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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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Ephraim is a Heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the ⟨image 124⟩Corn, Ephraim counted that an easy work to tread out the corn, the meaning is this, the Cattle in those times, some were used to plough the ground, and others to tread out the corn, Now those that were ploughing, they were abroad in the fields, and endured the storms, and all the while eat nothing till they come home, and then they eat, But now those cattle that were treading out the corn, all the while they were treading out the corn, and working, they were feeding upon the corn, now saith God, Ephraim is a tender delicate thing, he doth not love to go all the day to his work, and receive his wages at night, but he loves to tread out the corn, he loves to receive his wages continually in his work. Thus it is with a Godly heart he is upon the receiving hand continually and his work is but as the treading out of the corn, rather then ploughing. That is the Sixth.
Ephraim is a Heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the ⟨image 124⟩Corn, Eph•aim counted that an easy worke to tread out the corne, the meaning is this, the Cattel in those times, some were used to plow the ground, and others to tread out the corn, Now those that were plowing, they were abroad in the fields, and indured the stormes, and all the while eate nothing til they come home, and then they eate, But now those cattel that were treading out the corne, all the while they were treading out the corne, and working, they were feeding upon the corn, now saith God, Ephraim is a tender delicate thing, he doth not love to go all the day to his work, and receive his wages at night, but he loves to tread out the corn, he loves to receive his wages continually in his work. Thus it is with a Godly heart he is upon the receiving hand continually and his work is but as the treading out of the corn, rather then plowing. That is the Sixth.
Seventhly, The ways of God must needs be eas• because let a man set upon the ways of Godliness, and every thing in the world shall help him, no passage of Gods providence but shall help him, no creature but shall help him, no ordinance but shall help him, nay those things that seem to go quite contrary they Shall help him; now it is easy to go when all things help one, when wind and Tide help you. I but you will say, may be we may meet with a contrary wind, I but when that contrary wind shall help you, as I have seen some that have made use of a contrary wind, So it is with Godly people, all all good things help and encourage them, and ill things are turned by God to be helpful to them, and to be good to them, Yea, many have found help in the ways of God, by the strongest temptation that they have met withal in their very faces, Yea, sometimes that God turns