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A30598	The rare jewel of Christian contentment wherein is shewed, I. What contentment is, II. The holy art or mystery of it, III. Several lessons that Christ teacheth, to work the heart to contentment, IV. The excellencies of it, V. The evils of murmuring, VII. The aggravations of the sin of murmuring / by Jeremiah Burroughs.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1649 (1649)	Wing B6103; ESTC R32016	217,805	276

and think that no evil shall come of it Therefore he lifted up his hand against them to overthrow them you that are discontented you lift up your hearts against God and you cause God to lift up his hand against you perhaps God laies his finger upon you softly in some afflictions that are upon you in your families or else where and you cannot bear the hand of God that lies upon you as tenderly as a tender-hearted nurse that laies her hand upon the child you cannot bear the tender hand of God that is upon you in a lesser affliction it were just with God to lift up his hand against you in another manner of affliction Oh a murmuring spirit provokes God exceedingly There is another place in 16. of Num. compare the 41. verse and the 46. vers together But on the morrow all the Congregation of the Children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron saying Ye have killed the people of the Lord and mark in the 46. verse And Moses said unto Aaron Take a Censer and put fire therein from off the Altar and put on incense and go quickly unto the Congregation and make an attonement for them for there is wrath gone out from the Lord the plague is begun mark how Gods wrath is kindled in the 41. verse the Congregation had murmured and they murmured but against Moses and Aaron perhaps you murmur more directly against God and that was against God in murmuring against Gods Ministers it was against God but not so directly but it may be the murmuring of your hearts is more directly against Gods dealings with you if you murmur against those that God makes instruments because you have not every thing that you would have as against the Parliament or such and such that are publique instruments it 's against God it was but against Moses and Aaron that the Israelites murmured and they said that Moses and Aaron had killed the people of the Lord though it was the hand of God that was upon them for their former wickednesse in murmuring It is usual for wicked vile hearts to deal thus with God that when Gods hand is a little upon them for to murmur again and again and so to bring upon themselves even infinite kind of evils but now the anger of God was quickly kindled Oh saith Moses Go take the Censer quickly for wrath is gone out from Jehovah the plague is begun so while you are murmuring in your families the wrath of God may quickly go out against you quickly in a morning or evening when you are murmuring the wrath of God may come quickly out upon your families or persons you are never so prepared for present wrath as when you are in a murmuring discontented fit those that stand by and see you in a murmuring discontented fit have cause to say Oh let us go and take the censer let us go to prayer for we are afraid that wrath is gone out against this familie against this person And it were a verie good thing for thee that art a godly wife when you see your husband come home and fall to murmuring because things go not according to his desire to go to prayer and say Lord perdon the sin of my husband and so for the husband to go to God in prayer falling down and beseeching of him that wrath may not come out against his familie for the murmuring of his wife And the truth is at this day there hath been at least lately as much murmuring in England as ever was and even in this very particular the plague is begun and this very judgment it doth come many times upon murmuring upon those that are so discontented in their families and are alwaies grumbling and murmuring at any thing that fals out amisse I say this text of Scripture in Numbers doth cleerly hold forth this that the Lord brings the plague upon men for this sin of murmuring he doth it in kingdomes and families and upon particular persons Though we cannot alwaies point out the particular sin that God brings this for yet this should be examined how far we are guilty of the sin of murmuring because the Scripture holds forth this so cleerly that Moses when he did but hear that they murmured Do they murmur saith he Go forth quickly and seek to passifie the anger of God for wrath is gone out and the plague is begun And in 1 Cor. 10.10 there you have an notable example of Gods heavie displeasure against murmuring Neither murmur ye as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer Take heed of murmuring as some of them did he speaks of the people of Israel in the wildernesse but saith he what came of it They were destroyed of the destroyer Now the destroyer is thought to be the fiery-serpents that were sent among them They murmured and God sent fiery serpents to sting them What do you think that such a cross and affliction doth sting you perhaps such an affliction is upon you and it seems to be grievous for the present what do you murmur and repine God hath greater crosses to bring upon you Those people that murmur for the want of outward comforts for want of water sometimes and for the want of bread they murmur but the Lord sends fiery-serpents among them I may say to a murmuring heart Wo to thee that strivest with thy Maker wo to that man that woman that strives against their Maker what doest thou else but strive against thy Maker Thy Maker hath the absolute dispose of thee and wilt thou strive against thy Maker