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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 6: SERMON, VI. at Stepney. Aug. 31. 1645.
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The Ninth and last Lesson that Christ teaches those that he doth instruct in this Art of Contentment, It is the right knowledge of Gods Providence, and therein are these four things.
1. The Universality of Providence, that the soul must be throughly instructed in to come to this Art, to understand the Universality of Providence, that is; how the Providence of God goes through the whole world, extends it self to every thing: Not only that God by his providence doth rule the world, and govern all things in general, but that it reaches to every particular, not only to Kingdoms, to order the great affairs of Kingdoms, but it reaches to every mans Family, it reaches to every person in the Family, it reaches to every condition, yea, to every passage, to every thing that falls out concerning thee in every particular, not one hair falls from thy head, not a Sparrow to the ground without the providence of God. There's nothing befalls thee, good or evil, but there is a providence of the Infinite Eternal First-being in that thing, and therein indeed is Gods Infiniteness, that it reaches to the least things, to the least worm that is under thy feet: Then much more it reaches unto thee that art a rational Creature, the Providence of God is more special towards rational Creatures than any others: The understanding in a spiritual ⟨p. 95⟩way the universality of providence in every particular passage from morning to night every day; that there's not any thing that doth befall thee, but there's a hand of God in it, it is from God, it is a mighty furtherance to Contentment. Every man will grant the truth of the thing that it is so, but as the Apostle saith in Heb. 11.3. By faith we understand that the worlds were made, by faith we understand it; why by faith? we can understand by reason that no finite thing can be from it self, And therefore that the world could not be of it self, but we can understand it by saith in another manner than by reason. So whatsoever we understand of God in way of providence, yet when Christ doth take us into his School we come to understand it by faith in a better manner than we do by reason.