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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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Besides add to this, you were succorless, helpless, shiftless in your selves, you could never deliver your selves, you were wandering from God, and would have wandered eternally if God had not looked upon you in mercy, you were in such a condition, that all the Angels in Heaven, and all the Creatures in the world could not have helped you, there was such a dreadful breach between God and your Souls, that if all the Angels in Heaven, and men on earth would have been content to have died ⟨p. 626⟩to have made up our breach, it could not have been, this is your condition. Is there not cause then you should be low in your own eyes? look back to this condition, you see many vile Creatures going on in ways of wickedness, provoking the infinite wrath of God against them, and hanging over the pit of Hell by a twined Thread, and every moment are ready to be plunged into the bottomless Gulf, you were once thus, you were in as vile a condition as they.
Besides add to this, you were succorless, helpless, shiftless in your selves, you could never deliver your selves, you were wandring from God, and would have wandred eternally if God had not looked upon you in mercy, you were in such a condition, that all the Angels in Heaven, and all the Creatures in the world could not have helped you, there was such a dreadfull breach between God and your Souls, that if all the Angels in Heaven, and men on earth would have been content to have died ⟨p. 626⟩to have made up our breach, it could not have been, this is your condition. Is there not cause then you should be low in your own eyes? look back to this condition, you see many vile Creatures going on in waies of wickedness, provoking the infinite wrath of God against them, and hanging over the pit of Hell by a twined Thred, and every moment are ready to be plunged into the bottomless Gulf, you were once thus, you were in as vile a condition as they.
And consider further, What you might have been, you that are now in such a condition, that have perhaps excellent parts, I have spoken now only of our condition in regard of our spiritual Estate, you may consider of your condition in your rise and beginning, that what you find your selves made of was but Dust, what poor matter you were made of at first and so many of you have great estates that now you are proud of, but you were low enough, look back to what you were. So the Holy Ghost in