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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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it is a shame to me that I should ever dishonour the blessed God, that hope to receive such great satisfaction from God, it is fit that I should come and repair the honour of this God, Oh! this is the honour of a Christian, and therefore I beseech you have no hard thoughts of the ways of Jesus Christ in his Church.
it is a shame to me that I should ever dishonor the blessed God, that hope to receive such great satisfaction from God, it is fit that I should come and repaire the honor of this God, Oh! this is the honor of a Christian, and therefore I beseech you have no hard thoughts of the waies of Jesus Christ in his Church.
And consider yet further, for the easiness of it, that Christ gives a charge to all his Saints, that if thou be humbled and givest Satisfaction, that they should restore thee with all meekness, and Gentleness, and if there should be any one that should insult over thee, and any way deride and scorn thee certainly, Jesus Christ will reckon with such a one for that, and there is no sin that goes more against the Spirit of Jesus Christ, then For any one to insult over those that come in the trouble of their spirits to repair the honour of God that they have impaired by their sins. Christ requires that every one should mourn with thee, as thou art sorrowful and lamentest over thy sin, so they should have their hearts melt for thy sins, and should endeavour to have their hearts sensible of thy sins as thou art, and and they that are acquainted with the ways of Christ in his Church, they have found it so, they have found all the Congregation aswell to fall a lamenting and bursting ou• in tears aswell as thy self, thou bursting out in pea•es for thy sins, and they praying and seeking unto God that he would forgive thy sins, and all the congregation doth thi•, now is not this better, then […] should go on to rankle in his sin, is in not better that he should ⟨p. 695⟩come into a Congregation, and give glory to God and lament it before him, and all the Congregation lament, and they all send up their sighs and groans for pardoning of this offender, and restoring of him, and for the lifting up the light of Gods countenance upon him, if your heart were humble, you would find it a great dale of ease, for the truth is, you cannot expect to have ease before you have done this, those that have offended, though they have gone in their closets and sought God, yet have had no rest but upon this, now God doth usually grant abundance of ease, peace, and joy in Christ, that it is a thousand times more ease to their spirits, then for them to go on in their sin, and let their sin rankle.