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A77983	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.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6072_pt3-4; Wing B6116_PART; Thomason E965_1; ESTC R207640	203,123	309

what is it that is in thee amiss What is it that thou wouldest fain have the word come close unto to help thee against What is the speciall corruption thou wouldest have the word to mortifie in thee If now you set your selves before you come to the word to examin your hearts and when you are there to attend to the word as that which is your life upon which your eternall estate depends and so to sanctifie the name of God in his word and not to dare to cast off any truth knowing that your Soul may lie upon that very truth and to drink in the word of God in every thing that is revealed according to Gods mind this will be a very hard thing you will complain of almost an intolerable Burden But now a gracious heart finds more ease when it Sanctifies God in the power of Godliness in hearing the word than in a formall Duty Alas when such a one comes in a formall way and goes away and gets nothing such a one is troubled at such a Sermon it brings more Burden and grief to such a heart to come to the word and not find profit by the word than any other thing can do almost nothing can be more difficult than this You find no difference you come to the word and you get nothing and you go away with as much comfort as at other times it is as easie to you but now a Gracious heart cannot find ease except he finds Christ in the Duty but you can find ease in holy Duties though you never find Jesus Christ in holy Duties I appeal to you if this thing God would be pleased to settle upon the hearts of Men and Women it might be a very great settlement to their hearts you perform holy Duties What is the ease in holy Duties meerly the performance of the Duty but now if your ease were that which is the ease of a true Gracious heart it comes from the meeting with Jesus Christ in holy Duties And so for the Sabboth how easie is it to keep the Sabboth to do as the most it is easie Why Because you do not now work in your calling as other daies you do and you put on your best Cloaths and come and meet with your Neighbors and so you come to Church and home again and have better fare at your Tables than other daies and somtimes walk up and down the Fields this is easie But now the Saints find the ease of the Sabboth to be this that whereas upon the week day I am busied about other things and so have not that immediate Communion with Jesus Christ as at other times now upon the Sabboth my Soul comes to enjoy more immediate communion with Jesus Christ when I awake I am put upon it more to mind spirituall things to prepare my heart for him And now this whol day is dedicated for my converse with Jesus Christ and it is no more to me but the very Type and forerunner of that eternall Sabboth that I hope to enjoy in the highest Heavens hereafter and so it is easie to me Now methinks whatever trouble I have in the week time in my business in my calling the Sabboth day that refresheth me again and makes me fit for my calling and my heart that was so perplexed with outward crosses and with the troubles of the world that did so dead and dul my Spirit the Sabboth quickens me again and adds new strength again for I have found Christ refreshing my Soul Now is there not a wide difference between the ease of a carnall heart and a Gracious heart in holy Duties The one meerly mistakes the Yoke of Christ And so for the Sacrament It is an easie thing for a man to come in his best Cloaths and take a piece of Bread and a cup of Wine but he knows not what is the power of Godliness in such a holy Duty he thinks that the outward coming to the Sacrament makes amends for all though he hath been a wicked carnall wretch the week before now if he comes to the Sacrament the meer performing the Duty that makes amends though there be no preparation before no spiritualness in the Sacrament no discerning of the Body of Jesus Christ and the Mysteries of Jesus Christ no closing of his heart with Jesus Christ in the Sacrament no engaging his Soul to God no renewing his Covenant with God as he comes to receive the Seal of Gods Covenant with him no such things But now a Gracious heart cannot find ease in taking the Sacrament except it find Christ the ease it hath in the Sacrament it is in preparing the Soul for communion with Jesus Christ it is in the exercise of Faith and repentance the more Faith is exercised and the more Repentance exercised the more the heart is broken in the Sacrament the more ease a man hath and the more he gets his heart engaged to God in the Sacrament and the more he hath renewed his Covenant the more ease he hath I when a man can go to the