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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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This is a good promise for Soldiers, though still not to lay too much upon the literal sense: True, it holds forth thus much, that Gods protection is in a special manner over Soldiers that are godly, And every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgement, thou shalt condemn: and this is against false witness too: Oh you, that your friends never left you any thing, you will say, my friends died and left me not a groat, but I thank God, God hath provided for me; but though thy father or mother died and left thee no heritage, yet thou hast a heritage in the promise, This is their heritage. So that there's no Godly man or woman, but is a great Heir. Therefore when thou lookest into the Book of God, and findest any Promise there, thou mayest make that thine own. Just as an Heir that rides over divers fields and meadows, saith he, This meadow is my heritage, and this Corn-field is my heritage: and then he sees a fair house, and saith he, this fair house is my heritage; and he looks upon them with another manner of eye than a stranger that shall ride over those fields. So a carnal heart reads the Promises, and reads them but merely as stories, not that they have any great interest in them: But a godly man every time he reads the Scriptures (remember this Note when you are reading the Scripture) and there meeteth with a Promise, he ought to lay his hand upon it, and say, this is a part of my heritage, it's mine, and I am to live upon it, and this will make you to be contented. Here's a Mysterious way of Contentment. So in Psal. 34.10. and 37.6. there's divers other Promises that brings Contentment. In Isa. 58.10. And thus much for the Mystery of Contentment by way of the Covenant.
This is a good promise for Souldiers, though still not to lay too much upon the literal sense: True, it holds forth thus much, that Gods protection is in a special manner over Souldiers that are godly, And every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgement, thou shalt condemn: and this is against false witness too: Oh you, that your friends never left you any thing, you will say, my friends died and left me not a groat, but I thank God, God hath provided for me; but though thy father or mother died and left thee no heritage, yet thou hast a heritage in the promise, This is their heritage. So that ther's no Godly man or woman, but is a great Heir. Therefore when thou lookest into the Book of God, and findest any Promise there, thou mayest make that thine own. Just as an Heir that rides over divers fields and meadows, saith he, This meadow is my heritage, and this Corn-field is my heritage: and then he sees a fair house, and saith he, this fair house is my heritage; and he looks upon them with another manner of eye than a stranger that shall ride over those fields. So a carnal heart reads the Promises, and reads them but meerly as stories, not that they have any great interest in them: But a godly man every time he reads the Scriptures (remember this Note when you are reading the Scripture) and there meeteth with a Promise, he ought to lay his hand upon it, and say, this is a part of my heritage, it's mine, and I am to live upon it, and this will make you to be contented. Here's a Mysterious way of Contentment. So in