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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 5: SERMON, V. at Stepney. Aug. 24. 1645.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I Mentioned three Lessons the last time, that Christ teaches those Scholars that come into his School, whereby they might come to get Contentment.
First, The Lesson of Self-denial. Secondly, the Lesson of the vanity of the creature. Thirdly, the right understanding of that One thing that is Necessary. A little to enlarge this one, and so to proceed to others.
It is said of Pompey, that when he was to carry corn to Rome in time of dearth, he was in a great deal of danger by storms at Sea, but saith he, We must go on, it is necessary that Rome should be relieved, but it is not necessary that we should live. So it would be certainly when the soul is once taken up with the things that are of absolute necessity, it will not be much ⟨p. 76⟩troubled about other things. What are the things that do disquiet us here, but some By matters in this world; and it is, because our hearts are not taken up with that one Absolute Necessary thing. Who are the men that are most discontented, but idle persons, persons that have nothing to take up their minds, every little thing disquiets and discontents them? But now a man that hath business of great weight and consequence, if all things go well with his great business that is in his head, he is not sensible of meaner things in the family; but now a man that lies at home and hath nothing to do, he finds fault with every thing: So it is with the heart; when the heart of a man hath no thing to do but to be busy about Creature comforts, every little thing troubles him; but now, when the heart is taken up with the weighty things of Eternity, the great things of eternal life, the heart being taken up with them, these things that are here below, that did disquiet it before, are things now of no consideration with him, in comparison to the other, so as how things fall out here is not much regarded, with him, if the One thing that is Necessary be provided for.