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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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Answ. Now to clear the point from all these difficulties, either what Christ saith of the straitness of the way to Heaven, or what the Saints of God find, or what may be said in regard of the Discipline of Christ in his Church, or what in regard of the suffering that Christ requires, notwithstanding all these, yet we hope we shall make it clear, that yet his yoke is easy, and his burden is light, and further we are to show how it comes to be easy and light.
Answ. Now to clear the point from all these difficulties, either what Christ saith of the straitness of the way to Heaven, or what the Saints of God find, or what may be said in regard of the Discipline of Christ in his Church, or what in regard of the suffering that Christ requires, notwithstanding all these, yet we hope we shall make it cleer, that yet his yoke is easie, and his burden is light, and further we are to shew how it comes to be easie and light.
But first to clear the Point from all these difficulties.
But first to cleer the Point from all these difficulties.
First: That of Christ, That the way to Heaven is a strait way, a very strait way, there must be crowding, and taking a great deal of pains.