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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 7: SERMON, VII. at Stepney. Sept. 7. 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.
There's these Three things in this Use of humiliation of the soul for the want of this Grace of Contentment.
For the first, now at this time. The great evil that there is in a murmuring discontented heart.
In the first place, This thy murmuring and discontentedness it argues, much corruption that is in the soul; as Contentment argues much Grace, and strong Grace, and beautiful Grace? so this argues much Corruption, and strong Corruption, and very vile Corruption in thy heart. As it is in a mans body, If a mans body be of that temper that every scratch of a pin makes his flesh to rankle and to be a sore, you will say, surely this mans body is very corrupt, his blood and flesh is corrupt that every scratch of a pin shall make it rankle, so it is in thy spirit; if every little trouble and affliction shall make thee discontented and make thee murmur, and even cause thy spirit within thee to rankle; or as it is in a wound of a mans body, the evil of a wound it is not so much in the largness of the wound, and in the abundance of blood that comes out of the wound, but in the inflammation that there is in it, or in a fretting and corroding humour that is in the wound; an unskilful man when he comes and sees a large wound in the flesh, looks upon it as a dangerous wound. And when he sees a great deal of blood gush out, he thinks these are the evils of it, but when a Chirurgeon comes and sees a great gash, saith he, this will be healed within a few days, but there's a less wound and there's an inflammation or a fretting humour that is in it, and this will cost time (saith he) to cure, so that he doth not lay Balsam and healing Salves upon it, but his great care is to get out the fretting humour, or inflammation, so that the thing that must heal this wound it is some drink to purge? But (saith the patient) what good will this do to my wound? You give me somewhat to drink, and my wound is in my arm, or in my leg, what good will this ⟨p. 120⟩