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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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6. Labour by wisdom to order the duties of your condition, that is thus, Labour for wisdom to know what is suitable to your condition, and order the duties about that condition: many think, Oh! if I ⟨p. 762⟩were in such a place as such a one is, I would do thus and thus, but you should look upon the duties of your present condition, what is the condition that I am now in? I am a servant, what is my duty in that condition? not what is the duty of a governor. And so in a single estate, what is the duty of this condition? not what is the duty of a married Condition, and so in a Married Condition, what is the duty of that? And so when you are in affliction, what is your duty at that time? or if so be that God call you to humiliation, you should mind the duty of humiliation, And when God calls you to rejoicing you should know the duty of that time. Some when God calls them to rejoicing, they think they must be humbled, and when they are called to be humbled, they think they should rejoice, and when they are called to believing, then they will be poring upon their corruptions, and when God calls them to searching of their hearts, they have thoughts of matter of joy. Now wisdom to suite our duty to our condition, and to apply our duty to that condition, is a great ease to the soul. Now many times we are thinking of a duty at one time, that is not the duty of that time, may be when one is sick, Oh! they are many times troubled that they cannot go to hear the word, and mere with Gods people, and spend so much time in prayer, and meditation, and reading as they were wont to do, and upon this they trouble themselves, now this is not the duty of your condition, the duty of your condition at that time is to sanctify Gods name in your affliction and to quiet your heart under the hand of God and the duty of your condition is not to go to hear sermons now, but to think of what you have heard heretofore, the duty of your condition now is not to spend so much time in your closet in prayer as when you were in ⟨p. 763⟩health, and you are troubled for the want of this, we often trouble our selves about those duties that are not the duties of our present condition, and that makes them difficult, now wisdom in ordering our duties will much help to facilitate them.
6. Labor by wisdom to order the duties of your condition, that is thus, Labor for wisdom to know what is suitable to your condition, and order the duties about that condition: many think, Oh! if I