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A77996	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.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.; Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.; Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672.; Simpson, Sidrach, 1600?-1655.; Yates, John, d. ca. 1660.; Adderley, William.	1666 (1666)	Wing B6107B; ESTC R201188	189,505	233

when they are under the power of this sin of murmuring it doth convince them to be ungodly as well as if they were under the power of drunkenness or whoredom or any other sin God will look upon you as ungodly for this sin as well as for any sin whatsoever This one Scripture should make thy heart shake at the thought of the sin of Murmuring Thirdly As it s made a brand of ungodly men so you shal find in Scripture that God counts it rebellion that is contrary to the worship that there was in contentedness that is worshipping of God crouching to God falling down before him even as a dog that would crouch when you hold a staff over him but a Murmuring heart its a rebellious heart and that you shall find if you compare two Scriptures together they are both in the Book of Numb 16.41 But on the morrow saith the text all the congregation of the Children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron saying Ye have killed the people of the Lord They all murmured now compare this with Chap. 17. and verse 10. And the Lord said unto Moses Bring Aarons rod again before the testimony to be kept for a token against the Rebels In the 16. Chap. they murmured against Moses and Aaron and in the 17. Chap. bring the rod of Aaron again before the testimony for a token against the Rebels So that to be a Murmurer and to be a Rebel you see in Scripture phrase is all one it is a rebellion against God as it is the beginning of rebellion and sedition in a Kingdom when the people are discontent and when discontentment comes it grows to murmuring and you can go into no house almost but there is murmuring when men are discontent so that within a little while it breaks forth into sedition or rebellion Murmuring it's but as the smoak of the fire there is first a smoak and smother before the flame breaks forth and so before open rebellion in a Kingdom there is first a smoak of Murmuring and then it breaks forth into open rebellion but because it hath rebellion in the seeds of it therefore it is accounted before the Lord to be rebellion Wilt thou be a Rebel against God When thou feelest thy heart discontented and Murmuring against the dispensations of God towards thee thou shouldest check thy heart thus Oh thou wretched heart what wilt thou be a Rebel against God wilt thou rise in a way of rebellion against the infinite God yet thus thou hast done charge thy heart with this sin of rebellion you that are guilty of this sin of Murmuring you are this day by the Lord charged as being guilty of rebellion against him and God expects that when you go home you should humble your souls before him for this sin that you should charge your souls for being guilty of rebellion against God many of you may say I never thought that I had been a Rebel against God before I thought that I had many infirmities but now I see the Scripture speaks of sin in another manner than men do the Scripture makes men though but murmurers to be Rebels against God Oh this rebellious heart that I have against the Lord that hath manifested it's self in this way of murmuring against the Lord. That 's a third particular in the evil of discontentment A fourth particular in the evil of Discontentment It is a wickedness that is exceeding contrary to Grace and especially contrary to the work of God in bringing of the soul home to himself I know no distemper more opposite and contrary to the Work of God in conversion of a sinner than this is Quest What 's the work of God when he brings a sinner home to himself Answ The usual way is for God to make the soul to see and be sensible of the dreadful evil that there is in sin and the great breach that sin hath made between God and it for certainly Jesus Christ can never be known in his beauty and excellency till the soul know that I do not speak what secret work of the holy Ghost there may be in the soul but before the soul can actually apply Jesus Christ to its self it is impossible but it must come to know the evil of sin and the excellency of Jesus Christ there may be a seed of faith put into the soul but the soul must first know Christ and know sin and be made sensible of it Now how contrary is this sin of murmurring to any such work of God hath God made me see the dreadful evil of sin and made my soul to be sensible of the evil of sin as the greatest burden how can I then be so much troubled for every little affliction Certainly if I saw what the evil of sin was that sight would swallow up all other evils and if I were burdened with the evil of sin it would swallow up all other burdens what am I now murmuring against Gods hand saith such a soul when as a while ago the Lord made me see my self to be a damned wretch and apprehend it as a wonder that I am not in Hell 2. Yea It 's mighty contrary to the sight of the infinite excellency and glory of Jesus Christ and the things of the Gospel What am I that soul that the Lord hath discovered such infinite Excellency of Jesus Christ to and yet what shall I think such a little affliction to be so grievous to me when I have had the sight of such glory in Christ that is more worth than ten thousand worlds for so will a true convert say Oh! the Lord at such a time hath given me that sight of Christ that I would not be without for ten thousand thousand worlds but hath God given thee that and wilt thou be discontent for a trifle in comparison of that 3. A third work when God brings the soul home to himself it is By taking the heart off from the Creature the disingaging the heart from all Greature-comforts That is the Third work ordinarily that the soul may perceive of its self It 's true Gods Work may be altogether in the seeds in him but in the several actings of the soul in turning to God it may perceive these things in it the disingagement of the heart from the Creature that 's the calling off the soul from the world whom the Lord hath called he hath justified What 's the calling of the soul but this the soul that was before seeking for Contentment in the world and cleaving to the Creature now the Lord cals the soul out of the world and saith Oh soul thy happiness is not here thy rest is not here thy happiness is elsewhere and thy heart must be loosned from all these things that are here below in the world and this is the work of God in the soul to disingage the heart from the Creature and how contrary is a murmuring heart to such a thing a thing that is