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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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Then in the second verse, Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink, and Moses said unto them, Why chide you with me? wherefore do you tempt the Lord: And in the third verse, And the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses and said, wherefore ⟨p. 150⟩is this, that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, and our Children, and our Cattle with thirst? So one time after another, still as soon as ever they had received the mercy, then they were a little quieted, but they were not humbled. I bring these Scriptures for this, to show, That if we have not been humbled for murmuring, the next cross that we meet withal we will fall to murmuring again,
Then in the second verse, Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink, and Moses said unto them, Why chide you with me? wherefore do you tempt the Lord: And in the third verse, And the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses and said, wherefore ⟨p. 150⟩is this, that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, and our Children, and our Cattel with thirst? So one time after another, still as soon as ever they had received the mercy, then they were a little quieted, but they were not humbled. I bring these Scriptures for this, to shew, That if we have not been humbled for murmuring, the next cross that we meet withal we will fall to murmuring again,
There are divers Aggravations of this sin of Murmuring, I'll mention but one now, and I shall but begin that. The first Aggravation is this,
There are divers Aggravations of this sin of Murmuring, I'le mention but one now, and I shall but begin that. The first Aggravation is this,