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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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Evidence 4.
Fourthly: It is an easy Yoke certainly, for it is Christs Yoke, it must needs be easy, because it is Christs, and that upon these two grounds.
Fourthly: It is an easie Yoke certainly, for it is Christs Yoke, it must needs be easie, because it is Christs, and that upon these two grounds.
First: Christ himself is Gentle, and Sweet, and Lovely, Christ himself hath no Rigidness, no Sourness in him towards People, as you heard at large when we opened the Meekness and Lowliness of Christ, now if Christ be meek and lowly, he loves no bitterness and rigidness. If I had to deal with a man that I were sure had all the Meekness, and all the Love and all the Gentleness in him of all the men in the world that ever lived, put all their Meekness, and Gentleness, and Sweetness together into one man, and I were sure I should never have any Yoke upon me but what that man should lay upon me, truly, I would never fear any rigidness. One man hath Meekness and Gentleness, I but he hath Rigidness too, and another man hath one drop, and another another drop, I but put all these into one, and surely that man hath a great deal of Meekness, now Jesus Christ hath all in him, and if it be his Yoke, then it must needs be easy.
First: Christ himself is Gentle, and Sweet, and Lovely, Christ himself hath no Rigidness, no Sowrness in him towards People, as you heard at large when we opened the Meekness and Lowliness of Christ, now if Christ be meek and lowly, he loves no bitterness and rigidness. If I had to deal with a man that I were sure had all the Meekness, and al the Love and all the Gentleness in him of all the men in the world that ever lived, put all their Meekness, and Gentleness, and Sweetness together into one man, and I were sure I should never have any Yoke upon me but what that man should lay upon me, truly, I would never fear any rigidness. One man hath Meekness and Gentleness, I but he hath Rigidness too, and another man hath one drop, and another another drop, I but put all these into one, and surely that man hath a great deal of Meekness, now Jesus Christ hath all in him, and if it be his Yoke, then it must needs be easie.