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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Object. The Ships move upon the Sea, and that is not still.
Answ. But the Seas they move upon that which is still and immovable, there is nothing moves but it hath something immovable that doth uphold it: the wheels in a Coach they move up and down, but the Axle-tree that moves not up and down; so it is with the heart of man. As they say of the Heaven, it moves up and down upon a Pole that is immovable; so it is in the heart of man, if he will move to do service to God he must have a steady heart with him, that must help him to move in the service of God, those that have unsteady disquiet spirits that have no steadfastness at all in them, they are not fit to do service for God, but such as have steadfastness in their spirits they are men and women fit to do any service, and that's the reason that when the Lord hath any great work for any servants of his to do, usually he doth first quiet their spirits, he doth bring their spirits into a quiet sweet frame to be contented with any thing, and then he sets them about employment.
Answ. But the Seas they move upon that which is still and immoveable, there is nothing moves but it hath something immoveable that doth uphold it: the wheels in a Coach they move up and down, but the Axle-tree that moves not up and down; so it is with the heart of man. As they say of the Heaven, it moves up and down upon a Pole that is immoveable; so it is in the heart of man, if he will move to do service to God he must have a steady heart with him, that must help him to move in the service of God, those that have unsteady disquiet spirits that have no stedfastness at all in them, they are not fit to do service for God, but such as have stedfastness in their spirits they are men and women fit to do any service, and that's the reason that when the Lord hath any great work for any servants of his to do, usually he doth first quiet their spirits, he doth bring their spirits into a quiet sweet frame to be contented with any thing, and then he sets them about imployment.