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Including contributions from celebrated preachers and theologians, The Biblical Illustrator provides historical and cultural insight, commentary, illustrations, and more to make your sermons engaging and practical. This volume covers the Gospel of Matthew.

easy and My burden is light.— Christ’s yoke and burden:—SOME OF THE PARTICULARS IN WHICH CHRIST IS REPUTED TO IMPOSE A HEAVY YOKE AND BURDEN. I know of no obligation chat rests upon me as a Christian which does not equally rest upon me as a man. 1. The burden of duty. Purity, justice, love, industry, are enjoined upon me as a man. This burden Christ makes light and easy. (1) By giving us clear knowledge of the right in His plain precepts. (2) By the irresistible motives to duty which He supplies