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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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Yea, All outward needful things is promised to the humble, in Prov. 22. 4. By Humility and the fear of the Lord is Riches, and Honour, and Life. You will say, Humble people (may be) are poor, but they have more assurance of Riches than any in the world have, they have Gods bond for Riches, but still ever to be understood with the condition of the Cross, ever understood so, as may be useful for the enriching of their Souls, God hath promised to enrich their outward estates. You think by the pride of your hearts, and your bustling in the world, you may get much, but by walking humbly with God, you may expect more blessing upon your estate than from any thing in the world.
Yea, All outward needfull things is promised to the humble, in Prov. 22. 4. By Humility and the fear of the Lord is Riches, and Honor, and Life. You wil say, Humble people (may be) are poor, but they have more assurance of Riches than any in the world have, they have Gods bond for Riches, but still ever to be understood with the condition of the Cross, ever understood so, as may be usefull for the enriching of their Souls, God hath promised to enrich their outward estates. You think by the pride of your hearts, and your busseling in the world, you may get much, but by walking humbly with God, you may expect more blessing upon your estate than from any thing in the world.
But now that which is the main Promise of all, is, that in the Text, Learn of me for I am Meek and Lowly in heart and you shall find rest for your Souls, and there are no People in the world that have so much rest in their hearts, such satisfaction in their Souls, as those that are of humble hearts, there is a great deal of disquiet in the world and men complain ⟨p. 601⟩that they cannot live at quiet, and they have no rest at all in their Spirits, know, that is from that proud Spirit of thine that there is no rest in thy bones and Spirit, but if God come once to work this Grace of humility in thy Soul, thou wilt find rest unto thy Soul in all thy ways, thou wilt walk with such a quiet, and contented Spirit, that none in the world walks with. Would not any of you have this Promise fulfilled in such troublesome times as this, when there is no rest in any thing in the world? Here is that Scripture that will show that though you cannot have rest in any thing in the world, yet you shall have rest in your Souls, it was in the former verse, when Christ did invite poor laden Sinners to come to him, I will give you rest, there is the rest of the Gospel that comes to the soul by Jesus Christ, I do not intend to look back to those things, all that I intend in this Promise is, to show you how Humility brings rest unto the Soul (I have showed before how Meekness brings rest unto the Soul,) and then we shall come to the words following, the easiness of the Yoke of Jesus Christ to those that are thus lowly as Christ would have them to be.