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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
THE RARE JEWEL OF CHRISTIAN Contentment. › Sermon 10 › Plea 10: A Tenth Plea.
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A Tenth Plea.
There's another reasoning that some may have and that is this. Oh I could bear much affliction in some other way but this is very grievous to me, the unsettledness of my condition, though my condition were but low yet if it were in a settled way I could be content, but it is so unconstant, and so unsettled, that I can never know what to trust to, but am tossed up and down in the world in an unsettled condition, and this is hard to be content with.
There's another reasoning that some may have and that is this. Oh I could bear much affliction in some other way but this is very greivious to me, the unsetlednesse of my condition, though my condition were but low yet if it were in a setled way I could be content, but it is so unconstant, and so unsetled, that I can never know what to trust to, but am tost up and down in the world in an unsetled condition, and this is hard to be content with.
Now to that I answer first, that the Psalmist saith That every man in his settled estate is vanity, in Psalm, 36. 5. your books have it, Every man at his best estate is vanity, the word is his settled estate, you think if you were but settled, Oh then you could be content, but the truth is, man in his settled estate is vanity.