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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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And further, Christ in the government of his Church will not have any officer over you but whom he appoints; indeed in a Civil State, they may appoint taskmasters, and what officers they please, but now in a Church State, Christ appoints every officer, and therefore all that rabble of Commissaries, Archdeacons, Deans, and Deans and Chapters is gone away, for there ought to be none such, and it is a great ease unto the Church of God to be rid of them.
And further, Christ in the goverment of his Church will not have any officer over you but whom he appoints; indeed in a Civil State, they may appoint taskmasters, and what officers they please, but now in a Church State, Christ appoints every officer, and therefore all that rabble of Commissaries, Archdeacons, Deans, and Deanes and Chapters is gone away, for there ought to be none such, and it is a great ease unto the Church of God to bee rid of them.
And again, you are to have none forced upon you, but what you your selves shall yield unto, they cannot in a domineering way say, you shall have such a Minister. It was enough before, that if a wench in an Alehouse, or an Hostler should have an uncle die, and leave them to be his heir, and an Advowson belonged to him, this Wench that lives in an alehouse, or an Hostler, Should have power to send any fellow that he will, if he can give account of his creed in Latin, to send one a ⟨p. 696⟩hundred miles, or one that they never saw in all their lives, and they to whom he was sent, must take this man to have charge over their souls, to depend upon this man for dispensation of all the ordinances of Jesus Christ as long as they live together, here was a burden. But now the way of Christ is, that there should be none that should take the Charge of Souls to dispense the ordinances of Christ, but such as the people themselves shall choose to themselves, that they shall be satisfied in before, and that they are faithful, and that they are fit by the gifts and graces of the spirit of God to take charge over their souls, and to dispense the ordinances of Christ in a right way, is not this now a great deal of ease?