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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 2: At Stepney. Aug. 3. 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.
SERMON II. at Stepney. Aug. 3. 1645.
PHIL. 4.11. For I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
WE have made entrance (you may remember) into the Argument of Christian Contentment. And have opened the words, and showed you what this Christian Contentation is; that is, the inward, quiet, gracious frame of Spirit, freely submitting to, and taking Complacency in Gods dispose in every condition. And therein came to this last thing [In every condition] Now we shall a little enlarge that, and so proceed.
WEE have made entrance (you may remember) into the Argument of Christian Contentment. And have opened the words, and shewed you what this Christian Contentation is; that is, the inward, quiet, gracious frame of Spirit, freely submitting to, and taking Complacency in Gods dispose in every condition. And therein came to this last thing [In every condition] Now we shall a little inlarge that, and so proceed.
1 Submitting to God in what ever Affliction befalls us: for the kind. 2 For the time and continuance of the Affliction. 3 For the variety and changes of Affliction: Let them be what they will, yet there must be a submitting to Gods dispose in every condition.