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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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but the sight and sense of sin it is to continue still, that is you are still to be sensible of the burden of sin, as it is against the Holiness and Goodness and Mercy of God unto thee, and the sight of the Excellency of Jesus Christ is to continue, and thy Calling out of the Creature, and the Casting thy soul upon Christ as a King, still receive him day by day, and the Subduing of thy heart, and the Surrendering of thy self up to God in the way of Covenant; now if this were but daily continued, there would be no space nor time for Murmuring to work upon thy heart. That's the Fourth Particular.
but the sight and sense of sin it is to continue still, that is you are still to be sensible of the burthen of sin, as it is against the Holiness and Goodness and Mercy of God unto thee, and the sight of the Excellency of Jesus Christ is to continue, and thy Calling out of the Creature, and the Casting thy soul upon Christ as a King, still receive him day by day, and the Subduing of thy heart, and the Surrendring of thy self up to God in the way of Covenant; now if this were but daily continued, there would be no space nor time for Murmuring to work upon thy heart. Thats the Fourth Particulan.
The Fifth thing in the evil of Discontentment, Murmuring ⟨p. 126⟩and discontentment is exceeding below a Christian: Oh! it is too mean and base a distemper for a Christian to give place to it. Now it's below a Christian in many respects.
1. How below the relation of a Christian? The relation to which thou standest. With what relation (you will say?)