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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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Fifthly, And further, Humility is a Grace that is beyond all kind of Sacrifices acceptable to God, in Psal. 51. The Sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, But the place especially that I would fix this upon, it is that in Mic. 6. 6. and so on, There is the question asked, Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow my self before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, and Calves of a year Old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of Rams, Or with ten thousand of Rivers of Oil? Shall I give my first born for my Transgression, the fruit of my Body for the sin of my Soul? Here was great things, shall I do all this? We are willing to do all this, Mark verse, 8. He hath showed thee, O man, what is good, and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to Love Mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Here is a Scripture that justifies what we said before, that an humble man is of a tender heart; but now I note it only for this, that when they seem to promise such great things to God, that they would offer if they were able thousands of Rams, and ten thousand Rivers of Oil, that they would give the fruit of their body for the sin of their Soul, saith God, all this is nothing to me in comparison of your walking humbly before me, walk humbly before God, and this is more to God, then if you were able to show your respects unto him in offering thousands of Rams, or ten thousand Rivers of Oil, or give the fruit of your body for the ⟨p. 591⟩sin of your Soul. You that are poor people, you are not able to give much to God, you think, Oh, if I were able to do much service for God, to do great things for God as others are, what an excellent thing were it? But I have nothing; Well▪ but canst thou walk humbly before the Lord? It is more then if thou couldest give Kingdoms unto God, and therefore a great excellency appears in this Grace of Humility.
Fifthly, And further, Humility is a Grace that is beyond all kind of Sacrifices acceptable to God, in Psal. 51. The Sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, But the place especially that I would fix this upon, it is that in