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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 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 Ezek. 16. when he would humble the People, he bids them look back to what they were, Your Father an Amorite, and your Mother an Hittite, and you were cast out into the Streets. These things if we intended to speak of them largely, they would take up a great deal of time to show them, only now to hint the heads of some meditations to you to humble your selves.
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 spirituall 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 Ezek. 16. when he would humble the People, he bids them look back to what they were, Your Father an Amorite, and your Mother an Hitite, and you were cast out into the Streets. These things if we intended to speak of them largely, they would take up a great deal of time to shew them, only now to hint the heads of some meditations to you to humble your selves.
But Secondly: Consider what you might have been if the Lord had taken advantage of you, you are now in a comfortable condition, now you come among the People of God into the assembly of the Saints, but you might have been among the damned Reprobates, you might have been roaring in Hell, and sweltering under the wrath of the infinite God; when others of Gods people were assembled to