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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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Fifthly: Yea, not only to be a Servant that was beaten▪ but to be made a curse, so in Galath. 3. 13. not only Cursed, but a Curse, in the abstract. Yea, more then this, not only to be a Servant, and to be beaten, and made a curse, but to be made Sin, that that is lower, So in 2 Corinth. 5. 2. He that knew no Sin, was made Sin for us: we will not stand to open these Particulars, only so far is expressed the ⟨p. 498⟩Low condition that Christ was in, how Lowly in Heart Christ was. And all the way as we go, you cannot but see, that there will be a great many Arguments to work Lowliness of Heart in all that profess Christ. After he came into the World, and was put into such a condition, he was fain to fly for his Life, to fly into Egypt to save his Life, and being delivered, then he lives Thirty years in a Low, Poor, Mean condition. He is reputed Low in his parentage, his Father a Poor Carpenter, and his Mother a poor Woman, not able to live in the world, and yet he lives Thirty years together in subjection to this poor Father and Mother, to live in obedience to them, and seeks to live upon his Trade, to live as a Carpenter, Hewing of Timber, for this is the Reason they call him the Carpenters Son, he lived not Idly. And when he came to be manifested the Redeemer of the World, even then the Devil himself had some power over him, he was in some kind under him as you may Read in Matth. 4. He was carried by the Devil, and Set upon the Pinnacle of the Temple. It is a great matter for the Devil to carry any of our Bodies up and down, for Christ to be carried by the Devil, this was very Low. And when he enters upon his office, he wanted bread Forty days together, thus he was brought low & all this was free. And then in the constant way of his Poverty, you know what he said of himself. Matth. 8. 20. The Foxes have Holes, and the Birds of the Air have Nests, but the Son of man hath not wherein to put his Head, Christ had not so much as Birds, and Foxes, No little Cottage. Many of you think it hard that you are fain to live in a poor Smoky hole, a poor Cottage; you have more then Christ had, Christ had not so much as a Gave to hide his Head, though he was possessor of all the world, he was brought in such a Low condition