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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. CXIX.
Lowliness what, Negatively in Five Particulars. 1. Not in Poverty. 2. Nor in Words only. 3. Nor Carriage. 4. Nor Habit. 5. Nor Baseness of Spirit.
WE have Finished that great and excellent Doctrine of Meekness, we are now to come to the next lesson that we are to Learn of Christ, Lowliness of Heart, and this of a lowly Heart, is of very near affinity unto a meek heart ⟨p. 478⟩yea the truth is, a lowly Heart is the Mother of Meekness, though Meekness is set before in my Text, yet in some other Scriptures, where we have Meekness and Humility joined together, we have Meekness set after, and Humility, and Lowliness set before, as in Coloss. 3. 12. Put on therefore as the Elect of God, Holy and beloved, Bowels of Mercy, Kindness, Humbleness of mind, Meekness, Humbleness of mind, Meekness, there Humbleness is set before, and that is indeed the true Christian Meekness, that doth come from Lowliness, Lowly in heart, The word here Lowly (in the Greek [Greek or Hebrew]) it signifies one even lying upon the ground ready to be Trodden on, as some Learned observe, Lowly in Heart. In 2 Cor. 7. 6. There you have this word here Translated Lowly, Cast down, one Cast down. Nevertheless God that comforteth those that are Cast down, [Greek or Hebrew] the same word that is here Translated in my Text Lowly, is there Cast down, such whose Heart is Cast down. And in 2 Cor. 10. and the first. Now I Paul my self beseech you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who ⟨p. 479⟩