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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 seventh thing that I add for the evil of discontentment is the woeful effects that comes to a discontented heart from murmuring, Isle name you five, there are five evil effects that comes from a murmuring spirit.
The seventh thing that I adde for the evill of discontentment is the wofull effects that comes to a discontented heart from murmuring, Ile name you five, there are five evill effects that comes from a murmuring spirit.
1. By murmuring and discontent in your hearts, you come to loose a great deal of time, how many times do men and women when they are discontented let their thoughts run, and are musing and contriving (through their present discontentedness) then let their discontented thoughts be working in them, for some hours together, and they spend their time in vain. When you are alone you should spend your time in holy meditation, but you are spending your time in discontented thoughts, you who complain that you cannot meditate, you cannot think on good things, but if you begin to think of them a little, presently your thoughts are off from them, but if you be discontented with any thing, then you can go alone, and muse, and roll things up and down in your thoughts to feed a discontented humour: Oh labour to see this evil effect of murmuring, the losing of your time.
1. By murmuring and discontent in your hearts, you come to loose a great deale of time, how many times doe men and women when they are discontended let their thoughts run, and are musing and contriving (through their present discontendednesse) then let their discontended thoughts be working in them, for some hours together, and they spend their time in vain. When you are alone you should spend your time in holy meditation, but you are spending your time in discontented thoughts, you who complain that you cannot meditate, you cannot thinke on good things, but if you begin to think of them a little, presently your thoughts are off from them, but if you be discontented with any thing, then you can go alone, and muse, and roul things up and down in your thoughts to feed a discontented humour: Oh labour to see this evill effect of murmuring, the losing of your time.