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 first excellency is this, Co•tenimont it doth deliver us from a bundance of temptations. Oh the temptations that men of discontented spirits are subject to, the devil loves to fish in troubled waters. That's our proverb of men and women, their disposition is to fish in troubled waters, they say it is good fishing in troubled waters, this is the maxim of the devil, he loves to fish in troubled waters, where he sees the spirits of men and women troubled and […], there the devil comes, saith he there's good fishing for me, when he sees men and women go discontented up and down and he can get them alone then he comes with his temptations, saith he will you suffer such a thing? take such a shifting indirect way, do you not see how poor you are, others are brave, you know not what you shall do against […] to provide so well and get broad for you and your […], and […] tempts them to unlawful courses; this is […] upon when ⟨p. 109⟩he brings men and women to give up their souls to him, it is upon discontent: That's the ground of all those that have been witches, and so have given up themselves to the Devil, the rise of it hath been their discontent, and therefore it is observable that those the Devil worketh upon to make them witches, usually they are old and melancholy people, and women especially, and those that are of the poorer sort that are discontent at home, their neighbours trouble them and vex them, and their spirits are weak and they cannot bear it, so upon that the Devil fastens his temptations and draws them to any thing, if they be poor, then he promises them money, if they have revengeful spirits, then he tells them that he will revenge them upon such and such persons, now this quiets and contents them. Oh! there's matter of temptation for the Devil where he meets with a discontented spirit. As Luther saith of God, God doth not dwell in Babylon, but in Salem, Babylon signifies confusion, and Salem signifies peace, now God doth not dwell in spirits that are in a confusion, but he dwells in peaceable and quiet spires, Oh if you would free your selves from temptations labour for Contentment: It is the peace of God that guards the heart from temptation.

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