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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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For, First: There is agreement enough between any Duty they perform and their secret sins, they can perform holy Duties and keep their sins both together, and this now they find very easy. There is nothing in holy Duties that is against their sin, yea, there is something in holy Duties that makes for their sins, I do not say holy Duties in their own natures makes for their sins, but their performing of them makes for their sins, makes them the more quiet in their sins. As thus, It makes more for ⟨p. 659⟩their sins, and they have more quiet in them upon two Peasons.
For, First: There is agreement enough between any Duty they perform and their secret sins, they can perform holy Duties and keep their sins both together, and this now they find very easie. There is nothing in holy Duties that is against their sin, yea, there is somthing in holy Duties that makes for their sins, I do not say holy Duties in their own natures makes for their sins, but their performing of them makes for their sins, makes them the more quiet in their sins. As thus, It makes more for ⟨p. 659⟩their sins, and they have more quiet in them upon two Peasons.
As first by this means sometimes their corruption and sin is hidden, as you that have many Servants that are naught and vile, they will be very forward in good things, and go to Sermons, and Prayer and the like, that they might hide much of their sin, that they might not be uspected to be such and such, therefore they perform Duties of Religion; and now these Duties must needs be very easy to them: And so it is with many Hypocrites that go beyond civill men, and the Duties of Religion that that they perform, are more than civill men do, they will not only come to Church, but seem to be affected, not only be exercised in the ordinary Duties, but in extraordinary, Fasting and Prayer, not only come to hear the word, but repeat it in their Families afterwards, not only pray here, but pray in their Families, and Closets, yet so, as to cover their corruption, to cover their very filthiness, now these Duties are very easy.