath set it down to be his ordinary way even frō the begining of the world to this day, but more especially in the times of the Gospel, that his people here should be in an afflicted condition. Now men that do not understand this, they stand and wonder to hear of the people of God that they are afflicted, and the enemyes prosper in their way, for those that seeke God in his way and seeke for reformation, for them to be afflicted routed and spoiled and then enemyes to prevaile they wonder at it, but now one that is in the schoole of Christ, he is taught by Jesus Christ that God by his eternal counsels hath set this to be his course & way, to bring up his people in this world in an afflicted condition, and therfore saith the Apostle account it not strange concerning the firey tryal.