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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77994	The rare jevvel of Christian contentment. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to two of the greatest congregations in England; viz. Stepney and Criplegate, London.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1648 (1648)	Wing B6102; Thomason E424_1; Thomason E424_2; ESTC R204543	184,029	231

to know our hearts well that when they are out of tune we may know what the matter is 2 This knowledge of our hearts will help us to Contentment because by this we shall come to know what is most sutable to our condition As thus a man that knows not his own heart he thinks not what need he hath of affliction and upon that he is disquieted but that man or woman that hath studied their own hearts when God comes with afflictions upon them they can say I would not for any thing in the world have been without this affliction God hath so suted this affliction to my condition and hath come in such a way that if this affliction had not come I am affraid I should have fallen into sinne a poor country man that takes phisick the phisick works he thinks it will kill him because he knows not the ill humours that are in his body and therefore he understands not how sutable the physick is to him but a Physician takes a purge and it makts him extreamly sick saith the Physician I like this the better it doth but work upon the humour that I know is the matter of my disease and upon that such a man that hath knowledge and understanding in his body and the cause of his distemper he is not troubled or disquieted So would we be if we did but know the distempers of our own hearts carnall men and women they know not their own spirits and therefore they fling and vex upon every affliction that doth befall them they know not what distempers are in their hearts that may be healed by their afflictions if it please God to give them a sanctified use of them 3. By knowing their own hearts they know what they are able to manage and by this means they come to be Content the Lord perhaps takes away many comforts from them that they had before or denies them some things that they hoped to have got now they by knowing their hearts know this that they were not able to manage such an estate and they were not able to manage such prosperity God saw it and saith a poor soul Iam in some measure convinced by looking into mine own heart that I was not able to manage such a condition A man desires greedily to gripe more perhaps then he is able to manage and so undoes himselfe as countrey men doe observe that if they doe over-stock their Land it will quickly spoyl them and so a wise Husband-man that knows how much his ground will bear he is not troubled that he hath not so much stock as others why because he knows he hath not ground enough for so great a stock and that quiets him so many men and women that know not their own hearts they would fain have a prosperous estate as others have but if they knew their own hearts they would know that they were not able to manage it if one of your little children of three or four years old should be crying for the coat of her that is twelve or twenty years old and say why may not I have a coat as long as my sisters If she had it would soon trip up her heels and break her face but when the Child comes to understanding she is not discontented because her coat is not so long as her sisters but saith my coat is fit for me and therein takes Content so if we come to understanding in the School of Christ we will not cry why have not I such an estate as others have the Lord seeth that I am not able to manage it and I see it my self by the knowing of mine own heart You shall have children if they see but a knife they will cry for it because they know not their strength and that they are not able to mannage it but you know they are not able to mannage it and therefore you will not give it them and when they come to so much understanding as to know that they are not able to mannage it they will not cry for it so we would not cry for such and such things if we knew that we were not able to mannage them when you vex and fret for what you have not I may say to you as Christ saith you know not of what spirits you are of It was a speech of Oecolampadius to Parillus saith he when they were speaking about his extream poverty Not so poor though I have been very poor yet I would be poorer I could be willing to be poorer then I am for the truth is as if he should say the Lord knew that that was more sutable to me and I knew that my own heart was such that a poor condition was more sutable to me then a rich so certainly would we say if we knew our own hearts that such and such a condition is better for me then if it had been otherwise The Seventh lesson Is the burden of a prosperous estate Such a one that comes into Christs School to be instructed in this Art never comes to attain to any great skill in this Art until he comes to understand the burden that is in a prosperous estate Object You will say what burden is there in a prosperous estate Answ Yes certainly a great burden and there needs a great strength to bear it as men had need of strong brains that can bear strong wine so they had need of stronge spirits that are able to bear prosperous conditions and not to do themselves hurt there 's a fourfould burden in a prosperous estate Many men and women look at the shine and glittering of prosperity but they little think of the burden but there 's a fourfould burden 1. There 's A burden of trouble a rose hath it's prickles and so the Scripture saith that he that will be rich pierceth himself through with many sorrows 1 Tim. 6. 10. If a mans heart be set upon it that he must be rich and he will be rich such a man will pierce himself through with many sorrows he looks upon the delight and glory of riches that appears outwardly but he considers not what pierceing sorrows he may meet withall in them The consideration of the trouble in a prosperous condition I have divers times thought of and I cannot tell by what similitude to expresse it better then by travelling in some champian country where round about is very fair and sandy ground and you see there a town a great way of in a bottom and you think Oh how bravely is that town seated but when you come and ride into the town you shall ride through a durty lane and through a company of fearful durty holes and you could not see the durty lane and holes when you were two or three mile off so sometimes we look upon the prosperity of men and think such a man lives bravly and comfortably but if we did but know what troubles he meets withall in his family in his estate