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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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Thirdly, Another thing that makes them easy is this, The ways of Christ, there is an evenness in them, there is a proportion in all the ways of Jesus Christ, there is not one thing contrary unto another, but every thing helps one another, and so they come to be easy. You know in other things, when ⟨p. 709⟩you are going in any path where there lies things, to interrupt you, there lies a great deal of Difficulty in your going, but when the way is so laid, as that there is no one thing in it but helps to another, if you take one step that helps you to another, and that step helps you to another, and so there is such an evenness and proportion as one helps to another If you be drawing a thing that one link helps another, and one lets into another, this makes it easy, when every action of a mans work is such, as the first makes the second easy, and the second the third, and the third the fourth, that work must needs be easy; so in all the ways of Jesus Christ, one duty lets in another; and this is the difference between one that is truly acquainted with the ways of religion, and an Hypocrite, the one, when he sets upon one duty, that one duty so tires him, that he hath no mind to another, but now a godly heart, one duty doth but let him in another, by performing one duty, he is fitted to another duty, and this is a sign you perform duty in a right way, when it is thus with you, it is true, the outward man may be tired, but yet the heart is in a better frame to perform duty the next time, one duty is an in let into another, and helps on the other, that is a Third.
Thirdly, Another thing that makes them easy is this, The waies of Christ, there is an evenness in them, there is a proportion in all the waies of Jesus Christ, there is not one thing contrary unto another, but every thing helps one another, and so they come to be easy. You know in other things, when ⟨p. 709⟩you are going in any path where there lyes things, to interrupt you, there lyes a great deal of Difficulty in your going, but when the way is so laid, as that there is no one thing in it but helps to another, if you take one step that helps you to another, and that step helps you to another, and so there is such an evenness and proportion as one helps to another If you be drawing a thing that one link helps another, and one lets into another, this makes it easy, when every action of a mans work is such, as the first makes the second easy, and the second the third, and the third the fourth, that work must needs be easy; so in all the waies of Jesus Christ, one duty lets in another; and this is the difference between one that is truly acquainted with the waies of religion, and an Hypocrite, the one, when he sets upon one duty, that one duty so tires him, that he hath no mind to another, but now a godly heart, one duty doth but let him in another, by performing one duty, he is fitted to another duty, and this is a sign you performe duty in a right way, when it is thus with you, it is true, the outward man may be tired, but yet the heart is in a better frame to performe duty the next time, one duty is an in let into another, and helps on the other, that is a Third.