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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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Fourthly, Evangelical obedience, it bears the heart upon the strength of Jesus Christ, upon Christs strength, to look up to him; when we go to Duty, not to be tiring our selves, and think to carry it out by main strength of our own, but to look up to him, and bear our selves upon Christ, upon his strength.
Fifthly, Evangelical obedience, it is not an obedience upon which our eternal life depends, we are not to look upon what we do, as any part of the Covenant of eternal life, as that which our eternal ⟨p. 753⟩life depends, not as a covenant of works upon which eternal life depends: but the safety of our Souls and eternal life is in another way, and all that which we do is rather in way of thankfulness unto God for the mercy that God hath granted to us, and the eternal life that Christ hath purchased for us already; this is Evangelical obedience, now if our obedience and Duties were after this manner performed, they would be very easy, if we would but do thus, this it is to obey evangelically▪ If we could come as children to obey our Father, and know, that the uprightness of our hearts is accepted, and to look upon every Commandment as having a promise annexed to it, and to bear our selves upon the strength of Christ, and to look upon every Duty only as a testimony of our thankfulness to God for eternal life purchased for us, rather then a part of the Covenant of eternal life: Now this obedience hath a great deal of ease in it. But because we have spoken largely heretofore about the difficulty of the burden of the Law, and of the rest of the Soul from under it, it shall be sufficient to name it at this time, but if we would have ease in the ways of Christ, we must perform all our obedience in an Evangelical way, and I will add this one thing to it.
Fifthly, Evangelical obedience, it is not an obedience upon which our eternal life depends, we are not to look upon what we do, as any part of the Covenant of eternal life, as that which our eternal ⟨p. 753⟩