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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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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 ⟨p. 90⟩others? No thinks he, I have less, and I am to give the less account: So your account in comparison of the Ministers and Magistrates will be nothing; you are to give an account of your own Souls, and so are they; but you are to give an account for your own family and so are they; but you are not to give account for Congregations, and for Towns, and Cities, and Countries. You think of Princes and Kings, Oh! what a glorious condition they are in. But what do you think of a King to give account for all the disorder, and wickedness in a Kingdom that he possibly might have prevented? What abundance of Glory might a Prince bring to God if so be that he bent his soul and all his thoughts to lift up the Name of God in a Kingdom; now what God looses for want of this, that King, Prince, or Governor he must give an account for. It's a speech of Chrysostom in that place of the Hebrews, where it's said that men must give an account for their Souls, he wonders that any men in public place can be saved, because their account is so great that they are to give. And I remember I have read a speech of Philip that was King of Spain (though the story saith of him, that he had such a Natural conscience, that he profest he would not do any thing against his conscience, no not in secret for the gaining of a world, yet when this man was to die) Oh saith he, that I had never been a King; Oh that I had lived a solitary and private life all my days; then should I have died a great deal more securely, I should with more confidence have gone before the Throne of God to give my account: but here's the fruit of my Kingdom, that I had all the glory of it, it hath made my account to be harder to give to God: and thus he cries out when he was to die.
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