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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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Here is the difference ⟨p. 705⟩between Afflictions and Duties, that if God would set a gracious heart free, he should choose rather to be without afflictions though it is true, in regard of the good that God brings about in them, so they are good, but in themselves they are evil, and so a Godly man should rather desire to be without them but now, for the duties of religion & Godliness, there we are not to desire & wish to be without them, or that they were otherwise then they are, A gracious heart is not to wish any command of Jesus Christ to be otherwise then it is, and when at any time you find such a rising in your hearts, as to wish that such a thing were not a duty, know, that now temptation comes and corruption stirs. You may not do it perhaps, but you may have a corruption stir so far, as to wish it were otherwise, certainly, this is a great temptation, when the heart is in a right frame, it would not wish any thing in the ways of Christ otherwise then they are, if he were left to himself, he would himself choose them. That is the first.
Here is the difference ⟨p. 705⟩between Afflictions and Duties, that if God would set a gracious heart free, he should choose rather to be without afflictions though it is true, in regard of the good that God brings about in them, so they are good, but in themselves they are evil, and so a Godly man should rather desire to be without them but now, for the duties of religion & Godliness, there we are not to desire & wish to be without them, or that they were otherwise then they are, A gracious heart is not to wish any command of Jesus Christ to be otherwise then it is, and when at any time you find such a rising in your hearts, as to wish that such a thing were not a duty, know, that now temptation comes and corruption stirrs. You may not do it perhaps, but you may have a corruption stir so farr, as to wish it were otherwise, certainly, this is a great temptation, when the heart is in a right frame, it would not wish any thing in the waies of Christ otherwise then they are, if he were left to himself, he would himself choose them. That is the first.