Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

Perhaps in the time of affliction, sickness, loss of estate, and spoil of goods, there comes one friend, and another, and saith, you must be content, and it is the hand of God, and others are afflicted as well as you, and it is the portion of Gods children, these are some things to quiet the heart. I but these are but poor, cold consolations, to tell them they must be content, and it must be so, and they must endure it, these can never give rest to the soul, except you can put your friend upon exercising of faith in Jesus Christ, here is the way to comfort your friends when you go to visit them in sickness, loss of estate, or spoiling of goods, to put them upon this, to exercise faith upon Christ, that hath born affliction, and by his death hath taken away the curse of all afflictions. It is true, there is a night of affliction now upon you, I but there is Christ that is the burnt offering that burns all night to take away the wrath of God in thy afflictions. There is no such way to worm your affliction, to take away the sting of affliction, as to exercise ⟨p. 354⟩faith upon Christ, in whom the curse of affliction is taken away, and when that is gone, now there is rest to the soul. A sick man that lies tossing and tumbling and cannot Rest, and is in such distemper in his flesh, and hath such a Malignant humour in his body, when the Chirurgeon comes and applies any salve to take away that malignant humour, he says, when the Chirurgeon comes again, Oh Sir, now I can Rest: And so saith a Christian, when he hath been vexed with such and such afflictions, and he hath gone and exercised faith in Jesus Christ, for he sees he was under the curse of the Law, and Christ hath taken away the curse of all afflictions, when he hath thus acted faith upon Christ, now he can be at rest, and he can say, now I see the sting taken away. As I said in the rest of sanctification, Christ was appointed as the Brazen serpent was, the great ordinance of God for the healing of them that were stung by the fiery serpents, that if they did but look upon it, they were healed, those that were stung with the fiery serpents, the very looking upon the Brazen Serpent were healed, it being the ordinance of God appointed for that end. So I may apply it here, those that are stung with affliction, Christ is set up as the ordinance, as the Brazen serpent to take away the venom of the sting of thy affliction.

Perhaps in the time of affliction, sickness, losse of estate, and spoil of goods, there comes one friend, and another, and saith, you must be content, and it is the hand of God, and others are afflicted as wel as you, and it is the portion of Gods children, these are some things to quiet the heart. I but these are but poor, cold consolations, to tel them they must be content, and it must be so, and they must endure it, these can never give rest to the soul, except you can put your friend upon exercising of faith in Jesus Christ, here is the way to comfort your friends when you go to visit them in sickness, loss of estate, or spoiling of goods, to put them upon this, to exercise faith upon Christ, that hath born affliction, and by his death hath taken away the curse of al afflictions. It is true, there is a night of affliction now upon you, I but there is Christ that is the burnt offering that burnes al night to take away the wrath of God in thy afflictions. There is no such way to worm your affliction, to take away the sting of affliction, as to exercise