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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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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.
First, In regard of God, as God hath a special Eye to a Lovvly Heart, so a Lovvly 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.
Now the behaviour of an humble heart towards God is especially in these Particulars.
Now the behavior of an humble heart towards God is especially in these Particulars.
1. An Humble Heart doth acknowledge the infinite distance that there is between God and it self, and from this infinite distance that he sees between God and himself he comes to be more, and more vile, no man or woman in the world is humble, except they have a knowledge of God, they cannot be vile in their own Eyes in a Christian way, except God hath made himself known to them, but when the Lord doth acquaint the Soul with himself, and the Soul comes to see and acknowledge the infinite distance between God and it, and upon that comes to have high thoughts of God, and low thoughts of it self, this is the first work of an humble Spirit in respect of God. You know that in Job, 42. 4, 5. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine Eye seeth thee, therefore do I abhor my self in dust and ashes, Here was Jobs Humility, Oh, Lord, I have a sight of thee, I see an infinite distance between thee and me, and it is this that makes me have such high thoughts of thee, and low thoughts of my self, and therefore I abhor my self, and repent in dust and ashes: It may be, many of you, when you are put into an affliction, perhaps God takes away your estate that makes you dejected, God lays an affliction upon your body, your Wife, or Husband, and that dejects you, Oh, but the right dejection of the Spirit is this, I see an infinite distance between God and me, and that is it that lowens my spirit more then any thing in the world. I appeal unto you hath God beaten this upon your spirits, the infinite distance between God and you, and upon that