Prima the first things, in reference to the middle and last things

The seventh step is, A relying on Christ: no sooner he considers and remembers those many melting invitations of our Lord and Saviour: ¹If any man thirst, let him come unto me: Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters: Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden with sin: but (resting himself on the impregnable truth of these blessed promises) he throws himself into the merciful and meritorious arms of his crucified Lord. Come life, come death, come heaven, come hell, come what come will, ²here will he stick for ever: Who (saith Paul) shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? No: I am persuaded (not these, nor more then these) neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor Principalities, nor Powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which ⟨p. 37⟩is in Christ Jesus our Lord, Rom. 8.35, 38, 39. Thus it is with the man labouring in this birth: what (saith he) doth Christ call the heavy laden? why, Lord, I am heavy laden with a weight, a mass of sin, and if he may come that is called, Lord, I come, I come, and now I am come, with thee will I build my tabernacle, with thee will I rest for ever. Nor is this any wonder, experience tells us, the hunted beast flies unto his den, the wounded man hies unto the Surgeon, and so the poor man broken and bruised with the weight of sin, how should he otherwise but cast himself willingly into the sweet compassionate inviting arms and embracements of Christ, whose promises run, I will ease him, I will refresh him? You may see sometimes a little infant, ³upon apprehension and approach of some sudden danger, how hastily he runs into his mothers arms:

The seventh step is, A relying on Christ: no sooner he considers and remembers those many melting invitations of our Lord and Savior: ¹