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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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7. Another Rule is this, In the performance of duties, you should ease your selves of the care of the success of what you do, about success, or discouragement for want of success; nothing makes our lives more troublesome, and our work more difficult than our carking care about success, I will do this and this, but I am afraid I shall not have success, or if I have success, not such as I desire, but now, if you would perform duties in a gracious manner, look to the duty perform that, and cast the care wholly upon God, it is enough for me to do what is required of me as a creature to do, and let God himself take care of that that belongs to him, and that is the success. I told you, in the opening of the ease, that there is certain success, and yet we might trouble our selves in carking about success; now if we can go on in performance of duty, and never be troubled about success, it will be exceeding easy, but Christians find sometimes that though they have been diligent in performance of duty, yet they do not find success, they find nothing comes of it, and this troubles them, & this makes them go heavily to the duty at another time, I but observe that whatever duty you perform, if you do not find present success you must not conclude that there will be no success, the carking about the success in things, makes the work extraordinary difficult, now if we could bring our hearts to this, Lord, I am where thou wouldst have me, and doing what thou wouldst have me, and as for the success that belongs not to my work but to thy self, I walk according to that that is thy will, and as for success I will leave that to thy self.
7. Another Rule is this, In the performance of duties, you should ease your selves of the care of the success of what you do, about success, or discouragement for want of success; nothing makes our lives more troublesom, and our work more difficult than our carking care about success, I wil do this and this, but I am afraid I shal not have success, or if I have success, not such as I desire, but now, if you would perform duties in a gracious manner, look to the duty perform that, and cast the care wholly upon God, it is enough for me to do what is required of me as a creature to do, and let God himself take care of that that belongs to him, and that is the success. I told you, in the opening of the ease, that there is certain success, and yet we might trouble our selves in carking about success; now if we can go on in performance of duty, and never be troubled about success, it wil be exceeding easie, but Christians find somtimes that though they have been diligent in performance of duty, yet they do not find success, they find nothing comes of it, and this troubles them, & this makes them go heavily to the duty at another time, I but observe that whatever duty you perform, if you do not find present success you must not conclude that there wil be no success, the carking about the success in things, makes the work extraordinary difficult, now if we could bring our hearts to this, Lord, I am where thou wouldst have me, and doing what thou wouldst have me, and as for the success that belongs not to my work but to thy self, I walk according to that that is thy wil, and as for success I will leave that to thy self.