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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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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 2 Cor. 12. 10. Therefore I take pleasure in Infirmities, in Reproaches, in Necessities, in Persecution, in Distresses for Christs sake, the word is in the Original, I am well pleased, here I take pleasure, I am well pleased in Infirmities, in Reproaches, in Necessities, in Persecutions, in Distresses, I am well pleased in them all: Certainly, that that a man hath a good pleasure to, that he can be well pleased with, that is easy, a man must needs have ease in a thing that he is well pleased in, now the Apostle professeth that he is well pleased in that which he suffered for Christ, and we are never like to be called to suffer so great things as he suffered.
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 2 Cor. 12. 10. Therefore I take pleasure in Infirmities, in Reproaches, in Necessities, in Persecution, in Distresses for Christs sake, the word is in the Original, I am well pleased, here I take pleasure, I am well pleased in Infirmities, in Reproaches, in Necessities, in Persecutions, in Distresses, I am well pleased in them all: Certainly, that that a man hath a good pleasure to, that he can be well pleased with, that is easie, a man must needs have ease in a thing that he is well pleased in, now the Apostle professeth that he is well pleased in that which he suffered for Christ, and we are never like to be called to suffer so great things as he suffered.
And as the Scripture sets out sufferings as those things that a man may be well pleased in, so likewise we may rejoice in them. That place in Luke 6. 23