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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 8: SERMON, VIII. at Stepney. Sept. 21. 1645.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I Mentioned divers things the last day to set out the evil of discontent; I shall name Two or Three more.
Sixthly, It is below a Christian in this, Because its below those helps that a Christian hath more than others have; they have the Promises to help them that others have not; its not so much to have a Nabal have his heart sink, because he hath nothing but the Creature to uphold him, but its much for a Christian that hath Promises and Ordinances to uphold his spirit which others have not.
Seventhly, Its below the expectation that God hath of Christians, for God expects not only that they should be patient in afflictions, but that they should rejoice and triumph in them: ⟨p. 133⟩now Christians, when God expects this from you, for you not so much as to have attained to contentedness under afflictions, Oh this is beneath the expectation of God from you.
Seventhly, Its below the expectation that God hath of Christians, for God expects not onely that they should be patient in afflictions, but that they should rejoyce and triumph in them: ⟨p. 133⟩now Christians, when God expects this from you, for you not so much as to have attained to contentedness under afflictions, Oh this is beneathe the expectation of God from you.