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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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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 ⟨p. 714⟩their sins, their stepping out of the way to be helps unto them, their very falls, as a man when •e stumbles in his way, it makes him go the softer, you will put your Horse out upon his stumbling, and make him go the faster, God turns the worst things of all to the People of God to help them in their way, so that by Grace now, we do not only help our selves so, as to keep off the hinderances to other things, we do not overcome the world (as sometimes I have said) thus to keep our selves from being hurt by it, but to make all things useful and serviceable to our graces, and that is the excellency of a Christian, that he can by grace make all things in the world serviceable to his grace, that is the glory of grace, it shows that grace is of a royal breed indeed, that it can bring all things to be serviceable to its end, therefore the ways of God are easy, because all things are helpful to the encouragement of a Child of God in those ways.
Seventhly, The waies of God must needs be eas• because let a man set upon the waies 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 Shal 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 shal help you, as I have seen some that have made use of a contray 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 waies of God, by the strongest temptation that they have met withall in their very faces, Yea, somtimes that God turnes