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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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3. They are weak, and have not the strength that should carry them on in the ways of God, indeed it must needs be difficult, to think to do that which is supernatural & have nothing but a natural strength, it must needs be hard to nature that hath nothing but weakness, it must needs be hard to the men of the world, for they have a great many prejudices against the ways of Christ, they must deny themselves in many things that are as dear to themselves as their very Souls, and their lives, and they have nothing to make up their comforts, they must deny their comforts, and have nothing to make up their comforts, this must needs be difficult and hard, and so many grounds might be shown, that the way to Heaven is hard to the men of the world, a hard thing for them to enter upon the way to Heaven, and so it is strait to them in their esteem.
3. They are weak, and have not the strength that should carry them on in the waies of God, indeed it must needs be difficult, to think to do that which is supernatural & have nothing but a natural strength, it must needs be hard to nature that hath nothing but weakness, it must needs be hard to the men of the world, for they have a great many prejudices against the waies of Christ, they must denie themselves in many things that are as dear to themselves as their very Souls, and their lives, and they have nothing to make up their comforts, they must denie their comforts, and have nothing to make up their comforts, this must needs be difficult and hard, and so many grounds might be shewn, that the way to Heaven is hard to the men of the world, a hard thing for them to enter upon the way to Heaven, and so it is strait to them in their esteem.
Quest. I but further. Is it not strait unto the Saints, even to the very Disciples of Christ, Do not they find difficulties in the ways of God?
Quest. I but further. Is it not strait unto the Saints, even to the very Disciples of Christ, Do not they find difficulties in the waies of God?