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2. There is a Promise of Grace to all that repent and believe. Our Saviour encourages us, Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you Rest. Those who feel Sin as an intolerable Burden, and their fainting Souls are without Support, let them devolve their Burden upon him, and trust entirely in him, they shall obtain blessed Rest. The timorous Sinners that tremble under the Weight of their Guilt, are encouraged; for in this condition Christ invites them to come to him, and promises Rest. Let them aggravate their Sins to the highest, yet St. Paul challenges the Precedence as the chief of Sinners, and obtained Mercy. When the Heart is broken for Sin, and from it, not to believe the Promise of Mercy, is dishonourable to our Saviour's Love, and the Value of ⟨p. 314⟩his Blood, as if not sufficient to save poor Souls that would fain live in him. We have the strongest Testimony of his Love, in dying for us when we were Enemies. Christ came with this Intention to save Sinners; and when they come to him, will he reject them? He cannot deny himself, he's Truth, and he has most expressly declared, Whoever comes to me, I will in no wise cast out: and this Promise is confirmed by the Will of his Father that sent him. Christ invites thirsty Souls to partake of the Waters of Life; and when he has inspired them with ardent Desires, and they come, will he send them away empty? 'Tis absolutely impossible for him who is incarnate Love and Mercy, to despise and reject the Soul that looks to him, that longs and languishes after him, and will be ever unsatisfied without him.

2. There is a Promise of Grace to all that repent and believe. Our Saviour encourages us, Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you Rest. Those who feel Sin as an intolerable Burden, and their fainting Souls are without Support, let them devolve their Burden upon him, and trust entirely in him, they shall obtain blessed Rest. The timerous Sinners that tremble under the Weight of their Guilt, are encouraged; for in this condition Christ invites them to come to him, and promises Rest. Let them aggravate their Sins to the highest, yet St. Paul challenges the Precedence as the chief of Sinners, and obtained Mercy. When the Heart is broken for Sin, and from it, not to believe the Promise of Mercy, is dishonourable to our Saviour's Love, and the Value of ⟨p. 314⟩