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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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10. Another Rule is this, Preserve all your experiences that you have had of the goodness of Gods ways, when your hearts have been most enlarged, and you have walked most close with God, and God hath come in to your soul: Preserve those experiences, keep them by, that they may help you against an il day, it may there be may be a time a coming, that you may be in spiritual desertion and that may be grievous to you, but if you had kept the experiences you had of God when your heart kept close to God, it would much help you, & sweeten your hearts, to think of the days of old. As David when he was in desertion, he would many times be thinking of the days of old: So if Christians would be very careful to observe and lay up all the experiences that they have of God and his ways, the sweet and good of them, it would mightily facilitate them in holy duties, and be a ⟨p. 767⟩continual Cordial to them, and put spirits into them, to make them go on with ease in any duty God requires of them.
10. Another Rule is this, Preserve all your experiences that you have had of the goodness of Gods waies, when your hearts have been most enlarged, and you have walked most close with God, and God hath come in to your soul: Preserve those experiences, keep them by, that they may help you against an il day, it may there be may be a time a coming, that you may be in spirituall desertion and that may be grievous to you, but if you had kept the experiences you had of God when your heart kept close to God, it would much help you, & sweeten your hearts, to think of the daies of old. As David when he was in desertion, he would many times be thinking of the daies of old: So if Christians would be very careful to observe and lay up all the experiences that they have of God and his waies, the sweet and good of them, it would mightily facilitate them in holy duties, and be a ⟨p. 767⟩continuall Cordial to them, and put spirits into them, to make them go on with ease in any duty God requires of them.