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The rare jewel of Christian contentment Wherein is showedThe rare jewel of Christian contentment Wherein is shewed
The rare jewel of Christian contentment Wherein is showed; 1. What contentment is. 2. The holy art or mystery of it. 3. Several lessons that Christ teacheth, to work the heart to contentment. 4. The excellencies of it. 5. The evils of murmuring. 6. The aggravations of the sin of murmuring. By Jeremiah Burroughs. The first of the eleven volumes that are published by Thomas Goodwin, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simpson, Philip Nigh, William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.The rare jewel of Christian contentment Wherein is shewed; 1. What contentment is. 2. The holy art or mystery of it. 3. Several lessons that Christ teacheth, to work the heart to contentment. 4. The excellencies of it. 5. The evils of murmuring. 6. The aggravations of the sin of murmuring. By Jeremiah Burroughs. The first of the eleven volumes that are published by Thomas Goodwin, William Greenhil, Sydrach Sympson, Philip Nye, William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.
London: printed for Ben. Billingsley, 1666
THE RARE JEWEL OF CHRISTIAN CONTENTMENT. › Sermon 2: At Stepney. Aug. 3. 1645.
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.
many times in a family, when any affliction befalls them, O what a deal of discontentment is there between man and wise, if crossed in their estates at Land, or ill news from Sea, or those that they trusted are broke, and the like, and perhaps somewhat in the family falls cross between man and wife, or in reference to the ⟨p. 33⟩children or servants, and there is nothing but brabbling and discontent among them, now they many times are burdened with their own discontent, and perhaps will say one to another This life is very uncomfortable for us to live thus discontented so as we do; but have you ever tried this way, the husband and the wife? have you ever got alone and said, Come, O let us go, and humble our souls before God together, let us go into our chamber and humble our souls before God for our sins, whereby we have abused those mercies that God hath taken away from us, and we have provoked God against us, O let us charge our selves with our sin, and be humbled before the Lord together, have you tried such a way as this is? Oh you would find the cloud would be taken away, and the Sun would shine in upon you, and you would have a great deal more Contentment than ever yet you had: If a mans estate be broken, either by plunderers, or any other way; now how shall this man have Contentment? how? By the breaking of his heart; God hath broken thy estate, Oh seek to him for the breaking of thy heart likewise; Indeed a broken estate, and a whole heart, a hard heart, will not join together, there will be no Contentment; but a broken estate, and a broken heart, will so suit together, as there will be more Contentment than there was before; add therefore to the breaking of thy estate, the breaking of thy heart what thou canst, and that is the way to be contented in a Christian manner, which is the Third Mystery in Christian Contentation.
many times in a family, when any affliction befalls them, O what a deal of discontentment is there between man and wise, if crost in their estates at Land, or ill news from Sea, or those that they trusted are broke, and the like, and perhaps somwhat in the family falls cross between man and wife, or in reference to the ⟨p. 33⟩children or servants, and there is nothing but brabling and discontent among them, now they many times are burdened with their own discontent, and perhaps will say one to another This life is very uncomfortable for us to live thus discontented so as we do; but have you ever tried this way, the husband and the wife? have you ever got alone and said, Come, O let us go, and humble our souls before God together, let us go into our chamber and humble our souls before God for our sins, whereby we have abused those mercies that God hath taken away from us, and we have provok'd God against us, O let us charge our selves with our sin, and be humbled before the Lord together, have you tried such a way as this is? Oh you would find the cloud would be taken away, and the Sun would shine in upon you, and you would have a great deal more Contentment than ever yet you had: If a mans estate be broken, either by plunderers, or any other way; now how shall this man have Contentment? how? By the breaking of his heart; God hath broken thy estate, Oh seek to him for the breaking of thy heart likewise; Indeed a broken estate, and a whole heart, a hard heart, will not joyn together, there will be no Contentment; but a broken estate, and a broken heart, will so sute together, as there will be more Contentment than there was before; add therefore to the breaking of thy estate, the breaking of thy heart what thou canst, and that is the way to be contented in a Christian manner, which is the Third Mystery in Christian Contentation.