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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.
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So in a holy gracious way should a soul say, Well, this affliction that I am brought into, it is by the hand of God, and I am content to be here till God brings me out himself. God doth require at our hands, that we should not be willing to come out till he comes and fetches us out. In Josh. 4.10. you have a notable history there that may very well serve our purpose; we read of the Priests, that the Priests bare the Ark and stood in the midst of Jordan: you know when the children of Israel went into the Land of Canaan they went through the River of Jordan: Now the going through the river Jordan was a very dangerous thing, only God bad them to go, they might have been afraid that the water might have come in upon them: but mark, it is said, The Priests that bare the Ark stood in the midst of Jordan till every thing was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to speak unto the People, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua, and the People hasted and passed over: And it came to pass when all the people were clean passed over, that the Ark of the Lord passed over, and the Priests in the presence of the people. Now it was Gods dispose that all the people should pass over first, that they should be safe upon the land; but the Priests they must stand still till all the people be passed over, then they must have leave to go, but they must stay till God would have them go, stay in all that danger, for certainly in reason and sense there was a great deal of danger in staying: for the Text saith, the people hasted over, but the Priests they must stay till the people be gone, stay till God calls them out from that place of danger; and so many times it doth prove that God is pleased to dispose of things so that the Ministers must stay longer in danger than the people ⟨p. 25⟩and Magistrates and those in public place, which should make people to be satisfied and contented with a lower condition that God hath put them into: Though your condition be low, yet you are not in that danger that those in that are in a higher condition; God calls them in public place to stand longer in the gap and place of danger than other people, but we must be content to stay even in Jordan till the Lord shall be pleased to call us out.
So in a holy gracious way should a soul say, Well, this affliction that I am brought into, it is by the hand of God, and I am content to be here till God brings me out himself. God doth require at our hands, that we should not be willing to come out till he coms and fetches us out. In