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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 4: The Fourth CONSIDERATION.
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The Fourth CONSIDERATION.
Consider the way of God towards all creatures, God carries on all creatures in a vicissitude of several conditions; as thus, we have not always Summer, but Winter succeeds Summer; we have not always day, but day and night; we have not always fair weather, but fair and foul; the vegetive creatures do not always flourish, but the sap is in the root, and they seem as if they were dead: there's a vicissitude of all things in the world: the Sun doth not shine always to us here, but there is darkness comes after light; now seeing God hath so ordered things with all creatures, that there is a mixture of conditions, why should we think it much that there should be a vicissitude of conditions with us, sometimes in a way of prosperity, and sometimes in a way of affliction.
The Fifth CONSIDERATION.
A further Consideration is this. The Creatures do suffer for us, why should not we be willing to suffer, to be serviceable to God? God subjects other creatures, they are fain to lose their lives for us, to lose what ever beauty and excellency they have to be serviceable to us, why should not we be willing to part with any