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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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and if he doth bring such an affliction, it is more then an ordinary providence. 'Tis some special providence that God hath in it. I had thought to have given you divers promises for the Contentment of the heart in the time of affliction, Isa. 43.2. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burnt, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. Certainly though this promise was made in the time of the Law, yet it will be made good to all the Saints now, one way or other, either in the letter or some other way. For so we find it plainly, that promise that was made to Joshua, I will not fail thee nor forsake thee, Josh. 1.5. It's applied to the Christians in the time of the Gospel. So that here is the way of faith in bringing Contentment by the Promises, that all the Promises that ever were made to our forefathers, from the beginning of the world, the Saints of God have an interest in them, they are their inheritances, and so goes on from one generation to another, and by that they come to have Contentment, because they do inherit all the promises made in all the Book of God: So Heb. 13.5. shows plainly, that it is our inheritance, and we do not inherit less now than they did in Joshua's time, but we inherit more, for you shall find in that place of the Hebrews, there is more said than is to Joshua; to Joshua God saith, He will not leave him, nor forsake him; now in that place of the Hebrews in the Greek there is five negatives, I will not, not, not, not, not, again there is the elegance of it very much, in the Greek I say there is five negatives in that little sentence; as if God should say, I will not leave you, no, I will not, I will not, I will not, ⟨p. 66⟩with such earnestness five times together: So that we have not only the same promises that they had, but we have them more enlarged and more full, though still not so much in the literal sense, for that indeed is the last part of the promise. In Isa. 54.17. there God made a promise, that no weapon formed against his people should prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against them in judgement thou shalt condemn (and mark what follows) this is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord: