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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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2. The efficacy that there is in providence; that is, That the providence of God goes on in all things with strength and power, and it is not to be altered by our power; let us be discontented and vexed and troubled, and fret, and rage, yet we must not think to alter the course of providence by our discontent. Some of Jobs friends said to him, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall the rock be removed out of his place? Job 18.4. when they saw him to be impatient. So I may say to every discontented impatient heart, What, shall the providence of God change its course for thee? Dost thou think it such a weak thing, that because it doth not please thee, it must alter its course? Be thou content or not content, the providence of God will go on, it hath an efficacy of power and virtue, to carry all things before it. Canst thou make one hair black or white with all the stir that thou keepest? When you are in a Ship at Sea that hath all her Sails spread with a full gale of wind, and swiftly sailing; Can you make it stand still with running up and down in the Ship? No more can you make the providence of God to alter and change its course with your vexing and fretting, but it will go on with power do what thou canst. Do but understand the power and efficacy of providence and it will be a mighty means for the helping to learn this lesson of Contentment.
2. The efficacy that there is in providence; that is, That the providence of God goes on in all things with strength and power, and it is not to be altered by our power; let us be discontented and vext and troubled, and fret, and rage, yet we must not think to alter the course of providence by our discontent. Some of Jobs friends said to him, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall the rock be removed out of his place? Job 18.4. when they saw him to be impatient. So I may say to every discontented impatient heart, What, shall the providence of God change its course for thee? Do'st thou think it such a weak thing, that because it doth not please thee, it must alter its course? Be thou content or not content, the providence of God will go on, it hath an efficacy of power and vertue, to carry all things before it. Canst thou make one hair black or white with all the stir that thou keepest? When you are in a Ship at Sea that hath all her Sails spread with a full gale of wind, and swiftly sailing; Can you make it stand still with running up and down in the Ship? No more can you make the providence of God to alter and change its course with your vexing and fretting, but it will go on with power do what thou canst. Do but understand the power and efficacy of providence and it will be a mighty means for the helping to learn this lesson of Contentment.