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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
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A fourth particular in the evil of Discontentment, it is a wickedness that is exceeding contrary to Grace, and especially contrary to the work of God, in bringing of the soul home to himself▪ I know no distemper more opposite and contrary to the work of God in conversion of a sinner, then this is
A fourth particular in the evill of Discontentment, it is a wickednesse that is exceeding contrary to Grace, and especially contrary to the worke of God, in bringing of the soul home to himselfe▪ I know no distemper more opposite and contrary to the work of God in conversion of a sinner, then this is
Quest. What's the work of God when he brings a sinner home to himself?
Quest. What's the work of God when he brings a sinner home to himselfe?
Answ. The usual way is for God to make the •oul to •ee and be sensible of the dreadful evil that there is in sin, and the great breath that sin hath made between God and it▪ for certainly ⟨p. 123⟩Jesus Christ can never be known in his beauty and excellency till the soul know that. I do not speak what secret work of the Holy Ghost there may be in the Soul, but before the Soul can actually apply Jesus Christ to its self, it is impossible but it must come to know the evil of sin, and the excellency of Jesus Christ: there may be a seed of faith put into the Soul, but the Soul must first know Christ, and know sin, and be made sensible of it. Now how contrary is this sin of murmuring to any such work of God; hath God made me see the dreadful evil of sin, and made my soul to be sensible of the evil of sin as the greatest burden? how can I be then so much troubled for every little affliction? certainly i I saw what the evil of sin were, that sight would swallow up all other evils, and if I were burdened with the evil of sin, it would swallow up all other burdens, what am I now murmuring against Gods hand (saith such a Soul) when as a while ago the Lord made me see my self o be a damned wretch, and apprehend it as a wonder that I was not in Hell?