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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.
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Doct. That to be well skilled in the mystery of Christian Contentment is the Duty, Glory, and Excellency of a Christian.
Doct. That to be well skil'd in the mystery of Christian Contentment is the Duty, Glory, and Excellency of a Christian.
This Evangelical truth is held forth sufficiently in Scripture; yet take one or two parallel places more for the confirmation of it. 1 Tim. 6.6. and 8. you have both the duty expressed, and the glory thereof: Having food and raiment (saith verse 8.) let us therewith be content, there is the duty; But godliness with Contentment is great gain, verse 6. there is the glory and excellency of it: as if godliness were not gain except there were Contentment withal. The like exhortation you have in Heb. 13.5. Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with such things as you have. I do not find any Apostle or Writer of Scripture treat so much of the spiritual mystery of Contentment as this our Apostle hath done throughout his Epistles.
This Evangelical truth is held forth sufficiently in Scripture; yet take one or two parallel places more for the confirmation of it. 1 Tim. 6.6. and 8. you have both the duty exprest, and the glory thereof: Having food and raiment (saith verse 8.) let us therewith be content, there is the duty; But godliness with Contentment is great gain, verse 6. there is the glory and excellency of it: as if godliness were not gain except there were Contentment withal. The like exhortation you have in Heb. 13.5. Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with such things as you have. I do not find any Apostle or Writer of Scripture treat so much of the spiritual mystery of Contentment as this our Apostle hath done throughout his Epistles.