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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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when you tender a Child or a Friend, you will not require of them any thing that may grieve them, now Christ hath so tender regard unto you that are the Servants of God, that he will require nothing of you that will grieve you, and therefore if nothing be grievous in Gods Commandments, surely his Yoke is easy, and his Burden is light.
when you tender a Child or a Friend, you wil not require of them any thing that may grieve them, now Christ hath so tender regard unto you that are the Servants of God, that he will require nothing of you that wil grieve you, and therfore if nothing be grievous in Gods Commandments, surely his Yoke is e•sie, and his Burden is light.
But now for the opening of this Point (for there ⟨p. 640⟩is a great deal that had need to be said to it for the opening of it, and making it useful and profitable) I shall cast what my meditations have been about this Point into these Six heads.
But now for the opening of this Point (for there ⟨p. 640⟩is a great deal that had need to be said to it for the opening of it, and making it usefull and profitable) I shall cast what my meditations have been about this Point into these Six heads.
The first is, To give you some Evidences of it, that this is so.