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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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Tenthly: And then it is that that preserves all Graces too, and so some take the word there to come from a word that signifies a knot, because it ties all Graces, as it were, with fast knots together, ⟨p. 597⟩as I find some Interpreters carry the word, it unites, and knits, and strengthens all Graces, Paul walked humbly with God, walked constantly with him, whatever fell out, it did not hinder them from serving God, As in Acts 20, the place I named before, when he called together the Elders of Ephesus at verse 19. when they were come, he speaks to them thus, Serving the Lord with all Humility of mind, and with many tears and temptations which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews, whatever temptations did befall Paul, yet he was able to go through them, for he served the Lord with all Humility, it is the proud swollen heart that is the backsliding heart, but the humble heart is the heart that keeps constant with God, it preserves all the Graces of the Spirit of God in vigour, and in strength, uniting of them together, and uniting the Soul to the Fountain of all Grace, it is the preservative of all Grace.
Tenthly: And then it is that that preserves all Graces too, and so some take the word there to come from a word that signifies a knot, because it ties all Graces, as it were, with fast knots together, ⟨p. 597⟩as I find some Interpreters carry the word, it unites, and knits, and strengthens all Graces, Paul walked humbly with God, walked constantly with him, whatever fell out, it did not hinder them from serving God, As in Acts 20, the place I named before, when he called together the Elders of Ephesus at verse 19. when they were come, he speaks to them thus, Serving the Lord with all Humility of mind, and with many tears and temptations which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews, whatever temptations did befall Paul, yet he was able to go through them, for he served the Lord with all Humility, it is the proud swollen heart that is the backsliding heart, but the humble heart is the heart that keeps constant with God, it preserves all the Graces of the Spirit of God in vigor, and in strength, uniting of them together, and uniting the Soul to the Fountain of all Grace, it is the preservative of all Grace.