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 The relation that thou standest in to Jesus Christ, thou art the spouse of Christ, what! one married to Jesus Christ & yet troubled and discontented? hast thou not enough in him? doth not Christ say to his spouse, as Elkanah said to Hannah, 1 Sam. 1. 8. Am not I better to thee then ten sons? So doth not Christ thy husband say to thee, Am not I better to thee then thousands of riches and comforts, such comforts as thou murmurest for want of, hath not God given thee his Son and will he not with him give thee all things? hath the love of God bin to thee to give thee his Son in way of marriage? why art thou discontented and murmuring? consider thy relation to Jesus Christ, ⟨p. 127⟩as thou art a spouse and married to him, his person is thine, and so all the riches of Jesus Christ is thine, as the riches of a husband are the wives, and though there are some husbands so vile as the wives may be forced to sue for maintenance; certainly Jesus Christ will never deny maintenance to his spouse, it's a dishonour for a husband to have the wife go whining up and down; what, thou art matched with Christ & art his spouse, and wilt thou murmur now and be discontented in thy spirit? You shall observe among those that are newly matched, when there is discontent between the wife and the husband, their friends will shake their heads and say, they do not meet with that that they did expect, ye see ever since they were married together how the man looks, and the woman looks, they are not so cheerly as they were wont to be, surely (say they) it is like to prove an ill match. But it's not so here, it shall not be so between thee and Christ: Oh Jesus Christ doth not love to see his spouse to have a louring countenance: no man loves to see discontentment in the face of his wife, surely Christ doth not love to see discontentment in the face of his spouse.

2 The relation that thou standest in to Jesus Christ, thou art the spouse of Christ, what! one married to Jesus Christ & yet troubled and discontented? hast thou not enough in him? doth not Christ say to his spouse, as Elkanah said to Hannah, 1 Sam. 1. 8. Am not I better to thee then ten sons? So doth not Christ thy husband say to thee, Am not I better to thee then thousands of riches and comforts, such comforts as thou murmurest for want of, hath not God given thee his Son and will he not with him give thee all things? hath the love of God bin to thee to give thee his Son in way of marriage? why art thou discontented and murmuring? consider thy relation to Jesus Christ,