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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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3. The knowledge of God, and the setting God before us, is a principal thing to make us humble, you know how it was with him, in Prov. 30. and the beginning, The man spake unto Ithiel and Ucal, I have opened the meaning of this to you at another time, he spake to Ithiel, God with me, Surely, I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man, Oh! how low was he in his own eyes when he had to deal with God, the sight of God is that that humbles one more than any thing in the world. And so that of Job, that famous place in Job 42. after God had made himself known to Job at verse 3, 4. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, saith he, but now mine eye seeth thee, wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and ashes. What an humble heart, and a broken heart had he? I set always God before me. And so Isay when he had the vision of God, and the Seraphims cry Holy, Holy, Holy, the whole earth is full of thy Glory, woe to me, saith he, I am undone, because he had seen God. Thus all the Servants of God that did converse much with God, were very humble, Jesus Christ himself ⟨p. 617⟩that had a lowly heart, he conversing much with God, and knowing so much of the divine nature, having such interest in him, therefore there was never such an example of a Lowly Spirit as Christs example was, whenas we come to know God, the infinite distance that is between God and us, then what is all the excellencies in the world, when thou comest to know the infinite excellency of God? What is the glimmerings of a Glo-worm when we come to see all the Glory of Heaven?
3. The knowledg of God, and the setting God before us, is a principal thing to make us humble, you know how it was with him, in Prov. 30. and the beginning, The man spake unto Ithiel and Ucal, I have opened the meaning of this to you at another time, he spake to Ithiel, God with me, Surely, I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man, Oh! how low was he in his own eyes when he had to deal with God, the sight of God is that that humbles one more than any thing in the world. And so that of Job, that famous place in