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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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what I venture to the Sea that is not sure, but here is an Assurance Office indeed, here is a great Assurance Office for the Saints, and they are not at charge, but only the exercising of Grace, for they may go to this Assurance Office to assure everything that they venture, either to have the thing it self, or be paid for it: In an assurance Office you cannot be assured to have the very goods come in that you insured, but if they be lost the Insurers do engage themselves to make it good to you. And this Covenant of grace that God hath made with his people, it is Gods Assurance Office, and the Saints in all their fears may, and ought to go to the Covenant to assure all things to them, to assure their estates, and assure their lives. You will say, How are they sure, their lives and estates go as well as others? But God engages himself to make up all; And then mark what follows, This is all my salvation; Why David, wilt thou not have salvation from thine Enemies and outward dangers, from pestilence and plague? The frame of his spirit is quieted, as if he should say, If that salvation comes, well and good, I shall praise God for it, but that that I have in the Covenant, that is my salvation, I look upon that as enough: Yea and then further, This is all my salvation, and all my desire, Why David, is there not something else that thou wouldst have besides this Covenant? No saith he, It is all involved in this. Now surely those men or women must needs live contented lives that have all their desires; now saith the holy man here, this is all my desire, And though he make it not to grow. But for all this Covenant perhaps you will not prosper in the world as other men do: True, but I am at a point for that: Though God doth not make my house to grow, I have all my desires.
what I venture to the Sea that is not sure, but here is an Assurance Office indeed, here is a great Assurance Office for the Saints, and they are not at charge, but only the exercising of Grace, for they may go to this Assurance Office to assure everything that they venture, either to have the thing it self, or be paid for it: In an assurance Office you cannot be assured to have the very goods come in that you insured, but if they be lost the Insurers do engage themselves to make it good to you. And this Covenant of grace that God hath made with his people, it is Gods Assurance Office, and the Saints in all their fears may, and ought to go to the Covenant to assure all things to them, to assure their estates, and assure their lives. You will say, How are they sure, their lives and estates go as well as others? But God engages himself to make up all; And then mark what follows, This is all my salvation; Why David, wilt thou not have salvation from thine Enemies and outward dangers, from pestilence and plague? The frame of his spirit is quieted, as if he should say, If that salvation comes, well and good, I shall praise God for it, but that that I have in the Covenant, that is my salvation, I look upon that as enough: Yea and then further, This is all my salvation, and all my desire, VVhy David, is there not somthing else that thou wouldst have besides this Covenant? No saith he, It is all involved in this. Now surely those men or women must needs live contented lives that have all their desires; now saith the holy man here, this is all my desire, And though he make it not to grow. But for all this Covenant perhaps you will not prosper in the world as other men do: True, but I am at a point for that: Though God doth not make my house to grow, I have all my desires.