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Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest
Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest by Jeremiah Burroughs.Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest by Jeremiah Burroughes.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1659
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Contains the Conclusion of the former Doctrine of Sanctification, with divers directions how to come to Christ for holiness. I. Be sensible of the want of it. II. Be not satisfied with the ordinances further then you meet with Christ. III. Come not so much for comfort and peace as for holiness. IV. Be sensible of new supplies. V. Converse with Christ in the Gospel.
Containes the Conclusion of the former Doctrine of Sanctification, with divers directions how to come to Christ for holiness. I. Be sensible of the want of it. II. Be not satisfied with the ordinances further then you meet with Christ. III. Come not so much for comfort and peace as for holiness. IV. Be sensible of new supplies. V. Converse with Christ in the Gospel.
I Shall now only add a word or two for the concluding of this, and so go on to the next rest that is here promised.
I Shal now only add a word or two for the concluding of this, and so go on to the next rest that is here promised.
Come to Christ for the Rest of Sanctification, for holiness, for the truth is, there is no true holiness, but that which we have by our coming to Christ. The Scripture speaks of true holiness, there may be abstaining from many sins, and performance of many duties, but no saving holiness, but that that is had from God through Christ as Mediator, no true holiness till the Soul comes to be acquainted with Christ, and have it that way, and the holiness that we have by exercising of Faith upon Christ as the Head of the Covenant, that indeed is the mystery of godliness, that is the true godliness, that is godliness in a mystery, which the world is not acquainted with, that is the power of godliness, the powerful holiness that comes by Christ. And indeed that is the Reason why there is so much strength of Grace in the Hearts of the Saints, because they have it from Christ, it is from the spirit of Jesus Christ that is in him, and Christ is the Lyon of the tribe of Judah, his spirit is a spirit of might. Common gifts have not that strength as this holiness that comes from Christ hath, the holiness that is from Christ, that is the only supernatural holiness,