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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.
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sometimes in your discontent you will be ready to swear (it may be) do you swear in your discontent? So doth God swear against you for your discontent. And what was it that God would do unto them? ver. 29, 30. Doubtless your carcasses shall fall in the wilderness, and you shall not come into the Land concerning which I sware, to make you dwell therein: as if God ⟨p. 143⟩should say, if I have any life in me, your lives shall go for it, as I live it shall cost you your lives. A discontented murmuring fit of yours may cost you your lives. You see how it provokes God, there is more evil in it than you are aware of, it may cost you your lives, and therefore look to your selves, and learn to be humbled at the very beginnings of such distempers in the heart. So in Psal. 106.24, 25. Yea, they despised the pleasant Land, they believed not his word; but murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord; therefore he lifted up his hand against them to overthrow them in the wilderness. Here are divers things observable in this Scripture.
sometimes in your discontent you will be ready to swear (it may be) do you swear in your discontent? So doth God swear against you for your discontent. And what was it that God would do unto them? ver. 29, 30. Doubtless your carkasses shall fall in the wilderness, and you shall not come into the Land concerning which I sware, to make you dwell therein: as if God ⟨p. 143⟩should say, if I have any life in me, your lives shall go for it, as I live it shall cost you your lives. A discontented murmuring fit of yours may cost you your lives. You see how it provokes God, there is more evil in it than you are aware of, it may cost you your lives, and therefore look to your selves, and learn to be humbled at the very beginnings of such distempers in the heart. So in Psal. 106.24, 25. Yea, they despised the pleasant Land, they believed not his word; but murmured in their tents, and hearkned not unto the voice of the Lord; therefore he lifted up his hand against them to overthrow them in the wilderness. Here are divers things observable in this Scripture.