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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 1: SERMON, I. at Stepney. July 27. 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.
Therewith to be content] The word which we render Content here,1 hath in the Original much elegance and fullness of signification in it. In strictness of phrase it is only attributed unto God, who hath styled himself God All-sufficient, as resting wholly satisfied in and with himself alone; but he is pleased freely to communicate of his fullness to the creature, so that from God in Christ, the Saints receive grace for grace, Joh. 1.16. In so much that there is in them an answerableness of the same grace in their proportion that is in Christ. And in this sense Paul saith, I have a Self-sufficiency, as the word notes.
Therewith to be content] The word which we render Content here,1 hath in the Original much elegancy and fulness of signification in it. In strictness of phrase it is only attributed unto God, who hath stiled himself God Alsufficient, as resting wholly satisfied in and with himself alone; but hee is pleased freely to communicate of his fulness to the creature, so that from God in Christ, the Saints receive grace for grace, Joh. 1.16. In so much that there is in them an answerableness of the same grace in their proportion that is in Christ. And in this sense Paul saith, I have a Self-sufficiency, as the word notes.
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