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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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Now these two being laid as the ground of Humility, the proportion upon which an humble Soul goes. Let us come to the Particulars. It is that virtue whereby the Heart behaves it self, towards God, and it self, and others, according to the right low esteem that it hath of it self, and the sense of its own vileness. Having laid that first as the ground, The right low esteem of it self, and sense of its own vileness. Now let us come to open the behaviour of this humble Heart. You will say, it is a behaviour answerable to this: It is First, in respect of God: Secondly, It self: Thirdly, Others.
NOw these two being laid as the ground of Humility, the proportion upon which an humble Soul goes. Let us come to the Particulars. It is that vertue whereby the Heart behaves it self, towards God, and it self, and others, according to the right low esteem that it hath of it self, and the sence of its own vileness. Having laid that first as the ground, The right low esteem of it self, and sence of its own vileness. Now let us come to open the behavior of this humble Heart. You will say, it is a behavior answerable to this: It is First, in respect of God: Secondly, It self: Thirdly, Others.
First, I should show you what is in an humble Heart in this respect, and then come to show the great excellencies of a Lowly Heart.
First, I should shew you what is in an humble Heart in this respect, and then come to shew the great excellencies of a Lowly Heart.
First, In regard of God, as God hath a special Eye to a Lowly Heart, so a Lowly Heart hath a ⟨p. 522⟩special Eye to God, there is no object that God Eyes more then an humble heart, and there is no object that an humble heart Eyes more then God.