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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, what a great deal of ease is in the ways of Christ in his Church, when the officer is such as Christ appoints and you approve?
And further, what a great deal of ease is in the waies of Christ in his Church, when the officer is such as Christ appoints and you approve?
And further, when they are there, they have no liberty to make any new law, but just as Jesus Christ hath made, they cannot obtrude any thing upon you to believe and do, but they must show that Jesus Christ would have you to believe and do the same: Now in Civil states, it is otherwise, there you may be required to do things that you cannot find directly in the word, if it be a thing that the officer thinks reasonable to be done, if it be not contrary to the word, it is enough, if it be a thing rational, that may suite with the public good of a Country, or Kingdom, it is enough: but now, when it comes to the Church, the Church officers, it is not enough for them that there is nothing in the word against it, but they must have it out of Gods word, and this is a great ease, that I shall have nothing imposed upon me but what Jesus Christ would have me to have, and to do many other particulars might be showed ⟨p. 697⟩for the opening of the yoke of Christ, differing from the yoke of the Civil State.
And further, when they are there, they have no liberty to make any new law, but just as Jesus Christ hath made, they cannot obtrude any thing upon you to beleeve and do, but they must shew that Jesus Christ would have you to beleeve and do the same: Now in Civil states, it is otherwise, there you may be required to do things that you cannot find directly in the word, if it be a thing that the officer thinks reasonable to be done, if it be not contrary to the word, it is enough, if it be a thing rational, that may suite with the publick good of a Country, or Kingdom, it is enough: but now, when it comes to the Church, the Church officers, it is not enough for them that there is nothing in the word against it, but they must have it out of Gods word, and this is a great ease, that I shall have nothing imposed upon me but what Jesus Christ would have me to have, and to do many other particulars might be shewed