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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: What now you are.
Fifthly: What you would be if God should but leave you a little to your selves.
Sixthly: In what case ye all one day shall certainly be in.
These are the Heads to meditate upon to know your own vileness, and so to humble your selves before God, these are the meditations that may serve to prick the bladders of Pride, and beat down the heart when it is lifted up.
As First: Meditate what once you were, consider that there is never a one of you whatever your condition is now, but you were a Child of wrath, and that as well as others, as well as the vilest, basest wretch in the world, as you were by nature you you were such as lost God, had departed from him, were deprived of the Image of God, your excellency was departed from you, you were under the curse of the Law, you were enemies unto God, your life was a continual enmity unto God, all your days you did nothing else but fight against him, you were guilty, condemned Creatures, you were full of sin, of the Seeds of all kinds of sin, there is no sin in Hell it self but the Seeds of it were in your hearts, your hearts and lives were full of sin, all the faculties of your Souls were full of sin, and all the members of your bodies instruments of sin, all the good things you had was defiled, Soul and Body was polluted, and all loathsome you were even cast out in your blood, and even lived in filthiness, for all the time of your natural condition, all the Creatures that you had use of you defiled with sin, and all Ordinances were polluted, all things were unclean to you: Now these are some certain Heads to meditate upon, to work upon us the knowledge of our selves, what we were in that natural state.