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…

3. Consider What wicked risings of heart, & resolutions of spirit there are many times in a discontented fit. In some discontented fits the heart rises against God, and against others and sometimes hath even desperate resolutions what to do to help themselves▪ If the Lord should have suffered you to have done, (sometimes in a discontented fit) what you had thought to do, what wonderful misery had you brought upon your selves, oh it was a mercy of God that did stop you, had not God stopped you, but let you go on when you thought to help your selves this way and the other way, oh it had been ill with you, do you but remember those risings of heart and wicked resolutions that sometimes you have had in a discontented mood, and learn to be humbled upon that.

3. Consider What wicked risings of heart, & resolutions of spirit there are many times in a discontented fit. In some discontented fits the heart rises against God, and against others and sometimes hath even desperate resolutions what to do to help themselves▪ If the Lord should have suffered you to have done, (sometimes in a discontented fit) what you had thought to doe, what wonderfull misery had you brought upon your selves, oh it was a mercy of God that did stop you, had not God stopt you, but let you go on when you thought to helpe your selves this way and the other way, oh it had been ill with you, doe you but remember those risings of heart and wicked resolutions that sometimes you have had in a discontented mood, and learn to be humbled upon that.

4. Unthankfulness that's an evil and a wicked effect that comes from discontent. Unthankfulness the Scripture doth rank among very great sins. For men and women that are discontent though they enjoy many mercies from God, yet they are thankful for none of them for this is the vile nature of discontentment to lessen every mercy of God; to make those mercies they have from God to be as nothing to them, because they have not what they would have. Sometimes it's so even in spiritual things, if they have not all they would have, the comforts that they would have, then what they have is nothing to them, do you think that God will take this well? If you should give a friend, a kinsman, a purse of money to go and trade withal, and he should come and say what do you give