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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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4. Another rule is this, do not loose your encouragements, that that you have had from what good God doth bestow upon you, and enable you to do, take heed of loosing that encouragement, many Christians are altogether looking upon what they ought to do, what God requires of them to do, and because they have had not yet attained unto what they ought to do, and what is required of them to do, therefore they find no encouragement from what the Lord hath already bestowed upon them what the Lord hath already enabled them to do, they wholly neglect that, and never think of it, they think of what they want, and what they should have, and what they should do, and so they are labouring to get what they should have, and to do what they should do, but for what God hath enabled them to do already, or what God hath given them already, that they do not think of, and for want of those encouragements, they make their endeavours for the getting of more to be burdensome to them; but now, when we are endeavouring to do ⟨p. 760⟩more we should go on in the strength of this encouragement, Oh, blessed be God for any little. You shall have Christians thinking of what they should do, and therefore they think all the grace they have is nothing, Oh! say they, that which I have done what is it? It is true, if we were looked upon in the way of the Covenant of works it is nothing, but in the way of the Covenant of Grace, it is a great deal: now that will be a great ease to your souls, labour to get more, and do more for God, but still carry along with you the encouragement of what God hath done for you, when you pray for any grace, bless God for any grace you have: Take notice of all the encouragement that God doth give you, and that will help you to go on in any further work that God calls you unto, and the want of this makes the lives of many Christians to be very grievous and burdensome unto them, because they neglect those encouragements they might have from what God hath enabled them to do, and from what God hath done already for them.
4. Another rule is this, do not loose your incouragements, that that you have had from what good God doth bestow upon you, and inable you to do, take heed of loosing that incouragement, many Christians are altogether looking upon what they ought to do, what God requires of them to do, and because they have had not yet attained unto what they ought to do, and what is required of them to do, therefore they find no incouragement from what the Lord hath already bestowed upon them what the Lord hath already inabled them to do, they wholly neglect that, and never think of it, they think of what they want, and what they should have, and what they should do, and so they are labouring to get what they should have, and to do what they should do, but for what God hath inabled them to do already, or what God hath given them already, that they do not think of, and for want of those incouragements, they make their endeavours for the getting of more to be burdensome to them; but now, when we are endeavouring to do