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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.
You think if I had such a thing then I should be content. I say there is more good in Contentment, then there is in the thing that you would fallen have to cure your discontent, and ⟨p. 113⟩that I shall open in divers particulars, as thus.
You think if I had such a thing then I should be content. I say there is more good in Contentment, then there is in the thing that you would faln have to cure your discontent, and ⟨p. 113⟩that I shall open in divers particulars, as thus.
1 I would fain have such a thing, and then I could be content, but if I had it then it were but the Creature that did help to my Contentment, but now it's the Grace of God in my soul that makes me content, and surely it is better to be Content with the Grace of God in my soul, then with the enjoying of an outward comfort.
2. If I had such a thing indeed my estate might be better, but my soul would not be better, but by Contentment my soul is better, that would not be bettered by an estate, or lands, or friends; but Contentment makes my self to be better, and therefore Contentment is a better portion then the thing is that I would fain have to be my portion.
2. If I had such a thing indeed my estate might be better, but my soul would not be better, but by Contentment my soul is better, that would not be bettered by an estate, or lands, or friends; but Contentment makes my selfe to be better, and therefore Contentment is a better portion then the thing is that I would fain have to be my portion.