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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 then the second thing is, The differences that there are between the ease that a carnal heart finds in the ways of Religion, and the ease that a true Gracious heart finds in the ways of Religion; those that are carnal, and take up but a mere formality of Religion, they find not ease, but those that are truly religious, they find rest.
And then the second thing is, The differences that there are between the ease that a carnall heart finds in the waies of Religion, and the ease that a true Gracious heart finds in the waies of Religion; those that are carnall, and take up but a meer formality of Religion, they find not ease, but those that are truly religious, they find rest.
And the third is this, If the ways of God be easy▪ How comes it to pass, that many that we hope are truly Gracious and Godly, yet make such complaints of so much difficulty as they do find in Gods ways.
And the third is this, If the waies of God be easie▪ How comes it to pass, that many that we hope are truly Gracious and Godly, yet make such complaints of so much difficulty as they do find in Gods waies.
And then fourthly, We are to open (which is the principal of all in the explication) wherein the easiness of Gods ways appears, what are those things that do make the ways of God so easy, and in what particulars doth consist the easiness that there is in the ways of Religion.
And then fourthly, We are to open (which is the principal of all in the explication) wherein the easiness of Gods waies appears, what are those things that do make the waies of God so easie, and in what particulars doth consist the easiness that there is in the waies of Religion.