Sacrament and do this O! this is a good day indeed And indeed this I am speaking upon is as great a point of Religion for the helping of you to know the frame disposition of your hearts how things stand between God and your Souls as any thing I know What it is in holy Duties that brings most ease to your Souls whether it be the bare externall performance of them or the spirituall performance of them is the power of Godliness in them that holy Duties for the matter of them cannot satisfie your heart except you find your hearts sanctified by them and Gods name sanctified ●n them that is the second note of difference between the ease a carnall heart finds in the waies of God and the ease a gracious heart finds CHAP. CXXXVII Containeth a third and fourth Difierence between the ease of a Hypocrite and true Beleever in the waies of God For 1. They are easie even to the Corruptions of a Hypocrite 2. He takes up the waies God partially THirdly Another Difference is this The ease a carnall heart finds it may not only stand with the ease under the Yoke of sin to the Flesh but the truth is even the Duties of Religion are easie to their corruptions to their very corruptions not only may stand with their corrupt waies but are easie to the very corruption it self to the very sinfull distemper of their hearts this is a very evill and vile ease for to perform holy Duties so as to be easie to the very flesh to the fleshly part Indeed the Yoke of Christ is easie unto the Saints but it is not easie unto the flesh I mean to the corrupt part it is not easie to that I but the waies of Religion to carnall hearts is easie to their very corruption to their corrupt part For First There is agreement enough between any Duty they perform and their secret sins they can

the other two The waies of God indeed and Religion and walking in the waies of God we must needs acknowledg to be easie but there is two other things as the Discipline of Jesus Christ and the sufferings that Jesus cals us unto How will that be made out to be easie to us Now I verily beleeve that Jesus Christ had an aim at these two as well as to any other to let them know what Discipline and Goverment he would have his people come under in the times of the Gospel and indeed we cannot be the Disciples of Jesus Christ as we ought except we be willing to put our necks under the yoke of the Discipline of Jesus Christ the Goverment of Christ as it is in his Church we must not think it sufficient meerly that we profess Religion and profess God●●ness that we keep from the sins of the world that we walk close with God in our Families but Christ requires likewise that we should come and sub●it our selves to what Goverment he appoints in his Church and that is a part of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ as wel as his ruling in our hearts indeed that is the principall work of Christ in ruling in our hearts but Christ hath a Kingly power in ruling in his Church the main yoke is inward but there is an outward yoke too for Christ would not have men live as they list in a disorderly way but it is the mind of Jesus Christ that all his Saints though some in one place and some in another should joyn together in exercising such Ordinances as he hath appointed in the externall governing of his Church and yet so that all these are very easie to a spiritual heart though it may seem very difficult to a carnal heart for I should wrong the Text and not be faithfull if I should not give you what I verily beleeve is the scope of the Text I say this yoke is the order of Christ in his Church if it be neglected by people it is a great dishonor unto Jesus Christ and hinders them exceedingly in the waies of Religion and though it be very hard to carnal hearts it is very easie to spiritual hearts I am verily perswaded that one of the greatest things that causeth so much malignity in this Kingdome at this day it is the fearing of the yoke of Christ men are afraid of the goverment of Christ in his Church they are afraid they shall not have that liberty for their lusts and wickedness as formerly but that there shall be yokes to restrain and keep them from those loose waies that formerly they lived in and you may see plainly it is so who are they that joyn with the malignant party that have such spirits but such as have loose spirits they are those that live very loosly others that have meer civility and know little of the power of Godliness they are afraid of this and Oh how is it said by most we will not have this man reign over us they even said they will break his bonds asunder and cast away his cords that is the controversie that it is come to at this very day and that Prophecy in Psalm 2. seems to be fulfilled at this day at verse 2. The Kings of the earth set themselves and the Rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying Let us break their bonds asunder and cast away their cords from us he that sitteth in the Heavens shall laugh the Lord shall have them in derision Then shall he speak to them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion for al this I wil set my King upon my holy hil Certainly Christ is not set up as King as he ought to be whatever profession we make except we be willing to come in put our necks under the yoke of Christ and Oh what a heavy burden and yoke it is For instance That Men and Women should not make a meer verbal profession and say I beleeve and I hope to be saved by Christ but should give an account of their Faith and give an account of some work of God upon their hearts that God hath called them out of the world certainly that is one thing that Christ doth require in his peoples joyning together to set up the Ordinances as they ought to be that they should have some knowledg one of another knowledg of some work of the Holy Ghost upon their hearts You will say that is secret I but though the Holy Ghost worketh in secret yet certainly this may some way or other appear we cannot know it certainly for there may be many Hypocrites no question in the Church of God and it is a very vain cavil for men to say can the Church of God be without Hypocrites that is taken indeed for granted and no body in the world denies it I but there must be that in the judgment of Charity so as by the judgment of Charity we may see so far as we are able to see that the Holy Ghost hath been working upon the Soul of this Man and Woman and hath called them out of the world this is the first thing in coming under the yoke of Christ in his Church Now how hard is this to carnal hearts the very mentioning of it is enough to make a mutiny in many places What! have we lived al this while and must we now come to give account of our faith But now it is an easy thing to a gracious heart what is more easy to a Gracious Heart then to speak of the work of God upon his Heart to give Glory to Jesus Christ in manifesting the work of God in calling him out of the world and bringing him out of the Kingdom of darkness and translating him into the Kingdom of his dear Son the manifestation of this is exceeding delightful to a gracious Heart And whereas many think that some wil lay a greater yoke upon them by coming in and submitting to the gouerment of Christ in his Church they say they wil make them to enter into a solemn Covenant before they wil admit them I confess were it so that this were urged as a thing necessary that they should not come in and joyn in the ordinances of Christ without an explicit solemn Covenant then I cannot but acknowledg it were a yoke that I think Christ never laid upon his Church not an explicit solemn Covenant to urge it as necessary that they cannot come and joyn in the ordinances without it and as for my part I know not any that urge it as necessary though it is used it is true because it is the way of manifesting themselves one way or another and some way they would have for the manifestation of the grace of God and of their willingness to joyn with them in all the Ordinances of Christ so far as is revealed to them and I

THE THIRD And FOURTH BOOK ON MATTHEW 11. VIZ I. Christ the Humble Teacher of those that come to Him II. The Only Easie Way to Heaven Wherein is shewed 1 What Humility or Lowliness is Not. 2 What that Lowliness of Heart is that Christ would have us to Learn of Him 3 Arguments from the Lowliness of Christ to work Lowliness of spirit in us 4 The properties of an humble heart towards God 5 The properties of an Humble and Lowly heart in respect of our selves 6 The properties of Humility in respect of others 1. It is fearful of giving or taking offence 2. It gives due honor to all 3. It is tender to others 4. It 's not needlesly singular from them 7 The Excellencies of Humility 8 Humility brings REST unto the soul 9 Means to get Humility In the only Easie Way to Heaven Is shewed 1 The Way to Heaven that Jesus Christ teacheth is an Easie way Six Evidences thereof 2 The Difference between the EASE a Carnal heart hath and the EASE a gracious soul hath in Religion 3 The Reason why some gracious souls complain of difficulty in Gods waies 4 What it is that makes the Waies of God so Easie 5 Consequences from the Easiness of Gods waies 6 Directions how we may make the Waies of God Easie By JEREMIAH BURROUGHS Preacher of the Gospel at Stepney and Cripple-Gate London London Printed by Peter Cole Printer and Book seller at the Sign of the Printing-press in Cornhil neer the Royal Exchange 1659. M R Burroughs Easie way to Heaven THE CONTENTS OF The Third and Fourth Book On Math 11. CHAP. 119. Lowliness what Negatively in Five Particulars 1 Not in Poverty 2 Nor in Words only 3 Nor Carriage 4 Nor Habit. 