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…

And lastly, There's this evil effect in murmuring, it causes shiftings of spirit, they that murmur and are discontent, are liable to temptations, to shift for them selves in sinful and ungodly ways, discontent is the ground of shifting courses and unlawful ways. How many of you may have your consciences condemn you of this, that you in the time of your afflictions have sought to shift for your selves by ways that have been sinful against God, and your discontent was the bottom and ground of it? If you would avoid shiftings for your selves by wicked ways, labour to mortify this sin of discontent, to mortify it at the root.

And lastly, There's this evil effect in murmuring, it causes shifttings of spirit, they that murmur and are discontent, are lyable to temptations, to shift for them selves in sinfull and ungodly waies, discontent is the ground of shifting courses and unlawful waies. How many of you may have your consciences condemne you of this, that you in the time of your afflictions have sought to shift for your selves by waies that have been sinfull against God, and your discontent was the bottom and ground of it? If you would avoid shiftings for your selves by wicked waies, labour to mortifie this sin of discontent, to mortifie it at the root.

The eight evil that there is in murmuring and discontent is this, There is a great deal of folly, extreme folly in a discontented heart, it's a foolish sin. I shall open the folly of it in many particulars.

The eight evill that there is in murmuring and discontent is this, There is a great deal of folly, extream folly in a discontented heart, it's a foolish sin. I shall open the folly of it in many particulars.

1. It takes away the present comfort of what you have, because you have not somewhat that you would have. What a foolish thing is this that because I have not what I would have, I will not enjoy the comfort of what I have: Do not you account this folly in your children, you give them some victuals and they are not contented, perhaps (they say) it's not enough, they cry for more, and if you do not presently give them more they will throw away that they have, and though you account that folly in your children, yet you deal thus with God, God gives you many mercies, but you see others have more mercies