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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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Consequence, 2.
And that may be a Second Particular, a great aggravation of the wickedness of mens hearts, and of their lives, saith the Lord in his word▪ • have sent my Son into the World, to bring my mercy and goodness and love unto you, and he is come for to deliver you from a heavy yoke, and to lay an easy yoke upon you, and to bring you to Heaven that way, but now you refuse and reject him▪ and will rather endure more hardship in your refusing of him, and in damning your Souls then in subjecting to him, and saving your Souls eternally. Oh it will be a dreadful aggravation of mens sins at the great day, what a dishonour do men •ut upon Jesus Christ, whenas they by their actions do as much as if they should say, Oh, the yoke that Christ will put upon mens Necks is into lerable, we cannot bear it, ⟨p. 739⟩I will rather be under the yoke of sin, and under the yoke of the Devil, and under the yoke of Antichrist, then under the Yoke of Jesus Christ, whereas the truth is, Jesus Christ is come into the world to bring such a way of Sweetness, and Love, and Mercy, and Ease unto us, as if all the Angels in Heaven, and men in the world, had set all their Wisdoms on work from the beginning of the world, to find out a way to bring us to Heaven, they could not have found out such a way as this, and yet this way to be refused, Oh the aggravation of men at that day! And the truth is, that which I have delivered to you out of this Text, if you shall yet continue under the yoke of your sins, and be bond-slaves to the Devil in your wicked courses, these things shall another day rise up in Judgment to stop your Mouths, when this shall be brought against you, did not you live in such a Town? And such a place; And where you heard such a Text opened to you, that if you would come to Jesus Christ his yoke was easy, and his burden was light, and that the way of Jesus Christ brought such sweetness, and love, and mercy? And yet you refused it, and you would choose rather to be a bondslaves to my enemy the Devil, then come under the yoke of my son, Oh, How will this aggravate your sin another day!