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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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And in this Exhortation consider, that you cannot come all of you to be eminent do what you can, you that are weak do all what you can, you shall never come to have any great parts, you cannot have great Estates do what you can, but it is possible for you to come to be humble. You would think it a great matter, you that are weak, if one could show you how you should come to have excellent parts, gifts, memory, & the like; & you that are poor to be rich & eminent in the place where you live, & to be above others; Now God will not grant you these things, but here I can show you how you can come to be as humble as any man, and that is as much as if God gave you Ships, and they brought home to you the Riches of the Indies, you may come all to be humble, though ⟨p. 614⟩you cannot come all to be eminent in the world.
And in this Exhortation consider, that you cannot come all of you to be eminent do what you can, you that are weak do all what you can, you shall never come to have any great parts, you cannot have great Estates do what you can, but it is possible for you to come to be humble. You would think it a great matter, you that are weak, if one could shew you how you should come to have excellent parts, gifts, memory, & the like; & you that are poor to be rich & eminent in the place where you live, & to be above others; Now God will not grant you these things, but here I can shew you how you can come to be as humble as any man, and that is as much as if God gave you Ships, and they brought home to you the Riches of the Indies, you may come all to be humble, though ⟨p. 614⟩you cannot come all to be eminent in the world.
Quest. You will say. How shall we come to get an humble heart.
Quest. You wil say. How shal we come to get an humble heart.