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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 12: A Twelfth Plea.
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A Twelfth Plea.
Another reasoning of a murmuring heart is this. Oh but after I have taken a great deal of pains for such a comfort, yet then I am erost in it, after a great deal of labour and pains that I have taken now to be crossed, Oh this goes very hard.
Another reasoning of a murmuring heart is this. Oh but after I have taken a great deale of pains for such a comfort, yet then I am erost in it, after a great deal of labour and pains that I have taken now to be crost, Oh this goes very hard.
First I answer, The greater cross, the more obedience and ⟨p. 185⟩submission.
First I answer, The greater crosse, the more obedience and ⟨p. 185⟩submission.
Secondly, when thou diddest take a great deal of pain was it not with submission to God? Diddest thou take pains with resolutions that thou must have such a thing when thou labourest for it? Then know that thou labourest not as a Christian, but if thou diddest labour and take pains was it not with resignation to God, Lord I am taking pains in the way of my calling, but with submission, I depend wholly upon thee for-success and a blessing; And what was it that thou diddest aim at in thy labour? was it not that thou mightest walk with God in the place that God had set thee? A Christian should do so in his outward calling, I am diligent in my outward calling but it is that I might obey God in it; it's true, I do it that I might provide for my family, but the chief thing that I aim at is that I might yield obedience to God in the way that God hath set me: Now if God calls thee to another condition to obey him in though it be by suffering, thou wilt do it if thy heart be right.