What doth this murmuring discontented heart of thine do otherwise but wrangle and contind and strive even with God himself Oh wo to him that strives against his Maker I may further say to thee as Gods speaks to Job Job 38.1 2. when Job was impatient Now God spake saith the text out of the whirlwind and said Who is this that darkneth counsel by words without knowledge So doest thou speak against Gods waies and his providences that hath fallen out concerning thy estate and outward comforts who is this Who is this that darkneth counsel by words without knowledge Where 's that man or woman whose hearts are so bold and impudent as dares speak against the administration of Gods providence The Tenth Evil of murmuring and discontent is this There 's a great curse of God upon it so far as it doth prevail in one that is wicked it hath the curse of God upon it In Psal 59.15 see there what the curse of God is upon wicked and ungodly men Let them wander up and down for meat and grudge if they be not satisfied That is the imprecation and curse upon wicked and ungodly men that if they be not satisfied they shall grudge when thou art not satisfied in thy desires and findest thy heart grudging against God apply this Scripture What is the curse of the wicked upon me This is the curse that is threatned

reason why God was so displeased because that they would have more ease in Gods service than God would have them for whereas they should carry it upon their shoulders they would carry it upon a cart Mark here you see the first burden that they had beyond what the other Levites had And those indeed that are in more honourable places than others those that are under them think not of their burden that they are to carry upon their shoulders when as others have means to ease them and many times those that are imployed in the Ministrie or Majestracie that sit at the stern to order the great Affairs of the Common-wealth and State you think they live bravely they lie awake when you are asleep if you knew the burden that lies upon their spirits you would think that your labour and burden were verie little in comparison of theirs 2. There 's another burden of danger more than the rest and that you shall find in Numb 4.17 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites but thus do unto them that they may live and not die When they approch unto the most holy things Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden but they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered lest they die Mark this text saith the Lord to Moses and Aaron Cut ye not off the tribe of the family of the Kohathites from among the Levites Cut them not off why what had they done had they done any thing amisse no they had not done any thing that provoked God but the meaning is this Take a great care of the family of the Kohathites to instruct them in their duty that they were to do for saith God they are in a great deal of danger being to serve in the most holy things if they should go in to see the holy things more than God would have them it is as much as their lives are worth and therefore if you should but neglect them and not inform them thorowly in their duty they would be undone saith God they are to administer in the most holy things and if they should but dare to presume to do any thing otherwise than God would have them about those services it would cost them their lives and therefore be not you carelesse of them for if you neglect them you will be a means of cutting them off Thus you see the danger that the family of the Kohathites were in they were prefer'd before others but they were in more danger So you think there are such men in a parish that bear the sway and are imployed in publick service and they carry all before them but you consider not their danger And so the Ministers they stand in the fore-front of all the spight and mallice of ungodly men indeed God imployes them in honourable service and that service that the Angels would take delight in but though the service be honourable above the imployment of other works yet the burden of danger that likewise is greater than the danger of men that are in an inferiour condition Now when the Soul comes to get wisdom from Christ to think of the danger that it is in then it wil be content with that low estate in which it is A poor man that is in a low condition thinks I am low and others are raised but I know not what their burden is and so if he be rightly instructed in the school of Christ he coms to be contented 3. I a prosperous estate there is the burden of duty You look only at the sweet and comfort that they have and the honour and respect that they have that are in a prosperous condition but you must consider of the duty that they owe to God God requires more duty at their hands than at yours you are ready to be discontented that you have not such parts and abilities as such have but God requires more duty of them that have more parts God requires more duty of them that have greater estates than of you that have not such estates Oh you would faine have the honour but can you carrie the burden of the duty 4. The last is The burden of account in a prosperous estate There is a great account that they are to give to God that enjoy great estates and a prosperous condition Now we are all stewards and one is a steward to a meaner man perhaps but an ordinary Knight another is a steward to a Noble-man an Earle now the steward of the meaner man he hath not so much as the other hath under his hand now shall he be discontented because there comes not so much under his hand as under the others No thinks he I have lesse and I am to give the lesse account So your account in comparison of the