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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 4: SERMON, IV. at Stepney. Aug. 17. 1645.
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SERMON, IV. at Stepney. Aug. 17. 1645.
PHIL. 4.11. For I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
IN the last exercise we spoke of divers things in the mystery of Contentment, and in the close we spoke of two more, but we could not have time to open either of them, I shall open them a little more largely, and then proceed to some few more, and so to other things in the point.
That is the next thing, A Christian heart hath not only contentment in God (and certainly, he that hath God, must have all, he that hath him that hath all, he hath all) But he is able to make up all his outward wants of Creature-comforts from what he finds in himself: That may seem to be more strange; It is true, perhaps we may convince men though they do not feel by experience what it is to make up all in God, yet we may convince them that if they have him that hath all things, then they have all; for there is such a fullness in God, he being the infinite first Being of all things that may make up all their wants. ⟨p. 58⟩But here is another thing, that is further: I say, A Godly man can make up whatsoever he wants without the creature, he can make it up in himself, in