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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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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⟩[…] ⟨p. 130⟩that's the spirit of a Christian indeed. The spirit of a Christian should be a Lyon-like spirit, as Jesus Christ is the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah (so he is called) so we should manifest somewhat of the Lyon-like Spirit of Jesus Christ; he manifested his Lyon-like Spirit in passing through all afflictions and troubles whatsoever, without any murmuring against God. When he came to drink that bitter cup, and even the dregs of it, he prayed to God (indeed) that if it were possible it might pass from him, but presently, Not my will, but thy will be done: As soon as ever he did mention the passing of the cup from him (though it were the most dreadful cup that ever was drunk since the world began,) yet at the mentioning of it, not my will, but thy will be done; here Christ showed a Lyon-like Spirit, in going through all kind of afflictions whatsoever without any murmuring against God in them: Now a murmuring spirit is a base dejected spirit, cross and contrary to the Spirit of a Christian, and its very base. I remember that the Heathens account it very base, Plutarch doth report of a certain people that did use to manifest their disdain to men that were over-much dejected by any affliction, they did condemn them to this punishment, To wear woman's clothes all their days, or such a space of time at least they should go in women's clothes in token of shame and disgrace to them; because they had such effeminate spirits, they thought it against a manlike spirit, and therefore seeing they did un-man themselves they should go as women.