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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. CXLIV.
The Yoke of Christ easier then the Yoke of Sin, and Antichrist.
Well, the next is the Yoke of Sin, the Yoke of Christ is far easier then that, sin is the greatest slavery in the World, it makes a man or woman a slave to the worst of Creatures that ever was made; to the Devil himself, to be a slave to sin it is to be a slave to the Devil, we have many bills sent up to us, to pray for those that are taken captives in Argire, it may be there are some of you here that have been taken slaves there, and you count that a miserable Yoke, when you are made slaves to the Turk, you thought your friends that were at home were happy that had their liberty to go up and down. Now Oh! you that ever felt that Yoke, or that have heard the doleful complaint of that Yoke by your friends, that you would by that be sensible of the slavery to sin, and to the Devil: is it no• better to be in slavery to any men in the world then to the Devil? When you go abroad you must needs go into the Alehouses, to drink, and to be amongst company, and abuse your bodies to drunkenness, and uncleanness, and you have eyes full of adultery that cannot cease to sin, and you will excuse your selves, and say, you cannot do otherwise, •hen you are slaves, and are taken captive by the Devil to do according to his will, that Text you ha•e for ⟨p. 727⟩it in