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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 10 › Plea 10: The Tenth PLEA.
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There's another reasoning that some may have, and that is this. Oh! I could bear much affliction in some other way, but this is very grievous to me; the unsettledness of my condition; though my condition were but low, yet if it were in a settled way, I could be content, but it is so unconstant, and so unsettled, that I can never know what to trust to, but am tossed up and down in the world in an unsettled condition, and this is hard to be content with.
There's another reasoning that some may have, and that is this. Oh! I could bear much affliction in some other way, but this is very grievous to me; the unsetledness of my condition; though my condition were but low, yet if it were in a setled way, I could be content, but it is so unconstant, and so unsetled, that I can never know what to trust to, but am tost up and down in the world in an unsetled condition, and this is hard to be content with.
Now to that I answer, First, that the Psalmist saith, That every man in his settled estate is vanity, in Psalm 36.5. Your books have it, Every man at his best estate is vanity, the word is, his settled Estate; you think if you were but settled, Oh then you could be content, but the truth is, man in his settled estate is vanity.
Now to that I answer, First, that the Psalmist saith, That every man in his setled estate is vanity, in Psalm 36.5. Your books have it, Every man at his best estate is vanity, the word is, his setled Estate; you think if you were but setled, Oh then you could be content, but the truth is, man in his setled estate is vanity.