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. A Contented man whose estate is low, if God raises his estate he hath the love of God in it, and then its abundantly more sweet then if he had it and his heart not Contented: for if he had not the love of God in it, for it may be God grants to a discontented man his desire, but he cannot say it is from love; if a man hath quieted his spirit first, and then God grant him his desire, he may have more comfort in it, and more assurance that he hath the love of God in it.

3. This Contentment is a comfort to a mans spirit in this, that it doth keep in his comforts, and keep out what ever may damp his comforts, or put out the light of them. I may compare this Grace of Contentment to a Mariners Lantern, a Mariner when he is at Sea let him have never so much provision in his ship, yet if he be thousands of leagues from land, or in a rode that he shall not ⟨p. 111⟩meet with a ship in three or four months, if he hath never a Lantern in his ship, nor nothing whereby he can keep a candle light in a storm he will be in a sad condition, he would give a great deal to have a Lantern, or something that may serve in••ead of it. When a storm comes in the night, and he cannot have any light come above-board, but it is puffed out presently his condition is very sad, so many men can have the light of comfort when there is no storm, but let there come but any affliction, any storm upon them, their light is puffed out presently, and what shall they do now? when the heart is furnished with this Grace of Contentment, this Grace is as it were the Lantern, and it keeps comfort in the spirit of a man, light in the midest of a storm and tempest. When you have a Lantern in the midest of a storm you can carry a light every where up and down the ship to the top of the Mast if you will, and yet keep it light, so the comfort of a Christian when it is enlivened with the Grace of Contentment, it may be kept light whatever storms or tempests come, yet he can keep light in his soul, oh this helps thy comforts exceeding much.

3. This Contentment is a comfort to a mans spirit in this, that it doth keep in his comforts, and keep out what ever may damp his comforts, or put out the light of them. I may compare this Grace of Contentment to a Marriners Lanthorn, a Marriner when he is at Sea let him have never so much provision in his ship, yet if he be thousands of leagues from land, or in a rode that he shal not