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…

Thirdly, as it's made a brand of ungodly men, so you shall find in Scripture that God accounts it rebellion, that is contrary to the worship that there was in contentedness: that's worshipping of God, crouching to God and falling down before him, even as a dog that would crouch when you hold a staff over him, but a murmuring heart it's a rebellious heart, and that you shall find if you compare two Scriptures together, they are both in the book of Numb. 16. 41. But on the morrow (saith the text) all the congregation of the Children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, ye have killed the people of the Lord. They all murmured, now compare this with the Chap. 17. & vers. 10. And the Lord said unto Moses bring Aaron's rod again, before the testimony to be kept for a token against the Rebels; in the 16. Chap. they murmured against Moses and Aaron, and in the 17. Chap. bring the rod of Aaron again, before the testimony, for a token against the Rebels. So that to be a murmurer, and to be a rebel you see in Scripture phrase is all one, It is a rebellion against God: as it is the beginning of rebellion and sedition in a kingdom when the people are discontent, ⟨p. 122⟩and when discontentment comes it grows to murmuring, and you can go into no house almost but there is murmuring when men are discontent, so that within a little while it breaks forth into sedition or rebellion. Murmuring it's but as the smoke of the fire, there is first a smoke and smother before the flame breaks forth, and so before open rebellion in a kingdom there is first a smoke of murmuring, and then it breaks forth into open rebellion▪ but because it hath rebellion in the seeds of it therefore it is accounted before the Lord to be rebellion▪ Wilt thou be a Rebel against God? When thou feelest thy heart discontented and murmuring against the dispensations of •od towards thee, thou shouldest check thy heart thus. Oh thou wretched heart what wilt thou be a Rebel against God? wilt thou rise in a way of Rebellion against the infinite God?

Thirdly, as it's made a brand of ungodly men, so you shal find in Scripture that God accounts it rebellion, that is contrary to the worship that there was in contentednesse: that's worshiping of God, crowching to God and falling down before him, even as a dog that would crowch when you hould a staffe over him, but a murmuring heart it's a rebellious heart, and that you shall find if you compare two Scriptures together, they are both in the book of