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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 13: The Thirteenth PLEA.
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The Thirteenth PLEA.
There's one Plea more that may be named, and that is this, say some, Though I confess my affliction is somewhat hard, and I feel some trouble within me, yet I thank God I break not out in discontented ways to the dishonour of God, I keep in, although I have much ado with my own heart.
There's one Plea more that may be named, and that is this, say some, Though I confess my affliction is somewhat hard, and I feel some trouble within me, yet I thank God I break not out in discontented ways to the dishonor of God, I keep in, although I have much ado with my own heart.
Oh! do not satisfy your selves with that, for the distempers of your hearts, and their sinful workings, are as words before God, My soul be silent to God; That we spake of in the beginning ⟨p. 186⟩of the opening of this Scripture, it is not enough for thy tongue to be silent, but thy soul must be silent, there may be a sullen discontentedness of heart as well as a discontentedness manifested in words; and if thou dost but mortify that inward sullenness, if thou beest afflicted a little more, it will break forth at last.
Oh! do not satisfie your selves with that, for the distempers of your hearts, and their sinful workings, are as words before God, My soul be silent to God; That we spake of in the beginning ⟨p. 186⟩of the opening of this Scripture, it is not enough for thy tongue to be silent, but thy soul must be silent, there may be a sullen discontentedness of heart as well as a discontentedness manifested in words; and if thou dost but mortifie that inward sullenness, if thou beest afflicted a little more, it will break forth at last.