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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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4. A fourth work of God in the converting of a sinner, is this, the casting of the soul upon Jesus Christ for all its good: I see Jesus Christ in the Gospel the Fountain of all good, and God out of free Grace tendering him to me for life, and for salvation, and now my soul casts its self, rolls its self upon the infinite Grace of God in Christ for all good, now hast thou done so? hath God converted thee, and drawn thee to his Son to cast thy soul upon him for all thy good, and yet thou discontented for the want of some little matter in a creature comfort? art thou he that hath cast thy Soul upon Jesus Christ for all good? as he saith in another case, is this thy faith?
4. A fourth work of God in the converting of a sinner, is this, the casting of the soul upon Jesus Christ for all its good: I see Jesus Christ in the Gospel the Fountain of all good, and God out of free Grace tendering him to me for life, and for salvation, and now my soul casts its selfe, rouls its selfe upon the infinit Grace of God in Christ for all good, now hast thou done so? hath God converted thee, and drawn thee to his Son to cast thy soul upon him for all thy good, and yet thou discontented for the want of some little matter in a creature comfort? art thou he that hath cast thy Soul upon Jesus Christ for all good? as he saith in another case, is this thy faith?
5. The Soul is subdued to God. And then it comes to receive Jesus Christ as a King, to rule, to order, and dispose of him how he pleases, and so the heart is subdued unto God. Now how opposite is a murmuring discontented heart to a heart subdued to Jesus Christ as a King, and receiving him as a Lord to rule and dispose of him as he pleases.
6. There is in the work of thy turning to God the giving up of thy self to God in an everlasting Covenant, as thou takest Christ the head of the Covenant to be thine, so thou givest up thy self to Christ; In the work of Conversion there is the resignation of the Soul wholly to God in an everlasting Covenant to be his, hast thou ever surrendered up thy self to God in an everlasting Covenant? then certainly this thy fretting, murmuring