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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.
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But now you shall have others that have an affliction upon them, that have not this good temper in their hearts, their afflictions are very cold upon them, and grievous; and it may be if you bring them some external arguments, somewhat from without, as the fire that warms the clothes, perhaps they will be quiet for a while: but alas, wanting a gracious disposition within in their own hearts, that warmth will not hold long. The warmth of a fire, that is, a Contentment that comes merely from external arguments will not hold ⟨p. 13⟩long, but that holds that doth come from the gracious temper of the Spirit. It is from the frame and the disposition of the spirit of a man or woman. There's the true Contentment. But this we shall speak to further in the opening of the Mystery of Contentment.
But now you shall have others that have an affliction upon them, that have not this good temper in their hearts, their afflictions are very cold upon them, and grievous; and it may be if you bring them some external arguments, somwhat from without, as the fire that warms the cloaths, perhaps they will be quiet for a while: but alas, wanting a gracious disposition within in their own hearts, that warmth will not hold long. The warmth of a fire, that is, a Contentment that comes meerly from external arguments will not hold ⟨p. 13⟩long, but that holds that doth come from the gracious temper of the Spirit. It is from the frame and the disposition of the spirit of a man or woman. There's the true Contentment. But this we shall speak to further in the opening of the Mystery of Contentment.
The Third thing is this, It is the frame of Spirit that shows the habitualness of this grace of Contentment. Contentment is not merely one act, a flash in a good mood; you shall have many men and women, that take them in some good mood and they will be very quiet; but this will not hold, this is not a constant way, there is not a constant tenor of their spirits to be holy and gracious under affliction: But I say, It is the quiet frame of spirit, by that I mean, The habitual disposition of their Souls, that it is not only at this time, and the other time when you take men and women in a good mood: but it is the constant tenor and temper of the heart; that is a Christian that hath learned this lesson of Contentment, that in the constant tenor and temper of heart is contented, and can carry its self quietly in a constant way, or else it is worth nothing; for there is no body that is so furious in their discontent, but will be quiet in some good mood or other. Now First, it is a heart-business; Secondly, it is the heart quiet; and then Thirdly, it is the frame of the heart.