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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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And then his Low condition was not only in being born of her, but in being born in one of the meanest Villages, and places, not in the Metropolis Jerusalem, but in BETHLEHEM. And then it was in an Inn, you know he had no stately House, or Country House, or brave place for to be in, but it was in an Inn, and it was in her Journey. Great Women, when they are with Child, will not be travelling in Journeys, but will take state upon them, and will not go forth a long ⟨p. 497⟩while, but she was in her Journey, I, and when she was in an Inn, she could have never a Room, Surely she must be in a Low condition. If a beggar Woman should be ready to cry out, if there were a poor Room that had but a Chimney in it▪ they would grant it to her, but she was in a stable to be brought to Bed in a stable, your Vagrants and Rogues that go up and down cannot be worse then this, and she had no provision it seems, but was fain to lay her Child in the Manger; this infinite God, and Lord of Heaven and Earth, behold him lie in a Stable and a Manger. And besides he was willing to be in this condition, he chose this condition, surely he had a Lowly Heart.
And then his Low condition was not only in being born of her, but in being born in one of the meanest Villages, and places, not in the Metropolis Jerusalem, but in BETHELEM. And then it was in an Inn, you know he had no stately House, or Country House, or brave place for to be in, but it was in an Inn, and it was in her Journy. Great Women, when they are with Child, will not be travelling in Journies, but will take state •pon them, and will not go forth a long ⟨p. 497⟩while, but she was in her Journey, I, and when she was in an Inn, she could have never a Room, Surely she must be in a Low condition. If a begger Woman should be ready to cry out, if there were a poor Room that had but a Chimney in it▪ they would grant it to her, but she was in a stable to be brought to Bed in a stable, your Vagrants and Rogues that go up and down cannot be worse then this, and she had no provision it seems, but was fain to lay her Child in the Manger; this infinite God, and Lord of Heaven and Earth, behold him lie in a Stable and a Manger. And besides he was willing to be in this condition, he chose this condition, surely he had a Lowly Heart.