5 Nor Baseness of Spirit Page 477 Chap. 120 Lowliness of heart what it is positively and what it is in Christ in six particulars 1 He became Mediator 2 Man 3 Born of a poor Virgin 4 A Servant 5 A Curse Yea Sin 6 He was lowly in his carriage to men 490 Chap. 121 Six Arguments from the Lowliness of Christ to work Lowliness of spirit in our hearts 1 It was one special end of his coming into the world 2 His Humility makes pride in man a desperate Evil 3 The greatest excellency stands with the greatest Humility 4 His Lowliness stands with the greatest Wisdom 5 It is infinitly pleasing to God 6 It may stand with doing of great things 505 Chap. 122. The ground of Humility A knowledg and sense of our own vileness 513 Chap. 123. Of the behavior of humility before God in ten Particulars 1 It acknowledgeth the infinite distance between God and a Sinner 2 It hath a trembling Heart before God 3 A relenting Spirit 4 It makes Gods will its Rule 5 It is willing God should choose its condition 6 It is willing God should be advanced in all his waies 7 It admires the least mercy 8 It is willing to be put in a mean and hard employment 9 It is willing to wait upon God 10 It is willing to do what it can to honor God 521 Chap. 124. Twelve Properties of a Lowly heart in respect of it self 1 It is very suspicious of it self 2 It is willing to know the worst of it self 3 It is willing to look to his beginning 4 It is ashamed of it self 5 It loaths it self 6 It judgeth it self unworthy 7 It denies it self 8. It keeps down it self 9. It hides it self 10 Goes out of it self 11 Bemoans it self 12 Afflicts it self 541 Chap. 125. Three Consequences from the former Point 556 Chap. 126 The first Property of Humility in respect of others is that it thinks better of others then it self Which is laid open in divers Particular answers unto several doubts and Objections 558 Chap. 127 A second Property of Humility in respect of others is To be fearful of giving offence 570 Chap. 128. Other Properties of Humility in respect of others 3 It gives due Honor to all with whom it doth converse 4 It rejoyceth in their good 5 It is willing to receive good from them 6 It is tender towards others 7 It is not needlesly singular from them 576 Chap. 129. The excellency of Humility in thirteen particulars 1 God prizeth it 2 It is a convincing Grace 3 By it we walk worthy of the Gospel 4 It is an Evidence of Election 5 Better than Sacrifices 6 It serveth for the prevailing of Prayer 7 It is a tried heart 8 It is fit for great Services 9 It is the Ornament of all graces 10. It preserves all Graces 11 It makes all Duties and Crosses easie 12 It makes the life comfortable 13 It is most useful to give God the Glory of the new Covenant 586 Chap. 130. Humility brings Rest unto the Soul in Eight Particulars 1. It ventures upon nothing before it sees Gods call 2 The Heart of such is lower than their condition 3 He is never disappointed in the World 4. He would have God have his Glory 5 It freeth from opposition or maketh the Heart yeild to it 6 It makes the Heart rejoyce in the property of others 7 It is under many promises 8 All Crosses are smal to an humble Heart 605 Chap. 131. Exhortation to Humility with five several means to get it 1 Labor to see the excellency of it 2 Convince the Soul of its emptiness 3 Get the knowledg of God 4 Of Christ 5 Of our selves 609 Chap. 132. The knowledg of our selves further prosecuted with Six Means to get it 1. Consider what once we were 2. What we might have been 3. What it cost God to bring us out of that condition 4 What we are 5. What we would be if God should leave us a little to our selves 6 In what case we shall certainly be in one day 624 THE Contents of the Fourth Book on Matth. 11. 30. VIZ. The only Easie Way to Heaven CHAP. 133. The words in the 30. verse Opened and Explained Page 633 Chap. 134. Doct. The way of the Gospel that brings to Heaven is an easie way This confirmed and explained in six particulars 637 Chap. 135. Six Evidences of the former Doctrine in the last Chapter 1. Because the word that injoyns these waies is Sweet 2. A Gracious Soul counts his Duties his priviledges 3 He would rather come under any other Burden than cast off the Yoke of Christ 4 Because Christ whose Yoke it is is Gentle 5 Never any that truly put their neck under this Yoke would willingly take it out again 6 The Experience of all the Saints of God prove the Point 641 Chap. 136. The Second Particular mentioned Is opened in two differences between a Carnal heart and a Gracious Soul in the waies of God 1 The Hypocrite finds ease in the waies of God and Sin both 2 The Hypocrite hath some ease because he mistakes the Yoke of Christ contenting himself with the outward forme of Godliness but the beleevers ease comes from the power of it 649 Chap.