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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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In the first place, By Contentment we come to give God that Worship that is due to him: 1It is a special part of Divine Worship that we owe to God, If we be content in a Christian way according as hath been opened to you; I say it is a special part of the Divine Worship that the Creature owes to the infinite Creator, in that I do render that respect that is due from me to the Creator. The words that the Greeks have that signifies to Worship, it is as much as to come and crouch before another, as a Dog should come crouching unto you, and be willing to lie down at your feet; so the Creature in the apprehension of its own baseness, and the infinite Excellency that there is in God above it; when it comes to worship God, it comes and crouches to this God, and it lies down at the feet of God, then doth the Creature worship God. When you see a dog come crouching to you, and you can make him with holding your hand over him to lie down at your feet; then consider, thus should you do before the Lord, you should come crouching to him, and lie down at his feet even upon your backs or bellies, to lie down in the dust before him, so as to be willing that he should do with you what he will; as sometimes you may turn a dog this way and that way, up and down with the hand, and there he lies before you, according to your showing him with your hand: So when the Creature shall come and lie down thus before ⟨p. 102⟩the Lord, then a Creature worships God, doth render up that worship that is due to God. Now in what disposition of heart do we thus crouch to God more, then when we have this Contentation in all conditions that God disposeth us unto? This is a crouching unto Gods dispose, to be like the poor woman of Canaan, when Christ said, it is not fit to give Children's meat to dogs, but (saith she) the dogs have crumbs. I am a dog I confess, I but let me have but a crumb. And so when the soul shall be in such a disposition as to lie down and say, Lord, I am but as a dog, yet let me have a crumb, then doth it highly honour God. It may be some of you have not your table spread as others have, but God gives you crumbs;
In the first place, By Contentment we come to give God that Worship that is due to him: 1It is a special part of Divine Worship that we owe to God, If we be content in a Christian way according as hath been opened to you; I say it is a special part of the Divine Worship that the Creature ows to the infinite Creator, in that I do render that respect that is due from me to the Creator. The words that the Greeks have that signifies to Worship, it is as much as to come and crouch before another, as a Dog should come crouching unto you, and be willing to lie down at your feet; so the Creature in the apprehension of its own baseness, and the infinite Excellency that there is in God above it; when it comes to worship God, it comes and crouches to this God, and it lies down at the feet of God, then doth the Creature worship God. When you see a dog come crouching to you, and you can make him with holding your hand over him to lie down at your feet; then consider, thus should you do before the Lord, you should come crouching to him, and lie down at his feet even upon your backs or bellies, to lie down in the dust before him, so as to be willing that he should do with you what he will; as sometimes you may turn a dog this way and that way, up and down with the hand, and there he lies before you, according to your shewing him with your hand: So when the Creature shall come and lie down thus before