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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 3: SERMON, III. at Stepney. Aug. 10. 1645.
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It is true, the spirit of a man may be able to sustain his infirmities, may be able to sustain and keep up his spirits, the natural spirit of a man, but much more then when this spirit is acted with grace and holiness, and when it is filled with the strength of Jesus Christ, this is the way of a godly mans getting contentment, the Mystery of it, it is by fetching in strength from Jesus Christ.
Twelfthly, Another Mystery that there is in it, it is, That a Godly heart enjoys much of God in every thing that it hath, and doth know how to make up all wants in God himself: that is another Mystery, he hath God in what he hath; that I spoke to somewhat before, in showing the dew of Gods blessing in what he hath, for God is able to let out a great deal of his power in little things, and therefore the miracles that God hath wrought, have been as much in little things as in great; now as God lets out a great deal of his power in working miracles in smaller things, so he lets out a great deal of goodness in mercy, in comforting and rejoicing the hearts of his people in little things as well as in great; there may be as much riches in a pearl as in a great deal of lumber; but now this is a distinct thing.
Twelfthly, Another Mystery that there is in it, it is, That a Godly heart enjoyes much of God in every thing that it hath, and doth know how to make up all wants in God himself: that is another Mystery, he hath God in what he hath; that I spoke to somwhat before, in shewing the dew of Gods blessing in what he hath, for God is able to let out a great deal of his power in little things, and therefore the miracles that God hath wrought, have been as much in little things as in great; now as God lets out a great deal of his power in working miracles in smaller things, so he lets out a great deal of goodness in mercy, in comforting and rejoycing the hearts of his people in little things as well as in great; there may be as much riches in a pearl as in a great deal of lumber; but now this is a distinct thing.