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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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CHAP. CXLII.
What the things are that makes the ways of Christ easy (which is the fourth point in Chap. 139.) opened in five particulars. 1. They are such as a gracious Soul will impose upon himself. 2. He comes freely off to them. 3. The ways of Christ are even, and not contrary one to another. 4. They bring Strength with them. 5. In them all there is good Success. 6. In them a gracious heart is always receiving his wages. 7. He hath all the passages of Gods providence to help him. 8. They bring ease to the Conscience. 9. They free the Soul from cares. 10. They make all other things easy.
What the things are that makes the waies of Christ easie (which is the fourth point in Chap. 139.) opened in five particulars. 1. They are such as a gracious Soul wil impose upon himself. 2. He comes freely off to them. 3. The waies of Christ are even, and not contrary one to another. 4. They bring Strength with them. 5. In them all there is good Success. 6. In them a gracious heart is alwaies receiving his wages. 7. He hath all the passages of Gods providence to help him. 8. They bring ease to the Conscience. 9. They free the Soul from cares. 10. They make all other things easie.
But now we are to proceed to a further thing to show you what there is in the way of Christ that makes it easy, which will be a further manifestation of the ease that there is in the ways of Christ that it is so, that hath been showed you before!: but now that it must needs be so, and how it comes to be so, how it comes to pass that the ways of Christ should have such ease to a gracious heart, Certainly, there is a great many Grounds for it.