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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. The relation that thou standest in to Jesus Christ, thou art the Spouse of Christ: what! one married to Jesus Christ and yet troubled and discontented. Hast thou not enough in him? doth not Christ say to his Spouse, as Elkanah said to Hannah, (1 Sam. 1.8.) Am not I better to thee than ten sons? So doth not Christ thy Husband say to thee, Am not I better to thee than thousands of riches & comforts? such comforts as thou murmurest for want of; hath not God given thee his Son? and will he not with him give thee all things? hath the love of God been to thee to give thee his Son in way of marriage? why art thou discontented and murmuring? consider thy relation to Jesus Christ ⟨p. 127⟩as thou art a Spouse and married to him, his Person is thine, and so all the riches of Jesus Christ is thine; as the riches of a husband are the wives, and though there are some husbands so vile as the wives may be forced to sue for maintenance; certainly Jesus Christ will never deny maintenance to his Spouse: it's a dishonour for a Husband to have his Wife go whining up and down; what, thou art matched with Christ and art his Spouse and wilt thou murmur now and be discontented in thy spirit? You shall observe among those that are newly matched, when there is discontent between the wife and the husband, their friends will shake their heads and say, they do not meet with that that they did expect, ye see ever since they were married together how the man looks, and the woman looks, they are not so cheerily as they were wont to be, surely (say they) it is like to prove an ill match. But its not so here, it shall not be so between thee and Christ: Oh Jesus Christ doth not love to see his Spouse to have a louring countenance: no man loves to see discontentment in the face of his Wife, surely Christ doth not love to see discontentment in the face of his Spouse.
2. The relation that thou standest in to Jesus Christ, thou art the Spouse of Christ: what! one married to Jesus Christ and yet troubled and discontented. Hast thou not enough in him? doth not Christ say to his Spouse, as Elkanah said to Hannah, (1 Sam. 1.8.) Am not I better to thee than ten sons? So doth not Christ thy Husband say to thee, Am not I better to thee than thousands of riches & comforts? such comforts as thou murmurest for want of; hath not God given thee his Son? and will he not with him give thee all things? hath the love of God been to thee to give thee his Son in way of marriage? why art thou discontented and murmuring? consider thy relation to Jesus Christ