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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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Fourthly, An humble heart must needs bring Rest, because this is the guise and frame of it, it would have God to have his glory his own way; and this one principle, Oh, What abundance of quiet, and Rest would it bring to a mans spirit. That God should have his Glory, we all yield to that, I but that God should be glorified in his own way, this is hard, now let this and the other fall out, I but yet, saith a Lowly heart, it is fit God should have his Glory which way he pleaseth, and therefore he is not troubled.
Fourthly, An humble heart must needs bring Rest, because this is the guise and frame of it, it would have God to have his glory his own way; and this one principle, Oh, What abundance of quiet, and Rest would it bring to a mans spirit. That God should have his Glory, we all yeild to that, I but that God should be glorified in his own way, this is hard, now let this and the other fal out, I but yet, saith a Lowly heart, it is fit God should have his Glory which way he pleaseth, and therefore he is not troubled.
Fifthly, Humility brings a great deal of quiet, because it freeth us from opposition, or if it come, ⟨p. 608⟩it makes us yield to the opposition, it freeth us from opposition of men, for so I told you in the opening of it, an humble heart is afraid to give any offence, and so it is not likely that others will offend him, but if opposition do come, a Lowly heart yields to it, and when there is a yielding in time of opposition, when a blustering wind comes, yet if there be a yielding to it, it doth no great hurt, and so the heart that yields to opposition it hath quiet and Rest.
Fifthly, Humility brings a great deal of quiet, because it freeth us from opposition, or if it come, ⟨p. 608⟩it makes us yeild to the opposition, it freeth us from opposition of men, for so I told you in the opening of it, an humble heart is afraid to give any offence, and so it is not likely that others will offend him, but if opposition do come, a Lowly heart yeilds to it, and when there is a yeilding in time of opposition, when a blustring wind comes, yet if there be a yeilding to it, it doth no great hurt, and so the heart that yeilds to opposition it hath quiet and Rest.