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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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Now while thou livest in this world, thou mayest come to enjoy much of God, you may have much of heaven, while we live here in this life we may come to enjoy much of the very life that there is in heaven, and what is that but the enjoyment of God to be all in all to us? There is one text in the Revelations that speaks of the glorious condition of the Church that is like to be even here in this world, Rev. 21.22. And I saw no Temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the Temple of it; and the City had no need of the Sun, neither of the Moon to shine in it, for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. They had no need of the Sun or Moon. It speaks of such a glorious condition that ⟨p. 52⟩the Church is like to be in here in this world; this doth not speak of Heaven: and that appears plainly that this is not spoken of Heaven, but of a glorious estate that the Church shall be in here, in this world, for it follows presently in the 24. and 26. verses, And they (speaking of the Kings of the earth:) And the Kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour unto it: Why, the Kings of the Earth shall not bring their glory and honour into Heaven; but this is such a time when the Kings of the Earth shall bring in their glory and honour to the Church. And in the 26. verse, And they shall bring the glory and honour of the Nation into it; therefore it must needs be meant here in this world and not in Heaven. Now if there be such a time here in this world, that God shall be All in All, that in no comparison there shall be no such need of Creatures as now there is, then the Saints should labour to live as near that life as possibly they can, that is, to make up all in God: Oh that you would but mind this mystery, that it may be a reality to the hearts of the Saints in such times as these are, they would find this privilege, that they get by Grace, to be worth thousands of worlds: Hence is that of Jacob that I mentioned in another case, it is remarkable, and comes in fully here, in Gen. 33. that notable speech of Jacob when his brother Esau did meet him, ye find in one place, that Esau he refused Jacobs present, in the 8. verse, when Jacob gave his present to him, he refused it, and told Jacob that he had enough; What meanest thou by all this drove which I meet? And he said, These are to find grace in thy sight: