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…

But mark here their discontentedness, because they met with some troubles in the wilderness, oh it was to slay them, they make their affliction in the wilderness to be greater then it was, Oh it was to kill them, though it were indeed to carry them to the Land of Canaan. But now their deliverance from Egypt though it was a great mercy, they made that mercy to be nothing, for say they you have brought us out of a land that floweth with mith milk and honey, what land was that? It was the land of Egypt, the land of their bondage, but they call it a land that flowed with milk and honey, though it were the land of their most cruel and unsupportable bondage; whereas they should have blessed God as long as they had lived for▪ Gods delivering them out of the land of Egypt, yet meeting with some cross they make their deliverance from Egypt no mercy, no, it was rather a misery to them, Oh (say they) Egypt was a land that flowed with milk and honey. Oh what baseness is there in a discontented spirit! a discontented spirit out of envy to Gods grace will make mercies that are great to be little, yea to be none at all. Would one ever have thought that such a word should have come from the mouth of an Israelite that had bin under bondage and cried under it, and yet when they meet with a little cross in their may to say, you have brought us out of the land that floweth with milk and honey, to say they ⟨p. 138⟩were better before then now, and yet before they could not be contented neither; this is the usual unthankful expression of a discontented heart: And it is so with us now when we meet with any cross in our estates, any taxations and trouble, especially if any among you have bin where the enemy hath prevailed, you are ready to say, we had plenty before and we are now brought to a condition of hardship, we were better before when we had the Prelates and others to domineer, and so we in danger our selves to be brought into that bondage again; oh let us take heed of this, of a discontented heart, there is this woeful cursed fruit of discontent to make men and women unthankful for all the mercies God hath granted to them, and this is a sore and grievous evil.

But mark here their discontentednesse, because they met with some troubles in the wildernesse, oh it was to slay them, they make their affliction in the wildernesse to be greater then it was, Oh it was to kill them, though it were indeed to carry them to the Land of Canaan. But now their deliverance from Egypt though it was a great mercy, they made that mercy to be nothing, for say they you have brought us out of a land that floweth with mith milk and honey, what land was that? It was the land of Egypt, the land of their bondage, but they call it a land that flowed with milk and honey, though it were the land of their most cruell and unsupportable bondage; whereas they should have blessed God as long as they had liv'd for Gods delivering them out of the land of Egypt, yet meeting with some crosse they make their deliverance from Egypt no mercy, no, it was rather a misery to them, Oh (say they) Egypt was a land that flowed with milk and honey. Oh what basenesse is there in a discontented spirit! a discontented spirit out of envy to Gods grace will make mercies that are great to be little, yea to be none at all. Would one ever have thought that such a word should have come from the mouth of an Israelite that had bin under bondage and cried under it, and yet when they meet with a little crosse in their may to say, you have brought us out of the land that floweth with milk and honey, to say they