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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.

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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.
Author
Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.
Publication
London :: Printed for Peter Cole ...,
1649.
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Contentment.
Christian life.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A30598.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

Pages

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  • Daily see Bread
  • Danger
    • Danger of prosperity Page 86
  • Dear
    • A siggn of love to give him that that cost us dear Page 185
  • Deliverance
    • Deliverance may be sought in afflictions,
  • Denial see Self
  • Departed
    • We think God is departed when we are afflicted Page 168
    • Though God were departed from us, we should not from him Page 169
    • See Disquiet
  • Dependance
    • We should live in continual de∣pendance upon God Page 179
  • Deserve
    • We deserve nothing of God Page 69
  • Desires
    • A Christian should take from his desires Page 29
  • Devil
    • Devil, his Rhetorick Page 136
    • Devil most discontented Page 147
  • Dew
    • A Christian lives on the dew of Gods blessing Page 40
  • Dignity
    • Dignity of a Christian Page 120
  • Discouragement.
    • Discouragement opposite to Contentment Page 7
  • Discontent
    • Discontent, the reason of it Page 73
    • Discontent, a sin of idle men Page 76
    • Discontent, the root of it Page 82
    • Discontent, how aggravated Page 153
    • Discontent, Pleas for it Page 165
    • See Grace, Shift, Foolish, Mercies, Devil
  • Disgrace

    Page [unnumbered]

      • Disgrace, how sanctified Page 45
    • Dishonour
      • A Christian discontented when God is dishonoured Page 15
    • Dispose, see Freely
    • Disquiet
      • Disquiet the the cause of Gods de∣parting Page 168
      • See Murmuring
    • Duty
      • Duty of a Christian in prosperity Page 89
      • What unfits for duty Page 134
      • God accepts of weak duty Page 156
      • Sence of affliction, hinders not duty Page 165
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