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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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It is in this, that herein the Yoke of Antichrist is an Iron Yoke, that it will have a violent, Base, Forced belief, and forced alteration of a mans judgment, that if he were but merely a man▪ he▪ must suffer all the torments •n the world rather then come to alter his judgment before he be convinced of it: Certainly, if a man have but reason▪ the Reason of a man, the spirit of a man, if one should come and say, you must believe this to be true, he would say, I but I must understand first that it is true, Certainly, he would be •orne in pieces with wild Horses, rather then alter his judgment before he be convinced of i•, but for a man to come and s•y, you must believe this to be true, and he say, I but I do not believe it to be true, no, then you must be made to believe it by imprisonment, and Banishment, and confiscation of your goods, and the like, Oh what a bondage is this? And this is the bondage of Antichrist.
It is in this, that herein the Yoke of Antichrist is an Iron Yoke, that it will have a violent, Base, Forced beliefe, and forced alteration of a mans ju•gment, that if he were but meerly a man▪ he▪ must suffer all the torments •n the world rather then come to alter his judgment before he be convinced of it: Certainly, if a man have but reason▪ the Reason of a man, the spirit of a man, if one should come and say, you must beleeve this to be t•ue, he would say, I but I must understand first that it is true, Certainly, he would be •orne in pieces with wild Horses, rather then alter his judgment before he be convinced of i•, but for a man to come and s•y, you must beleeve this to be true, and he say, I but I do not beleeve it to be true, no, then you must be made to beleeve it by imprisonment, and Banishment, and confiscation of your goods, and the like, Oh what a bondage is this? And this is the bondage of Antichrist.