Jeremiah Burroughs - The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

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You may think you find peace in Christ when you have no outward troubles, but is Christ your peace when the Assyrian comes into the land, when the enemy comes?...Jesus Christ would be peace to the soul when the enemy comes into the city, and into your houses.

Jeremiah Burroughs

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

Jeremiah Burroughs

Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much:

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But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes me content not only in one particular but in general, whatever befalls me.

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Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!

Jeremiah Burroughs

One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

Jeremiah Burroughs