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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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how low and beneath this condition is a murmuring and discontented heart for want of some outward comforts here in this world: How unseemly is it that thou shouldest be a slave to every cross, that every affliction shall be able to say to thy soul, Bow down to us: We accounted that a great slavery, when men would say to our souls, Bow down: As the cruel Prelates were wont to do in imposing things upon mens consciences, they did in effect say, Let your consciences, your souls bow down to us, that we may tread upon them: that is the greatest slavery in the world, that one man should say to another, let your consciences, your souls bow down that we may tread upon them; but wilt thou suffer every affliction to say, bow down that we may tread upon thee? Truly its so, when thy heart is overcome with murmuring and discontent: Know that those afflictions which have caused thee to murmur, have said to thee, Bow down that we may tread upon thee; nay, not afflictions, but the very Devil doth prevail against you in this: Oh! how beneath is this to the happy estate that God hath raised a Christian unto! What! the son of a King shall he have every base fellow to come and bid him bow down that he may tread upon his neck? thus doest thou in every affliction: the affliction, the cross, and trouble that doth befall thee, saith, Bow down that we may come and tread upon thee.
Thirdly, Murmuring its below the spirit of a Christian. Below his Spirit, the spirit of every Christian should be like the spirit of his father; every father loves to see his spirit in his child, loves to see his Image, not his Image of his body only, to say, here's a child for all the world like the father, but he hath the spirit of his father too: a father that is a man of spirit, Loves to see his spirit in his child, rather than the feature of his Body: Oh the Lord that is our Father, loves to see his spirit in us: Great men love to see great spirits in their children, and the great God loves to see a great spirit in his Children; we are one Spirit with God, and with Christ, and one Spirit with the holy Ghost, therefore we should have a spirit that might manifest the Glory of the Father, Son, and holy Ghost in our spirits; ⟨p. 128⟩[…] ⟨p. 129⟩