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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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CHAP. CXXVI.
The First Property of Humility in respect of •thers, is that it thinks better of others then it self, Which is laid open in divers Particular answers unto several doubts and Objections.
There is yet one of these three things to be spoken unto in this Grace of Humility, which is the third Particular, what the behaviour of an humble heart is in reference unto others. For Humility much appears in that, though the principal work in humility is, in the carriage of the Soul in reference unto God, and in reference unto it self, yet there is very much in this grace of humility, in the carriage of the Soul in reference unto our Brethren. Now then the First thing wherein the behaviour of an humble heart is in reference unto others, and a principal thing, it is of very great concernment, and that is this.
THere is yet one of these three things to be spoken unto in this Grace of Humility, which is the third Particular, what the behavior of an humble heart is in reference unto others. For Humility much appears in that, though the principal work in humility is, in the carriage of the Soul in reference unto God, and in reference unto it self, yet there is very much in this grace of humility, in the carriage of the Soul in reference unto our Brethren. Now then the First thing wherein the behavior of an humble heart is in reference unto others, and a principal thing, it is of very great concernment, and that is this.