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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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14. Lastly, Do not satisfy your selves that you have grace, but labour to have strength of grace, that is easy to a strong man that is hard to a weak, now Christians should not satisfy themselves with Gods grace, God hath begun grace in thee, you will say, he that hath the least dram of grace, it will carry him to Heaven, I but it is a great deal of grace that must make the ways of Religion easy and delightful to thee: Therefore look into the word, and when thou dost exercise Faith, or make use of any Ordinance, Do it for the increase of grace, for strengthening thy self, strengthen those weak things that are in thee, that thou mayest go on steadily in the ways of Religion, and know to that end, that though thou beest never so weak, yet there is strength enough to be had. Look into the word of God, and you shall find there, that there is a most glorious strength that is possibly to be attained unto by Christians, in Ephes. 1. 18, 19. that place that we have often made use of, What is the exceeding greatness of his power to us ward which believe, according to the working of his mighty power. Mark this Text, it is not only meant of the greatness of Gods power in working Faith in us, but the greatness of his power toward us who do now believe, God doth put forth power, greatness of power, and ⟨p. 771⟩exceeding greatness of mighty power, and the same that he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and set him at the right hand of God. Thou mayest come to have by the exercise of Faith, the power of God put forth, his almighty power to give thee Faith, so now by the exercise of Faith, thou mayest have the power of God, the greatness of his Power the mighty power of God, and the exceeding greatness of the mighty power of God, and the same that God put forth when he raised Christ from the dead, & set him at the right hand of the Father. Thou sayest, thou hast a dead heart, but will not the power of God that raised Christ from the dead raise thy heart, exercise Faith, Lord, I go about such a business, it is difficult because of the hardness of my heart, But Lord, will not the power that raised Christ from the Grave, raise my dead heart. And so, Lord I have a heart sunk down to the things of the world, I but Lord hast thou not promised to put forth the same power into the hearts of thy people, that set Jesus Christ at thy right hand?