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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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And here (by the way) we may see a great deal of evil that there is in discontent, for thou wouldest have Gods providence altered in such and such a particular, indeed if it were only in that particular, and that had reference to nothing else it were not so much, but by thy desire to have thy will in such a particular, it may be thou wouldest cross God in a thousand things that he hath to bring about, because it's possible there may be a thousand things depend upon that one thing that thou wouldest fain ⟨p. 97⟩have to be otherwise than it is; just as if a child should cry out and say, Let but that one wheel stop; though he saith but one wheel, yet if that stop, it is as much as if he should say, they must all stop: So in providence, let but this one passage of Providence stop, it is as much as if a thousand stopped: Let me therefore be quiet and content, for though I be crossed in some one particular, God attains his end, at least his end may be furthered in a thousand things by this one thing that I am crossed in; therefore let a man consider, this is an act of providence, and how do I know what God is about to do, and how many things depend upon this providence? Now we are willing to suffer our friends will to be crossed in one thing, so that our friend may attain to what he desires in a thousand things: If thou hast a love and friendship to God, be willing to be crossed in some few things, that the Lord may have his Work go on in the universal, in a thousand of other things. Now that's the third thing to be understood in Gods providence, that Christ doth learn those that he teacheth in the Art of Contentment.
And here (by the way) we may see a great deal of evil that there is in discontent, for thou wouldest have Gods providence altered in such and such a particular, indeed if it were onely in that particular, and that had reference to nothing else it were not so much, but by thy desire to have thy will in such a particular, it may be thou wouldest cross God in a thousand things that he hath to bring about, because it's possible there may be a thousand things depend upon that one thing that thou wouldest fain ⟨p. 97⟩have to be otherwise than it is; just as if a childe should cry out and say, Let but that one wheel stop; though he saith but one wheel, yet if that stop, it is as much as if he should say, they must all stop: So in providence, let but this one passage of Providence stop, it is as much as if a thousand stopt: Let me therefore be quiet and content, for though I be crost in some one particular, God attains his end, at least his end may be furthered in a thousand things by this one thing that I am crost in; therefore let a man consider, this is an act of providence, and how do I know what God is about to do, and how many things depend upon this providence? Now we are willing to suffer our friends will to be crost in one thing, so that our friend may attain to what he desires in a thousand things: If thou hast a love and friendship to God, be willing to be crost in some few things, that the Lord may have his Work go on in the universal, in a thousand of other things. Now that's the third thing to be understood in Gods providence, that Christ doth learn those that he teacheth in the Art of Contentment.