Ministers and Magistrates will be nothing you are to give an account of your own souls and so are they you are to give an account for your own family and so are they but you are not to give account for Congregations and for Towns and Cities and Countries You think of Princes and Kings Oh! what a glorious condition they are in But what do you think of a King to give account for all the disorder and wickednesse in a Kingdom that he possibly might have prevented What abundance of glory might a Prince bring to God if so be that he bent his soul and all his thoughts to lift up the Name of God in a Kingdom now what God loses for want of this that King Prince or Governour he must give an account for It 's a speech of Chrysostom in that place of the Hebrewes where it 's said that men must give an account for their souls he wonders that any men in publick place can be saved because their account is so great that they are to give And I remember I have read a speech of Philip that was King of Spaine though the story saith of him that he had such a natural conscience that he profest he would not do any thing against his conscience no not in secret for the gaining of the world yet when this man was to die Oh saith he that I had never been a King Oh that I had liv'd a sollitary and privat life all my daies then should I have died a great deal more securely I should with more confidence have gone before the Throne of God to give my account but here 's the fruit of my kingdom that I had all the glory of it it hath made my account to be harder to give to God and thus he cries out when he was to die And therefore you that live in private conditions remember this If you come into Christ's School and be taught this lesson you will be quiet in your afflictions or private estate in regard your account is

must be purged out of thee before thou canst be healed and let God do with thee what he will till he purges out that fretting humour thy wound will not be healed a murmuring heart is a very sinful heart so that when thou art troubled for such an affliction thou hadst need turn thy thoughts rather to be troubled for the murmuring of thy heart for that 's the greatest trouble there is an affliction upon thee and that is grievous but there is a murmuring heart within and that 's more grievous Oh that we could but convince men and women that a murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction let the affliction be what it will be We shall shew more afterward that a murmuring spirit is the evil of the evil and the misery of the misery Secondly The evill of murmuring is such that God when he would speak of wicked men and describe them and slew the brand of a wicked and ungodly man or woman he instances in this sin in a more special manner I might name many Scriptures but that Scripture in Jude is a most remarkable one in the 14. verse and so forward there it is said That the Lord comes with ten thousands of his Saints to execute judgement upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him Mark here in this 15. verse there is four times mentioned ungodly ones All that are ungodly among them all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him This is in the general But now he comes in the particular to shew who these are these are saith he Murmurers that 's the very first Would you know who are ungodly men that God when he comes with ten thousand of Angels shall come to punish for all their ungodly deeds that they do and those that speak ungodly things against them These ungodly ones are murmurers murmurers in the Scripture are put in the fore front of ungodly one it 's a most dreadfull Scripture that the Lord when he speaks of ungodly ones puts murmurers in the very fore-front of all you had need look to your spirits you may see that this murmuring which is the vice contrary to this Contentment is not so small a matter as you think you think you are not so ungodly as others because you do not swear and drink as others do but you may be ungodly in murmuring it 's true there is no sin but some seeds and remainers of it are in those that are godly but 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 drunkennesse or whordom 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 the 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 accounts it rebellion that is contrary to the worship that there was in contentednesse that 's worshiping of God crouching to God and falling down before him even as a dog that would crouch when you hould a staffe over him but a murmuring heart it 's 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 the Chap. 17. vers 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 smoke of the fire there is first a smoke and smother before the flame breaks forth and so before open rebellion in a kingdom there is first a smoke 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 exeeeding 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 soule 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

