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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.
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2. Yea, It's mighty contrary to the sight of the infinite excellency and glory of Jesus Christ, and the things of the Gospel. What am I that soul that the Lord hath discovered such infinite Excellency of Jesus Christ to? and yet what shall I think such a little affliction to be so grievous to me, when I have had the sight of such glory in Christ that is more worth than ten thousand worlds? (for so will a true convert say) Oh! the Lord at such a time hath given me that sight of Christ that I would not be without for ten thousand thousand worlds; but hath God given thee that, and wilt thou be discontent for a trifle in comparison of that?
3. A third work when God brings the soul home to himself it is, By taking the heart off from the Creature, the disengaging the heart from all Greature-comforts: That is the Third work ordinarily that the soul may perceive of its self. It's true, Gods Work may be altogether in the seeds in him, but in the several actings of the soul in turning to God it may perceive these things in it, the disengagement of the heart from the Creature, that's the calling off the soul from the world, whom the Lord hath called he hath justified: What's the calling of the ⟨p. 124⟩soul but this, the soul that was before seeking for Contentment in the world, and cleaving to the Creature, now the Lord calls the soul out of the world, and saith, Oh soul, thy happiness is not here, thy rest is not here, thy happiness is elsewhere, and thy heart must be loosened from all these things that are here below in the world; and this is the work of God in the soul to disengage the heart from the Creature, and how contrary is a murmuring heart to such a thing; a thing that is glued to another you cannot take off, but you must rend it; so its a sign thy heart is glued to the world, that when God would take thee off, thy heart rends, if God by an affliction should come to take any thing in the world from thee, if thou canst part from it with ease without rending, its a sign then that thy heart is not glued to the world.
3. A third work when God brings the soul home to himself it is, By taking the heart off from the Creature, the disingaging the heart from all Greature-comforts: That is the Third work ordinarily that the soul may perceive of its self. It's true, Gods Work may be altogether in the seeds in him, but in the several actings of the soul in turning to God it may perceive these things in it, the disingagement of the heart from the Creature, that's the calling off the soul from the world, whom the Lord hath called he hath justified: What's the calling of the