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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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Yea, If God had taken you away divers years since without the knowledge of him, and the knowledge of his Son, In what case had you been in, if you had died when such a kinsman of yours died, or such a Neighbour of yours died, where had you been? When you fit in your houses with your Wife and Children about you, consider what you might have been, I that sit here, and have the day of Grace continued to me, might have been in the bottomless Gulf, I might have been cursing and blaspheming God, you that God hath wrought something upon, you desire to fear him, and you come to worship him, and have some delight to worship him, if God had left you to your self, you might have gone cursing and swearing, and blaspheming, & committing any vileness that any the most vilest have committed. It may God hath enlarged your heart in Prayer, I but if God had left you to your self, instead of being enlarged in prayer, you might have been cursing and blaspheming God: Now this is a mighty means to humble your heart.
Yea, If God had taken you away divers yeers since without the knowledg of him, and the knowledg of his Son, In what case had you been in, if you had died when such a kinsman of yours died, or such a Neighbor of yours died, where had you been? When you fit in your houses with your Wife and Children about you, consider what you might have been, I that sit here, and have the day of Grace continued to me, might have been in the bottomless Gulf, I might have been cursing and blaspheming God, you that God hath wrought something upon, you desire to fear him, and you come to worship him, and have some delight to worship him, if God had left you to your self, you might have gone cursing and swearing, and blaspheming, & committing any vileness that any the most vilest have committed. It may God hath enlarged your heart in Prayer, I but if God had left you to your self, instead of being enlarged in prayer, you might have been cursing and blaspheming God: Now this is a mighty means to humble your heart.
Besides, What you might have been in regard of poverty, in regard of pain and sickness, you now are comfortable in your Houses, and sit with wives and Children, and delight one in another, you might have been in extremity of torment and pain, you might have lost your senses, and lost your limbs, and a Hundred such things might be named, that if you would give your meditations out upon these things, you might find enough to keep your hearts low before God.