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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.
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2. There's another burden of danger more than the rest, and that you shall find in Numb. 4.17. And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying, Cut ye not eff the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites, but thus do unto them that they may live and not die: When they approach unto the most holy things, Aaron and his Sons shall go in and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden; but they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die. Mark this text: saith the Lord to Moses and Aaron, Cut ye not off the tribe of the family of the Kohathites from among the Levites. Cut them not off, why? what had they done? had they done any thing amiss? No, they had not done any thing that provoked God: but the meaning is this; Take a great care of the family of the Kohathites to instruct them in their duty that they were to do; for (saith God) they are in a great deal of danger, being to serve in the most holy things: If they should go in to see the holy things more than God would have them, it is as much as their lives are worth, and therefore if you should but neglect them, and not inform them throughly in their duty, they would be undone: saith God, They are to administer in the most holy things, and if they should but dare to presume to do any thing otherwise than God would have them about those services, it would cost them their lives; and ⟨p. 89⟩therefore be not you careless of them, for if you neglect them you will be a means, of cutting them off. Thus you see the danger that the family of the Kohathites were in; they were preferred before others, but they were in more danger. So you think there are such men in a Parish that bear the sway, and are employed in public service, and they carry all before them; but you consider not their danger. And so the Ministers, they stand in the fore-front of all the spite and malice of ungodly men: indeed God employs them in honourable service, and that service that the Angels would take delight in; but though the service be honourable, above the employment of other works, yet the burden of danger that likewise is greater than the danger of men that are in an inferior condition. Now when the Soul comes to get wisdom from Christ to think of the danger that it is in, then it will be content in that low estate in which it is.
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