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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Easy. The word here that you have translated in your Books, Easy, is Crestos in the Greek, a word that signifies Profitable, Utility, and Commodious: so it might be turned; and upon this, those that were called Christians (Justin Martyr hath such an expression) he called them Crestians, from this word, because they were men that were useful and profitable, and so they might be called Crestians as well as Christians, my Yoke is profitable and that makes it easy, whatsoever it be that a man undertakes, yet if it bring much profit with it, you count it easy, you that take a great deal of pains and endure much difficulty at Sea, go to the Indies, yet if it bring in profit, you count it easy, because there is so much profit co•es in.
Easie. The word here that you have translated in your Books, Easie, is Crestos in the Greek, a word that signifies Profitable, Ʋtility, and Commodious: so it might be turned; and upon this, those that were called Christians (Justin Martyr hath such an expression) he called them Crestians, from this word, because they were men that were usefull and profitable, and so they might be called Crestians as wel as Christians, my Yoak is profitable and that makes it easie, whatsoever it be that a man undertakes, yet if it bring much profit with it, you count it easie, you that take a great deal of pains and endure much difficulty at Sea, go to the Indies, yet if it bring in profit, you count it easie, because there is so much profit co•es in.
Secondly: As the word signifies Profit, so it signifies Gentleness, in opposition to Severity, to roughness, harshness, or rigidness, and so I find the word in Rom. 11. 22. saith the Apostle, Behold the goodness and severity of God, there it is, Crestos, of easiness, for so Crestos there is the same word, only here is the Adjective, and there the Substantive, the easiness, and gentleness, and severity of God, severity and gentleness opposed to one another, God is very gentle, and sweet, and good unto some, and is very severe unto others. So, Take my Yoke upon you, for it is easy,