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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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First, That which we spoke to before, How a murmuring heart doth slight Gods mercies, so it is here, They despised the pleasant Land: and that a murmuring heart is contrary to faith, they believed not his word, but (saith the text) they murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord. Many men and women will hearken to the voice of their own base murmuring hearts, that will not hearken to the voice of the Lord; if you would hearken to the voice of the Lord, there would not be such murmuring as there is: but mark what follows upon it, you may not think to please your selves in your murmuring discontentedness, and think that no evil shall come of it; Therefore he lifted up his hand against them to overthrow them: you that are discontented, you lift up your hearts against God, and you cause God to lift up his hand against you; perhaps God lays his finger upon you softly in some afflictions that are upon you in your families or elsewhere, and you cannot bear the hand of God that lies upon you as tenderly as a tender-hearted Nurse that lays her hand upon the child, you cannot bear the tender hand of God that is upon you in a lesser affliction; it were just with God to lift up his hand against you in another manner of affliction; Oh a murmuring spirit provokes God exceedingly. There is another place in 16. of Numb. compare the 41. vers. and the 46. vers. together, But on the morrow all the Congregation of the Children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord: And mark in the 46. verse, And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a Censer and put fire therein from off the Altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto ⟨p. 144⟩the Congregation and make an atonement for them, for there is wrath gone out from the Lord, the plague is begun; mark how Gods wrath is kindled; in the 41. verse, the Congregation had murmured; and they murmured but against Moses and Aaron, (perhaps you murmur more directly against God) and that was against God in murmuring against Gods Ministers, it was against God but not so directly; but it may be the murmuring of your hearts is more directly against Gods dealings with you: if you murmur against those that God makes instruments (because you have not every thing that you would have) as against the Parliament, or such and such that are public Instruments, its against God;
First, That which we spoke to before, How a murmuring heart doth slight Gods mercies, so it is here, They despised the pleasant Land: and that a murmuring heart is contrary to faith, they believed not his word, but (saith the text) they murmred in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord. Many men and women will hearken to the voice of their own base murmuring hearts, that will not hearken to the voice of the Lord; if you would hearken to the voice of the Lord, there would not be such murmuring as there is: but mark what follows upon it, you may not think to please your selves in your murmuring discontentedness, and think that no evil shall come of it; Therefore he lifted up his hand against them to overthrow them: you that are discontented, you lift up your hearts against God, and you cause God to lift up his hand against you; perhaps God laies his finger upon you softly in some afflictions that are upon you in your families or elsewhere, and you cannot bear the hand of God that lies upon you as tenderly as a tender-hearted Nurse that laies her hand upon the childe, you cannot bear the tender hand of God that is upon you in a lesser affliction; it were just with God to lift up his hand against you in another manner of affliction; Oh a murmuring spirit provokes God exceedingly. There is another place in 16. of Numb. compare the 41. vers. and the 46. vers. together, But on the morrow all the Congregation of the Children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord: And mark in the 46. verse, And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a Censer and put fire therein from off the Altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto