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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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A poor man that is in a low condition, thinks, I am low, and others are raised, but I know not what their burden is: and so, if he be rightly instructed in the School of Christ he comes to be contented.
3. In a prosperous estate there is the burden of Duty. You look only at the sweet and comfort that they have, and the honour and respect that they have that are in a prosperous condition; but you must consider of the duty that they owe to God: God requires more duty at their hands than at yours; you are ready to be discontented that you have not such parts and abilities as such have, but God requires more duty of them that have more parts, God requires more duty of them that have greater estates than of you that have not such estates, Oh! you would fain have the honour, but can you carry the burden of the Duty?
3. In a prosperous estate there is the burden of Duty. You look onely at the sweet and comfort that they have, and the honor and respect that they have that are in a prosperous condition; but you must consider of the duty that they owe to God: God requires more duty at their hands than at yours; you are ready to be discontented that you have not such parts and abilities as such have, but God requires more duty of them that have more parts, God requires more duty of them that have greater estates than of you that have not such estates, Oh! you would fain have the honour, but can you carry the burden of the Duty?
4. The last is, The burden of Account in a prosperous Estate. There is a great account that they are to give to God that enjoy great estates and a prosperous condition: Now we are all Stewards; and one is a Steward to a meaner man, perhaps an ordinary Knight; another is a Steward to a Nobleman, an Earl: now the Steward of the meaner man, he hath not so much as the other hath under his hand: now shall he be discontented because there comes not so much under his hand as under the