Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

First, Labour to get a sense of your want of holiness and of your need of Christ for it.

First, Labor to get a sence of your want of holiness and of your need of Christ for it.

Secondly, in the exercising of your selves in the ordinances, be not satisfied with the ordinances, any further then you meet with Christ, be not satisfied with a prayer, or with hearing, but think with your selves, what have I of Christ here, that I told you in the opening of the point, how Christ was the sanctification of the heart, because the blessing of all the ordinances is by having Christ there. There are two or three things more that I would commend unto you.

Secondly, in the exercising of your selves in the ordinances, be not satisfied with the ordinances, any further then you meet with Christ, be not satisfied with a prayer, or with hearing, but think with your selves, what have I of Christ here, that I told you in the opening of the point, how Christ was the sanctification of the heart, because the blessing of al the ordinances is by having Christ there. There are two or three things more that I would commend unto you.

The First, Is this, in seeking Christ do not come so much for enlargement, for comfort, for peace, as for sanctification, you seek your peace for holiness, rather then seek holiness for peace, this is a special rule of direction to thrive in seeking for sanctification by Christ. Many Christians, they seek to have Christ, but why? that they might have peace, that they might have comfort, and they make their holiness but subservient to their peace and comfort, They think thus, except I be holy, I cannot have peace, therefore I will labour for holiness that I might have peace. But a true gracious heart will rather say thus, the more holiness I have, the more peace I have, and therefore, I will labour for peace, that I might have holiness, One labours for holiness, that he might have peace, and the other labours for peace, that he might have holiness, Now those Christians that labour rather for peace, that they might have holiness, will more thrive then the other, that labours for holiness, that they might have peace. It is true indeed, it is one good motion to labour for holiness, because it will bring peace, I but it is a stronger motive, to labour for peace that we might have holiness therefore when we seek to Christ, we should seek rather for holiness and sanctification from Christ, then that we might have peace.