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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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Ninthly: Further, Humility hath this excellency in it, That it is that that puts an ornament upon all Graces, it is as it were the Lustre, Beauty, and Ornament, the Varnish, Nay that is too mean a Phrase, it is the Glory and true Beauty of every Grace in a man. I remember Chrysostom hath such an expression as this, Whatever a man doth without Humility, though he should work Miracles, he were but as a dead Dog, Let a man do never so much, yet there is no Beauty in what he doth where there is no humility, but Humility puts an Ornament and Beauty upon all Graces. That place is known in 1 Pet. 5. 5. we have often had occasion to make use of it, Be clothed with Humility, I have told you sometimes, the propriety of the word signifies, the dressing with Ribbons, fine beautiful Ornaments, Be clothed with Humility, it is the beautiful ornament of a Christian, and of all the Graces of a Christian, it puts off Grace, and every action with a Grace, as I may so say, And that some think to be the meaning of the Promise that we shall speak unto afterwards, In 1 Pet. 5. 5. God resisteth the Proud and giveth Grace to the Humble. It is true, (as we shall show afterwards) that God gives Grace, that is, the Graces of his Spirit, but there is a further sense in it▪ God gives a Grace to that, God puts a Beauty and Ornament upon the Humble, for Humility doth so beautify a Christian, that whatever they do they do it with a Grace, there is no Christian that doth things with such a Grace as the Humble, and it is that that doth adorn all Graces, Humility Graceth all Graces whatsoever.
Ninthly: Further, Humility hath this excellency in it, That it is that that puts an ornament upon al Graces, it is as it were the Lustre, Beauty, and Ornament, the Varnish, Nay that is too mean a Phrase, it is the Glory and true Beauty of every Grace in a man. I remember Chrisostome hath such an expression as this, Whatever a man doth without Humility, though he should work Miracles, he were but as a dead Dog, Let a man do never so much, yet there is no Beauty in what he doth where there is no humility, but Humility puts an Ornament and Beauty upon all Graces. That place is known in 1 Pet. 5. 5. we have often had occasion to make use of it, Be clothed with Humility, I have told you somtimes, the propriety of the word signifies, the dressing with Ribbons, fine beautiful Ornaments, Be clothed with Humility, it is the beautiful ornament of a Christian, and of al the Graces of a Christian, it puts off Grace, and every action with a Grace, as I may so say, And that some think to be the meaning of the Promise that we shall speak unto afterwards, In