the Chapter is ended in the 23. verse When they came to Marah in the same Chapter they could not drink of the waters of Marah for they were bitter therefore the name of it was called Marah and the people murmured against Moses After so great a mercy as this was what unthankfulnes was there here in their murmuring Then God gave them water but in the very next Chapter they fell to their murmuring you reade not that they were humbled for their former murmuring and therefore they murmur again Exod. 16.1 c. All the Congregation of the Children of Israel came to the wildernesse of Sin c. And the whole Congregation in the second verse of the Children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wildernesse and the Children of Israel said unto them Would to God we had dyed by the hand of the Lord in the Land of Egypt when we sate by the flesh-pots and when we did eat bread to the full Now they want flesh they wanted water before but now they want meat they fell to murmuring again they were not humbled for this murmuring against God neither when God gave them flesh according to their desires but they fell to murmuring again they wanted somewhat else In the very next Chapter they went not far in the 17 of Exod. beginning And all the Congregation of the Children of Israel journied from the wildernesse of Sin and pitthed in Rephadim and there was no water for the people to drink then in the second verse Wherefore the people did chide with Moses and said Give us water that we may drink and Moses said unto them Why chide you with me wherefore do you tempt the Lord And in the third verse And the people thirsted there for water and the people murmured against Moses and said Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt to kill us and our Children and our Cattell with thirst So one time after another still as soon as ever they had received the mercie then they were a little quieted but they were not humbled I bring these Scriptures for this to shew that if we have not been humbled for murmuring the next crosse that we meet withal we will fall to murmuring again And now there are divers agravations of this sin of murmuring I 'le mention but one now and I shall but begin that The first Agravation is this To murmur when we enjoy abundance of mercy the greater and the more abundant the mercy is that we enjoy the greater and the viler is the sin of murmuring As here now when God had newly delivered them out of the house of bondage for them now to murmur because they want some few particulars that they desire Oh to sin against God after a great mercy this is a great agravation and a most abominable thing Now my brethren the Lord hath granted us very great mercies I 'le but speak a word of what God hath done of late what mercies hath the Lord granted to us this summer heaped mercies upon us one mercie upon another what a condition were we in at the beginning of this summer and what a different condition are we in now Oh what a mercie is it that the Lord hath not taken advantages against us that he hath not made those Scriptures before mentioned good upon us for all our murmuring the Lord hath gone on with one mercie after another We hear of mercie in Bristol and mercy to our brethren in Scotland But still if after this we should have any thing befall us that is but crosse to us that we should be ready to murmur again presently Oh let us not so requite God for those mercies of his Oh let 's take heed of giving God any ill requital for his mercies Oh give God praise according to his excellent greatness to his excellent goodnesse and grace And now hath God given to you the Contentment of your hearts Take you heed of being the cause of any greife to your brethren think not that because God hath been gracious unto you that therefore he hath given you liberty for to bring them into bondage Oh let not there be such an il effect of Gods mercy to you as for you to exclude by petitioning or any other way your Brethren that the Lord hath been pleased to make Instruments of your peace let not that be the fruit of it nor to desire any thing that your selves do not yet understand God is very jealous of the glory of his mercy and if there should be an ill use made of the mercy of God after we enjoy it Oh it would go to the heart of God! nothing is more grievous to the heart of God than the abuse of mercy As now if any way that is hard and rigid should be taken towards our Brethren and those especially that God hath made such special Instruments of good to us that have been so willing to venture their lives and all for us now when we have our turns served let God and his People and Servants that have been a means to save us shift for themselves as well as they can Oh! this is a great aggravation of your sin to sin against the mercies of God But for this Aggravation and specially in this particular we shall speak to God willing the next day SERMON IX PHILIPPIANS 4.11 For I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content NOW because it is very hard to work upon a murmuring spirit there are divers aggravations I told you we are to consider of for the further setting out of the greatness of this sin I mentioned but only one the last day now we shall proceed in that The first Agravation of the sin of discontent and murmuring is this For men and women to be discontent in the mid'st of mercies in enjoyment of abundance of mercies To be discontent in any afflicted condition is sinful and evil but to be discontent when we are in the middest of Gods mercies when we are not able to count the mercies of God yet after to be discontent because we have not all we would have this is a greater evil I only mentioned this the last day that I might shew to you what a great sin it is at such a time as this The Lord this summer hath multiplied mercies one upon another the Lord hath made this summer to be a continued miracle of mercie never did a Kingdom enjoy in so little space of time such mercies one upon another Now the publick mercies of God should quiet our hearts and keep us from discontent and the sin of discontent for private afflictions is exceedingly aggravated by the consideration of publick mercies to the Land when the Lord hath bin so merciful to the Land wilt thou be feetting and murmuring because thou hast not in thy family all the comforts that thou would'st have As it is a great aggravation of a mans evill for him to rejoyce