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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63684	Christ's yoke an easy yoke, and yet the gate to heaven a strait gate in two excellent sermons, well worthy the serious perusal of the strictest professors / by a learned and reverend divine.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.; Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698.	1675 (1675)	Wing T295; ESTC R38275	26,780	106

CHRIST'S YOKE AN EASY YOKE And yet the Gate to Heaven a Strait Gate In two excellent SERMONS Well worthy the serious perusal of the strictest Professors By a Learned and Reverend Divine HEB. 11.4 Who being dead yet speaketh LONDON Printed for F. Smith at the Eliphant and Castle near the Royal Exehange in Cornhil 1675. D. IER TAYLOR OBIIT AVG 13. 1667. F. H. Van Houe fec Wee Speak not great things But Liue them Variety in Opinion unity In affection are not Inconsistent Printed for f. smith at y e Elephant ● Castle in Cornhill TO THE READER READER THese Sermons need no Epistle of Commendation before them the Works of this Reverend Author already extant praise him in the Gates By means of a Person of Honour yet living they are now come into the Press for Publick use and benefit For the subject matter of these excellent Sermons it is of all other the most necessary to make the Way of Christ pleasant to us and to assure us of a blessed and glorious Reward at the end Both which are handled by a Workman that needeth not to be ashamed What can more endear a Christian to the obedience of Christ than to find his very Yoke made easie none of his Commands grievous but his Ways ways of pleasantness and all his Paths peace besides the great and everlasting Reward to all them that walk in them And to quicken our diligence that we be not slothful but followers of them who through faith and obedience inherit the promises the Author hath added another serious and weighty Discourse to shew us That strait is the Gate and narrow is the Way that leadeth unto life Though Christs Precepts are plain and easie to a sincere heart that truly loves him yet his Promises are not to be obtained but by a universal endeavour in a uniform obedience to all his Commands In a word Christs Yoke is easie this should invite us to take his Yoke upon us The Way is narrow that leadeth unto life this should provoke us with care and circumspection to walk in it The Reward is certain and infinite this should encourage us with greatest diligence that we may at last obtain the Promise This we dout nobt was the design of the Author in preaching these Sermons and we do assure thee no less in printing of them Which that they may conduce to so happy and blessed an end is the hearty desire and shall be the sincere prayer of thy Friend to serve thee CHRIST'S YOKE An Easie YOKE Matth. 11.30 For my Yoke is easie and my Burden is light THE Holy JESUS came to break from off our necks two great Yokes the one of sin by which we were fettered and imprisoned in the condition of Slaves and miserable persons the other of Mose's Law by which we are kept in pupillage and minority and a state of imperfection and asserted unto us the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God The first was a despotick Empire the Government of a Tyrant the second was of a School-Master severe but it was in order to a further good yet nothing pleasant in the suffering and load And now Christ having taken off these two hath put on a third he quits us of our burden but not of our duty and hath chang'd the former Tyranny and the less perfect Discipline into the sweetness of paternal Regiment and the excellency of such an Institution whose every Precept carries part of its reward in hand and assurance of after Glories Moses Law was like sharp and unpleasant Physick certainly painful but uncertainly healthful For it was not then communicated to them by Promise and universal Revelation that the end of their Obedience should be Life Eternal But they ere full of hopes it might be so as we are of health when we have a learned and wise Physician But as yet the reward was in a cloud and the hopes in fetters and confinement But the Law of Christ is like Christ's healing of Diseases he does it easily and he does it infallibly The event is certainly cons●quent and the manner of cure is by a touch of his Hand or a word of his Mouth or an approximation to the hem of his Garment without pains and vexatious Instruments My meaning is that Christianity is by the assistance of Christ's Spirit which he promised us and gave us in the Gospel made very easy to us and yet a reward so great is promised as were enough to make a lame Man to walk and a broken Arm endure the burden a Reward great enough to make us willing to do violence to all our Inclinations Passions and Desires A hundred weight to a Giant is a light burden because his strength is disproportionably great and makes it as easie to him as an ounce is to a Child And yet if we had not the strength of Giants if the hundred weight were of Gold or Jewels a weaker person would think it no trouble to bear that burden if it were the reward of his portage and the hire of his labours The Spirit is given us to enable us and Heaven is promised to encourage us the first makes us able and the second makes us willing and when we have power and affections we cannot complain of pressure And this is the meaning of our Blessed Saviour's invitation in my Text Mat. 11.30 Which St. John also observed 1 John 5.4 5. For this is the love of God that we keep his Commendments and his Commandments are not grievous For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the World and this is the Victory that overcometh even our Faith that is our belief of God's Promises the promise of the Spirit for present aid and of Heaven for the future reward is strength enough to overcome all the World But besides that God hath made his Yoke easie by exterior supports more than ever was in any other Religion Christianity is of it self according to humane estimate a Religion more easie and desirable by our natural and reasonable appetites than Sin in the midst of all its pleasures and imaginary felicities Vertue hath more pleasure in it than Sin and hath all satisfaction to every desire of Man in order to humane and prudent ends which I shall represent in the consideration of these particulars I. To live according to the Laws of Jesus is in some things most natural and proportionable to the desires and first intentions of nature II. There is in it less trouble than in Sin III. It conduces infinitely to the content of our lives and natural and political satisfaction IV. It is a means to preserve our temporal Lives long and healthy V. It is most reasonable and he only is prudent that does so and he a fool that does not and all this beside the consideration of a glorious and happy Eternity I. Concerning the first I consider that we do very ill when instead of making our natural infirmity an instrument of humility and of recourse to