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…

O then there is no cause that any should be disquieted; there was never any such affliction as I have, and a hundred things they have to put off what is said to them, so as you cannot so much as get into their judgements to satisfy them; but there is a great deal of hope of Contentment if once your judgements come to be satisfied, that you can sit down and say in your judgements, I see cause to be contented; but though you have gotten thus far, yet you may have much to do with your hearts afterward: for there is such unruliness in our thoughts and affections, that our judgements are not able always to rule our thoughts and affections, and that makes me to say, That Contentment is an inward, quiet, gracious frame of Spirit, that is, the whole Soul, Judgement, Thoughts, Will, Affections and all are satisfied and quiet. I suppose in the very opening this, you begin to see it is a lesson that you had need learn, and it is not a thing soon got, if Contentment be such a thing as this is.

O then there is no cause that any should be disquieted; there was never any such affliction as I have, and a hundred things they have to put off what is said to them, so as you cannot so much as get into their judgements to satisfie them; but there is a great deal of hope of Contentment if once your judgements come to be satisfied, that you can sit down and say in your judgements, I see cause to be contented; but though you have gotten thus far, yet you may have much to do with your hearts afterward: for there is such unrulinesse in our thoughts and affections, that our judgements are not able alwaies to rule our thoughts and affections, and that makes me to say, That Contentment is an inward, quiet, gracious frame of Spirit, that is, the whole Soul, Judgement, Thoughts, Will, Affections and all are satisfied and quiet. I suppose in the very opening this, you begin to see it is a lesson that you had need learn, and it is not a thing soon got, if Contentment be such a thing as this is.

The Second thing is this, which is very observable, That spiritual contentment comes from the frame of the Soul. A man or woman that is contented in a right way▪ their Contentment doth not so much come from outward arguments, or any outward thing that helps them to be content, as it doth from the disposition of their own hearts It is the disposition of their own hearts that causes this Contentment; that brings forth this gracious Contentment rather then any external thing that