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. Yea it's mighty contrary to the sight of the infinite excellency and glory of Jesus Christ, and of the things of the Gospel. What am I that soul that the Lord hath discovered such infinite excellency of Jesus Christ to, and yet shall I think such a little affliction to be so grievous to me, when I have had the sight of such glory in Christ that is more worth then ten thousand worlds? (for so will a true convert say) oh the Lord at such a time hath given me that sight of Christ that I would not be without for ten thousand thousand worlds▪ but hath God given thee that, and wilt thou be discontent for a trifle in comparison to that?

2. Yea it's mighty contrary to the sight of the infinit excellency and glory of Jesus Christ, and of the things of the Gospel. What am I that soul that the Lord hath discovered such infinit excellency of Jesus Christ to, and yet shall I thinke such a little affliction to be so grievous to me, when I have had the sight of such glory in Christ that is more worth then ten thousand worlds? (for so will a true convert say) oh the Lord at such a time hath given me that sight of Christ that I would not be without for ten thousand thousand worlds▪ but hath God given thee that, and wilt thou be discontent for a trif•e in comparison to that?

3. A third work when God brings the Soul home to himself, it is by the taking the heart off from the Creature, the disengaging the heart from all creature comforts, that's the third work ordinarily that the Soul may perceive of its self. It's true, Gods work may be altogether in the seeds in him, but in the several actings of the Soul in turning to God it may perceive these things in it, the disengagement of the heat from the Creature, that's the calling of the Soul from the world, whom the Lord hath called he hath justified, what's the calling of the ⟨p. 124⟩Soul but this, the Soul that before was seeking for Contentment in the world, and cleaving to the Creature, now the Lord calls the Soul out of the world, and saith, oh Soul, thy happiness is not here, thy rest is not here, thy happiness is else where, and thy heart must be loosened from all these things that are here below in the world, and this is the work of God in the Soul to disengage the heart from the Creature, and how contrary is a murmuring heart to such a thing; a thing that is glued to another you cannot take off, but you must rend it, so it's a sign thy heart is glued to the world, that when God would take thee off, thy heart rends, if God by an affliction should come to take any thing in the world from thee, if thou canst part from it with ease without rending, it's a sign then that thy heart is not glued to the world.