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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.
The fifth thing in the evil of discontentment, Murmuring ⟨p. 126⟩and discontentment is exceedingly below a Christian; Oh it is too mean and base a distemper for a Christian to give place to it. Now it's below a Christian in many respects.
The fift thing in the evill of discontentment, Murmuring ⟨p. 126⟩and discontentment is exceedingly below a Christian; Oh it is too mean and base a distemper for a Christian to give place to it. Now it's below a Christian in many respects.
1 How below the relation of a Christian? The relation in which thousandest. With what relation you will say?
First, the relation thou standest in to God, doest not thou call God thy father? and doest not thou stand in relation to him as a child? what thou murmur? In 2 Sam. 13. 4. Its a speech of Jonadab to Amn•n. Why art thou being the Kings Son, •ean from day to day, wilt thou not tell me? and so he could him, (but that was for a wicked cause,) he perceived that his spirit was troubled, for otherwise he was of a fat and plump temper of body but because of trouble of spirit he was even pined away; why? what's the matter? thou that standest in this relation to the King and yet any thing should trouble thy heart, (that's his meaning,) is there any thing that should disquiet thy heart and yet standest in such a relation to the King, the Kings Son? So I may say to a Christian, art thou the Kings Son, the Son, the Daughter, of the King of Heaven, and yet so disquieted and troubled, and vexed at every little thing that falls out? as if a Kings Son should cry out he is undone for loosing a babble, what an unworthy thing were this: So doest thou, thou criest out as if thou wert undone and yet a Kings Son, thou that standest in such relation to God, as unto a father, thou doest dishonour thy father in this; as if so be either he had not wisdom, or not power, or not mercy enough to provide for thee.