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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 › Consideration 3: The Third CONSIDERATION.
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The Third CONSIDERATION.
The Consideration of the abundance of mercies that God bestows, and we enjoy. It is a speech of Luther, (saith he) the Sea of Gods mercy should swallow up all our particular afflictions, name any affliction that is upon thee, there's a Sea of mercy to swallow it up. If you pour a pail full of water on the floor of your house it makes a great show, but if you throw it into the Sea, there is no appearance of it; so afflictions considered in themselves we think they are very great, but let them be considered with the Sea of Gods mercies we do enjoy, then they are not so much, they are nothing in comparison.
The Consideration of the abundance of mercies that God bestows, and we enjoy. It is a speech of Luther, (saith he) the Sea of Gods mercy should swallow up all our particular afflictions, name any affliction that is upon thee, there's a Sea of mercy to swallow it up. If you powre a pail full of water on the floor of your house it makes a great show, but if you throw it into the Sea, there is no appearance of it; so afflictions considered in themselves we think they are very great, but let them be considered with the Sea of Gods mercies we do enjoy, then they are not so much, they are nothing in comparison.