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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.
So I say by thy coming to Christ, the core, the malignant humour of affliction is taken out, the sting, the curse is taken away, and thou must exercise faith for the taking away of this, and the way to exercise faith to take away the sting and core of every affliction is this, to look upon Christ under all his afflictions, as being made a curse for thee, for that indeed may trouble, those pains that were upon Christ, that were in his body, and the poverty that he endured, and the dishonour that he suffered, there was a curse in them, and Christ he takes away the curse by bearing the curse. As you know, when a Bee stings, many times it leaves its sting behind it, so the curses of the Law, the Law came to sting Christ, as it were, and left the curse ⟨p. 353⟩behind it upon him, so that now the curse is removed from believers. It is a good observation that one hath about the burnt offering in the Law, we read of the burnt offering, that it was to continue burning all night. So now believers in the night of their affliction, they should exercise their faith upon Christ for burnt offering. Oh consider, though thou hast sad nights, sad and very grievous nights, and thou liest tossing and tumbling, canst not sleep, art in pain and trouble, what shall give thee rest? Now if thou couldst but exercise faith in Christ, who typified out the burnt offering that was to burn all night, I say, this was typified, that Christ is to be looked upon as burning under the wrath of God all the night of thy affliction, to take away Gods wrath in thy afflictions, and there's no such rest as this.
So I say by thy coming to Christ, the core, the malignant humor of affliction is taken out, the sting, the curse is taken away, and thou must exercise faith for the taking away of this, and the way to exercise faith to take away the sting and core of every affliction is this, to look upon Christ under al his afflictions, as being made a curse for thee, for that indeed may trouble, those paines that were upon Christ, that were in his body, and the poverty that he endured, and the dishonor that he suffered, there was a curse in them, and Christ he takes away the curse by bearing the curse. As you know, when a Bee stings, many times it leaves its sting behind it, so the curses of the Law, the Law came to sting Christ, as it were, and left the curse ⟨p. 353⟩behind it upon him, so that now the curse is removed from beleevers. It is a good observation that one hath about the burnt offering in the Law, we read of the burnt offering, that it was to continue burning al night. So now beleevers in the night of their affliction, they should exercise their faith upon Christ for burnt offering. Oh consider, though thou hast sad nights, sad and very greivous nights, and thou liest tossing and tumbling, canst not sleep, art in pain and trouble, what shal give thee rest? Now if thou couldst but exercise faith in Christ, who typified out the burnt offering that was to burn al night, I say, this was typified, that Christ is to be looked upon as burning under the wrath of God al the night of thy affliction, to take away Gods wrath in thy afflictions, and there's no such rest as this.