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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 when he came to choose his Disciples, See the lowliness of his spirit there, he did not choose the great ones, Emperors, and Kings, and high ones of the world, but chose a company of illiterate men, Publicans and sinners, Illiterate and despised men Christ chose, and Galileans, yea, Men of Galilee, the worst place in all the Country, Can any good come out of Galilee? And for the other Disciples that should follow. Who were they? When Christ came to his own they rejected him: For a man to be rejected when he shall come out of another Country, and come home: Suppose one of you should have a Friend come out of another Country, and when he comes home, all h•s Friend; should reject him, cast him out, that he should •ot have a nights lodging amongst all; Thus it was with Christ, his own cast him out, and his Kindred laid hand; on him. And those that did regard him, Who were they? Not the Scribes and Pharisees, not the great ones, not the learned ones of the world, But this Multitude, a cursed Generation, a company of poor Wretches, a company of Women that were with Christ, and poor Creatures that did follow him; How loathsome were they in the Eyes of all those that did behold Christ. And when he wrought Miracles, there was not many Miracles that he wrought at Jerusalem, but his Miracles was for the most part wrought in obscure Villages. When he was transfigured in his Glory, many must not see him, he carries only those to see him in his Glory that must suffer for him, those that saw him in his Agony, and he charges them not to tell any man at all, which shows the lowliness of his Spirit: And not only so but he goes yet further, and he humbles himself as the Scripture saith, to Death, a painful Cursed Death, as ⟨p. 500⟩he did upon the Cross, to be first despised, spit upon: They spate upon his face before, and scorned him, and put Thorns upon his Head, and Buffeted him. Yea, his own Disciples forsake him in his sufferings. And then he must die among Thieves, and a Murderer must be chose, before he must be chose, and the•e he must hang, and he is scorned: we seldom will scorn Malefactors upon the Gallows, we pity Malefactors when they go to be hanged: but now to see one upon the Cross, to be hanged there, and Crucified, and yet to be scorned and contemned then, and dying the Death as if he had been the greatest Malefactor upon the face of the Earth.