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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.
verse, Say unto them as truly as I live saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears so will I do to you, mark, God swears against a murmurer, sometimes in your discontent you will be ready to swear (it may be▪) do you swear in your discontent? So doth God swear against you for your discontent. And what was it that God would do unto them? vers. 29, 30. Doubtless your carcasses shall fall in the wilderness; and you shall not come into the land concerning which I swear, to make you dwell therein, as if God ⟨p. 143⟩should say, if I have any life in me, your lives shall go for it, as I live it shall cost you your lives. A discontented murmuring fit of yours may cost you your lives, You see how it provokes God, there is more evil in it then you were aware of, it may cost you your lives▪ and therefore look to your selves, and learn to he humbled at the very beginnings of such distempers in the heart. So in Psal. 106. 24, 25. Yea they despised the pleasant Land, they believed not his word; But murmured in their tents, and harkened not unto the voice of the Lord, therefore he lifted up his hand gainst them to overthrow them in the wilderness. Here are divers things observable in this Scripture.
verse, Say unto them as truly as I live saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine eares so will I do to you, mark, God swears against a murmurer, sometimes in your discontent you will be ready to swear (it may be▪) do you swear in your discontent? So doth God swear against you for your discontent. And what was it that God would doe unto them? vers. 29, 30. Doubtless your carkeises shall fall in the wilderness; and you shall not come into the land concerning which I swear, to make you dwel therein, as if God ⟨p. 143⟩should say, if I have any life in me, your lives shall go for it, as I live it shall cost you your lives. A discontented murmuring fit of yours may cost you your lives, You see how it provokes God, there is more evill in it then you were aware of, it may cost you your lives▪ and therefore look to your selves, and learn to he humbled at the verie beginings of such distempers in the heart. So in