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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
O not such cause saith the troubled spirit, O then there is no cause that any should be disquieted; there was never any such affliction as I have! and a hundred things they have to put off what is said to them, so as you cannot so much as get into their judgments to satisfy them; but there is a great deal of hope of Contentment, if once your judgments come to be satisfied, that you can sit down and say in your judgments, I see cause to be contented: but though you have gotten thus far, yet you may have much to do with your hearts afterward: for there is such unruliness in our thoughts and affections, that our judgments are not always able to rule our thoughts and affections, and that makes me to say, that Contentment is an inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, that is, the whole soul, Judgment, Thoughts, Will, Affections, and all are satisfied and quiet. I suppose in the very opening this, you begin to see it is a lesson that you had need learn, and it is not a thing soon got, if Contentment be such a thing as this is.
O not such cause saith the troubled spirit, O then there is no cause that any should be disquieted; there was never any such affliction as I have! and a hundred things they have to put off what is said to them, so as you cannot so much as get into their judgments to satisfie them; but there is a great deal of hope of Contentment, if once your judgments come to be satisfied, that you can sit down and say in your judgments, I see cause to be contented: but though you have gotten thus far, yet you may have much to do with your hearts afterward: for there is such unruliness in our thoughts and affections, that our judgments are not alwaies able to rule our thoughts and affections, and that makes me to say, that Contentment is an inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, that is, the whol soul, Judgment, Thoughts, Will, Affections, and all are satisfied and quiet. I suppose in the very opening this, you begin to see it is a lesson that you had need learn, and it is not a thing soon got, if Contentment be such a thing as this is.
The second thing is this, which is very observable, That spiritual Contentment comes from the frame of the Soul. A man or woman that is contented in a right way, their contentment doth not so much come from outward arguments, or any outward thing that helps them to be content, as it doth from the disposition of their own hearts; It is the disposition of their own hearts, that causes this Contentment: That brings forth this gracious Contentment, rather than any external thing that