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…

2 There is a great deal of strength of Grace in Contentment, It argues a great deal of strength in the body, the body to be able to endure hard weather and whatsoever falls out, and yet not to be much altered by it; so it argues strength of Grace to be content: You that complain of weakness of memory, of weakness of parts, you cannot do what others do in other things, but have you this gracious heart-contentment that hath been opened to you? I know that you have attained to strength of Grace in this, when it is so spiritual as hath been opened to you in the explication of this point. As it is with a mans brain, if a man be distempered in his body, and hath many obstructions in his body, hath an ill stomach, and his spleen ⟨p. 104⟩and liver obstructed, and yet for all this his brain is not distempered, it is an argument of a great strength of brain, & though there be many ill fumes that riseth from his corrupt stomach, yet still his brain is not distempered but he continues in the free exercise of the use of his reason and understanding; every one may understand that this man hath a very strong brain, that such things shall not distemper him, whereas other people that have a weak brain, if they do not digest but one meals meat, the fumes that do arise from their stomachs, doth distemper their brain & makes them unfit for every thing, whereas you shall have others that have strong heads, and strong brains, though their stomachs be ill that they do not digest meat, yet still they have the free use of their brain, this argues strength: So it is in a mans spirit, you shall have many that have weak spirits, and if they have any ill fumes, if accidents do befall them you shall presently have them out of temper, but you shall have other men that though things do fume up yet still they keep in a steady way, and have the use of reason and of their graces, and possess their Souls with patience. As I remember it's reported of the Eagle, it's not like other fouls, other fouls when they are hungry make an noise, but the Eagle is never heard to make an noise though it wants food, and it is from the magnitude of his spirit that it will not make such complaints as other fowls will do when they want food, it is because it is above hunger, and above thirst:

2 There is a great deal of strength of Grace in Contentment, It argues a great deal of strength in the body, the body to be able to endure hard weather and whatsoever falls out, and yet not to be much altered by it; so it argues strength of Grace to be content: You that complain of weaknesse of memory, of weaknesse of parts, you cannot do what others do in other things, but have you this gracious heart-contentment that hath been opened to you? I know that you have attained to strength of Grace in this, when it is so spirituall as hath been opened to you in the explication of this point. As it is with a mans braine, if a man be distempered in his body, and hath many obstructions in his body, hath an ill stomack, and his spleen