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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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WE are now to proceed unto another thing, and that is, The sufferings about those things that Christ requires: though to do those things that ⟨p. 699⟩Christ requires may seem to be easy, yet to bear and suffer those heavy things that we read that Christians did suffer in former times when they came under the yoke of Christ, and which we are like to suffer in the cause of Christ, now especially, if the Lord should let the Adversary prevail over us, we may come to suffer those things that would be very hard, whereas if we had liberty of Conscience as others have, that we could go any way this way or that way, so as may serve our own turn, and be suitable to our own ends, we might avoid a great deal of suffering, but now when we come under the yoke of Jesus Christ, we must keep on in the right way, we must keep on in the way of suffering, whatever sufferings come we must not decline the ways of Christ in the word.
VVE are now to proceed unto another thing, and that is, The sufferings about those things that Christ requires: though to do those things that ⟨p. 699⟩Christ requires may seem to be easie, yet to bear and suffer those heavy things that we read that Christians did suffer in former times when they came under the yoke of Christ, and which we are like to suffer in the cause of Christ, now especially, if the Lord should let the Adversary prevail over us, we may come to suffer those things that would be very hard, wheras if we had liberty of Conscience as others have, that we could go any way this way or that way, so as may serve our own turn, and be suitable to our own ends, we might avoid a great deal of suffering, but now when we come under the yoke of Jesus Christ, we must keep on in the right way, we must keep on in the way of suffering, whatever sufferings come we must not decline the waies of Christ in the word.
Now for Answer unto this: The Scripture doth not judg it so hard a thing to suffer for Christ as thou seemest to judg it to be, see what the Scripture judgeth it to be, St. Paul speaking of his sufferings that he endured, in