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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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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.
It is true, It is strait, it is a very strait way to men that are but natural, that are not his Disciples, it must needs be a strait in their apprehensions, in the esteem of the world, the way that Christ doth propound to come to Heaven it must needs I say be very strait, and a very difficult way in the esteem of the men of the world, and that upon these grounds.
It is true, It is strait, it is a very strait way to men that are but naturall, that are not his Disciples, it must needs be a strait in their apprehensions, in the esteem of the world, the way that Christ doth propound to come to Heaven it must needs I say be very strait, and a very difficult way in the esteem of the men of the world, and that upon these grounds.
1. They do not know wherein the true spiritual excellencies of the ways of Christ doth consist, they do not understand what the excellency of Christs ways are.
1. They do not know wherein the true spirituall excellenc•es of the waies of Christ dorh consist, they do not understand what the excellency of Christs waies are.