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 tenth evil of murmuring and discontent is this, There's a great curse of God upon it, so far as it doth prevail in one that is wicked, it hath the curse of God upon it. In Psal. 59. 15, See there what the curse of God is upon wicked and ungodly men, Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied, that is the imprecation and curse upon wicked and ungodly men, that if they be not satisfied they shall grudge; when thou art not satisfied in thy desires and findest thy heart grudging against God, apply this Scripture, what is the curse of the wicked upon me? This is the curse that is threatened upon wicked and ungodly ones, that they shall grudge if they be not satisfied? And in Deut. 28. 67. There it's threatened as a curse of God upon men, that they cannot be content with their present condition, But they shall say in the morning, would God it were even; and at even, would God it were morning; and so they lie tossing up and down and cannot be content with any condition that they are in, because of the sore afflictions that be upon them, and therefore it is further threatened as a curse upon them, in the 34. verse, That they should be mad for the fight of their eyes which they should see, this is but the extremity of their discontentedness, that is, they shall be so discontented, as they shall be even mad: Many men and women in discontented moods are mad kind of people, and though you may please your selves in such a mad kind of behaviour, yet know that it is a curse of God upon men to be given up to a kind of madness for evils that they suppose are upon them, & that they fear. In the 47 verse, there is a notable expression for to show the curse of God upon murmuring hearts; The Lord threatening the curses that shall be upon them, (saith he) verse, 45, & 46. & 47. The curse shall pursue thee, and they shall be upon thee for a sign, and for a wonder, and upon thy seed forever: Because thou servedst not the ⟨p. 147⟩Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things. God here threatens to bring his curse so upon them, as to make them a wonder and a sign to others, why? Because they served not the Lord with joyfulness of heart, (that may be added to that of the wrath of God upon men) therefore God would bring such a curse upon them as would make them a wonder to all that were about them;