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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 so for us to meditate first on his Glory, and then of his condition in his Agony, it is a mighty means to humble our spirits.
5. But now the last thing is: The right knowledge of our selves, this is another Means to make us humble, now, the right knowledge of our selves is that which should bring our hearts low; it was that that the Heathen did admire, Socrates was accounted the famous man for this sentence, I know nothing, because I know my self, you may conclude it, a man or woman that is lifted up in pride, it is a sign thou dost not know thy self, if thou knewest all the Mysteries in nature, the nature of the Sun, Moon and Stars, and Arts and Sciences, all is nothing to the knowing of thine own heart: Dost thou know thine own heart, prize this as a choice thing, it is such a thing thou shouldest spend much time to read▪ many of you perhaps cannot read in a book, I but you must be learned in the books of your own heart, read that well, and you will know enough there:
5. But now the last thing is: The right knowledg of our selves, this is another Means to make us humble, now, the right knowledg of our selves is that which should bring our hearts low; it was that that the Heathen did admire, Sotrates was accounted the famous man for this sentence, I know nothing, because I know my self, you may conclude it, a man or woman that is lifted up in pride, it is a sign thou dost not know thy self, if thou knewest all the Mysteries in nature, the nature of the Sun, Moon and Stars, and Arts and Sciences, all is nothing to the knowing of thine own heart: Dost thou know thine own heart, prize this as a choice thing, it is such a thing thou shouldest spend much time to read▪ many of you perhaps cannot read in a book, I but you must be learned in the books of your own heart, read that well, and you will know enough there: