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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.
How many of you may have your consciences condemn you of this, that you in the time of your afflictions have sought to shift for your selves by ways that have been sinful against God, and your discontent was the bottom and ground of it? If you would avoid shiftings for your selves by wicked ways, labour to mortify this sin of discontent, to mortify it at the root.
How many of you may have your consciences condemn you of this, that you in the time of your afflictions have sought to shift for your selves by wayes that have been sinful against God, and your discontent was the bottom and ground of it? If you would avoid shiftings for your selves by wicked ways, labor to mortifie this sin of discontent, to mortifie it at the root.
The Eight evil that there is in murmuring and discontent is this, There is a great deal of folly, extreme folly in a discontented heart, its a foolish sin. I shall open the folly of it in many particulars.
The Eight evil that there is in murmuring and discontent is this, There is a great deal of folly, extream folly in a discontented heart, its a foolish sin. I shall open the folly of it in many particulars.
1. It takes away the present comfort of what you have, because you have not somewhat that you would have. What a foolish thing is this, that because I have not what I would have, I will not enjoy the comfort of what I have? Do not you account this folly in your children, you give them some victuals and they are not contented, perhaps (they say) its not enough, they cry for more, and if you do not presently give them more they will throw away that they have, and though you account that folly in your Children, yet you deal thus with God; God gives you many mercies, but you see others have more mercies ⟨p. 139⟩