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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.
The Sixth Lesson that Christ doth teach the soul that he brings into this School, is this; He doth instruct such a man or woman in the knowledge of their own hearts: you must learn this or you will never learn Contentment; you must learn to know your own hearts well, to be good Students of your own hearts; you cannot all be Scholars in the Arts and Sciences in the world, but you may all be Students in your own hearts; you cannot read in the book (many of you) but God expects that every day you should turn over a leaf in your own hearts; you will never come to get any skill in this Mystery, except you study the book of your own hearts: Mariners, they have their books that they study, those that will be good Navigators; and Scholars they have their books; those that study Logic, they have their books according to that; and those that would study Rhetoric and Philosophy have their books according to that; and those that study Divinity, they have their books whereby they come to be helped in the Study of Divinity: but a Christian (next to the Book of God) is to look into the book of his own heart, and to read over that, and this will help you to Contentment these three ways: 1. By the studying of thy heart, thou wilt come presently to discover wherein thy discontent lies; when thou art discontented thou wilt find out the root of any discontentment if thou doest study thy heart well: many men and women they are discontented, and the truth is they know not wherefore, they think this and the other thing is the cause, but a man or woman that knows their own heart, they will find out presently where the root of their discontent lies, that it lies in such a corruption, and distemper of my heart, that now through Gods mercy I have found out; It is in this case as it is with a little child that is very froward in the house, if a stranger comes in he doth not know what the matter is, perhaps the stranger will give the ⟨p. 83⟩Child a Rattle, or a Nut, or such a thing to quiet it, but when the Nurse comes she knows the temper and disposition of the Child, and therefore knows best how to quiet it: So it is here just thus for all the world, when we are strangers with our own hearts we are mightily discontented, and know not how to quiet our selves, because we know not wherein the disquiet lieth:
The Sixth Lesson that Christ doth teach the soul that he brings into this School, is this; He doth instruct such a man or woman in the knowledge of their own hearts: you must learn this or you will never learn Contentment; you must learn to know your own hearts well, to be good Students of your own hearts; you cannot all be Scholars in the Arts and Sciences in the world, but you may all be Students in your own hearts; you cannot read in the book (many of you) but God expects that every day you should turn over a leaf in your own hearts; you will never come to get any skill in this Mystery, except you study the book of your own hearts: Marriners, they have their books that they study, those that will be good Navigators; and Scholars they have their books; those that study Logick, they have their books according to that; and those that would study Rethorick and Philosophy have their books according to that; and those that study Divinity, they have their books whereby they come to be helped in the Study of Divinity: but a Christian (next to the Book of God) is to look into the book of his own heart, and to read over that, and this will help you to Contentment these three ways: 1. By the studying of thy heart, thou wilt come presently to discover wherein thy discontent lies; when thou art discontented thou wilt find out the root of any discontentment if thou doest study thy heart well: many men and women they are discontented, and the truth is they know not wherefore, they think this and the other thing is the cause, but a man or woman that knows their own heart, they will find out presently where the root of their discontent lies, that it lies in such a corruption, and distemper of my heart, that now through Gods mercy I have found out; It is in this case as it is with a little childe that is very froward in the house, if a stranger comes in he doth not know what the matter is, perhaps the stranger will give the