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Four books on the eleventh of Matthew
Four books on the eleventh of Matthew: viz: I. Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest. II. Christ the great teacher of souls that come to him. To which is added a treatise of meekness and of anger. III. Christ the humble teacher of those that come to him. IIII. The only easy way to heaven. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel at Stepney and Cripple-Gate, London.Four books on the eleventh of Matthew: viz: I. Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest. II. Christ the great teacher of souls that come to him. To which is added a treatise of meekness and of anger. III. Christ the humble teacher of those that come to him. IIII. The only easie way to heaven. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel at Stepny and Cripple-Gate, London.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1659
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4. In the midst of all the excellencies that God doth give unto an humble heart, yet he is ashamed of himself, or rather thus: An humble heart is ashamed of it self, yea, even when God bestows the greatest excellencies of all upon him, In Ezra 9. when Ezra was humbling himself before the Lord together with the Church, he saith thus, We are ashamed of our selves and confounded because of this. And in Jerem. 31. 19. Ephraim humbles himself and smiting upon his Thigh he confesseth that he was ashamed. And so the Church speaks in Jerem. 3. 25. We lie down in our shame. An humble spirit is ashamed of himself; whatever others think of him, yet such a one is conscious of so much evil in himself, that he is humbled when he looks upon his black Legs: though others may think, O! such a one hath excellent abilities, and the like; yet an ⟨p. 546⟩humble spirit hath such thoughts of it self, as makes it ashamed of it self. And so, in Ezra 9. it was the time when God began to bring them from Captivity, and yet that was the time when they were ashamed of themselves, and were shaming themselves.
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