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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. CXXX.
Humility brings Rest unto the Soul in Eight Particulars, 1. It ventures upon nothing before it sees Gods call. 2. The Head of such, is lower then their condition. 3. He is never disappointed in the World. 4. He would have God have his Glory. 5. It freeth from opposition, o• maketh the Heart yield to it. 6. It makes the Heart rejoice in the property of others. 7. It is under many promises. 8. All Crosses are small to an Humble Heart.
Humility brings Rest unto the Soul in Eight Particulars, 1. It ventures upon nothing before it sees Gods call. 2. The Head of such, is lower then their condition. 3. He is never disappointed in the World. 4. He would have God have his Glory. 5. It freeth from opposition, o• maketh the Heart yeild to it. 6. It makes the Heart rejoyce in the property of others. 7. It is under many promises. 8. All Crosses are smal to an Humble Heart.
But now we come to open the promise, and then we will apply altogether, the promise here made to those that are lowly in Heart, I will give you Rest. Now I shall not need to open the Rest that a Christians heart hath that comes to Christ, that hath been done at large in the former verse, Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy Laden, and I will give you Rest. Therefore here I shall only show, how Humility, and Lowliness of heart gives Rest unto the Soul, There is, I confess, a great correspondency between those two Graces, and therefore I shall speak the less now of the Rest of the Soul in humility, because there is a great affinity between this and Meekness, now one that is Lowly in heart must needs live at Rest.
BUt now we come to open the promise, and then we will apply altogether, the promise here made to those that are lowly in Heart, I will give you Rest. Now I shal not need to open the Rest that a Christians heart hath that comes to Christ, that hath been done at large in the former verse, Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy Laden, and I will give you Rest. Therefore here I shall only shew, how Humility, and Lowliness of heart gives Rest unto the Soul, There is, I confess, a great correspondency between those two Graces, and therefore I shal speak the less now of the Rest of the Soul in humility, because there is a great affinity between this and Meekness, now one that is Lowly in heart must needs live at Rest.