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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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4. Another is from the right knowledge of Jesus Christ, saith he, Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart: There is no such means of Humility, as conversing much with Christ, for there was never such an example of Humility as Christ, and it was one of Gods ends to send his Son for an example into the world, to honour this Grace of Humility, and therefore they that know Christ much, and the way of Salvation, cannot but have empty hearts. It is a speech of Austin; saith he, It may be thou wilt be ashamed to imitate an humble man, such a one as is humble to make him thy pattern, thou thinkest thou hast more excellency in thee than him: I, but be not ashamed to imitate an humble God. Do but consider how willing Christ was to have that Glory and excellency of his to be eclipsed and darkened for so many years, though he was one that the Angels adored, and he might have let out that Glory to have filled all the whole world, and have made the world astonished with his Lustre, yet he was content for thirty two or thirty three years together to go up and down in the world as a man without form and comeliness, to be despised, contemned, and spit upon. If you have a little excellency, you show it presently, in Clothes, in Speeches, and the like, Christ shows you by this what vanity this is, what an excellency and Glory was upon him, and yet he was up and down in the world without form and comeliness.
4. Another is from the right knowledg of Jesus Christ, saith he, Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart: There is no such means of Humility, as conversing much with Christ, for there was never such an example of Humility as Christ, and it was one of Gods ends to send his Son for an example into the world, to honor this Grace of Humility, and therefore they that know Christ much, and the way of Salvation, cannot but have empty hearts. It is a speech of Austin; saith he, It may be thou wilt be ashamed to imitate an humble man, such a one as is humble to make him thy pattern, thou thinkest thou hast more excellency in thee than him: I, but be not ashamed to imitate an humble God. Do but consider how willing Christ was to have that Glory and excellency of his to be eclipsed and darkned for so many yeers, though he was one that the Angels adored, and he might have let out that Glory to have filled all the whol world, and have made the world astonished with his Lustre, yet he was content for thirty two or thirty three yeers together to go up and down in the world as a man without form and comeliness, to be despised, contemned, and spit upon. If you have a little excellency, you shew it presently, in Cloaths, in Speeches, and the like, Christ shewes you by this what vanity this is, what an excellency and Glory was upon him, and yet he was up and down in the world without form and comliness.