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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.
Sixthly, It is below a Christian in this, because it's below those helps that a Christian hath more then others have, they have the promises to help them that others have not, it's not so much to have a Nabal have his heart sink, because he hath nothing but the creature to uphold him, but it's much for a Christian that hath promises and ordinances to uphold his spirit which others have not.
Sixthly, It is below a Christian in this, because it's below those helps that a Christian hath more then others have, they have the promises to help them that others have not, it's not so much to have a Nabal have his heart sinke, because he hath nothing but the creature to uphold him, but it's much for a Christian that hath promises and ordinances to uphold his spirit which others have not.
Seventhly, It's below the expectation, that God hath of Christian• ▪ for God expects not only that they should be patient in afflictions, but that they should rejoice and triumph in them, now ⟨p. 133⟩Christians, when God expects this from you, for you not so much as to have attained to contentedness under afflictions, oh this is beneath the expectation of God from you.
Seventhly, It's below the expectation, that God hath of Christian• ▪ for God expects not only that they should be patient in afflictions, but that they should rejoyce and triumph in them, now ⟨p. 133⟩Christians, when God expects this from you, for you not so much as to have attained to contentednesse under afflictions, oh this is beneath the expectation of God from you.