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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.
For this, it is true, Christ hath suffered, and so hath swallowed up all Gods revenging wrath, and the curse, I but, doth Gods wrath hinder me from having the fruit of Gods Love. You will say, it comes from Love, therefore ⟨p. 357⟩God chastiseth not for sin, No? Why all Gods revenging wrath may be gone, and yet God may chastise for sin and chastise out of Love too, at the same instant. You know it is said of Zechariah, because he did not believe, the Scripture saith in Luke, 1. For this Cause thou shalt be Dumb, For this Cause, because thou didst not believe: And so, therefore, because of their sin they may be chastised. Cannot a Father chastise his Child and yet do it out of Love? not only it may stand with his Love, but because of Love; he would not meddle with him, but let him go, if he did not love him. Certainly, affliction may come out of Love, though for sin, but for God not at all to chastise them, would be an argument of hatred, therefore for him to chastise is an argument of Love rather than hatred.
For this, it is true, Christ hath suffered, and so hath swallowed up al Gods revenging wrath, and the curse, I but, doth Gods wrath hinder me from having the fruit of Gods Love. You wil say, it comes from Love, therefore ⟨p. 357⟩God chastiseth not for sin, No? Why all Gods revenging wrath may be gone, and yet God may chastise for sin and chastise out of Love too, at the same instant. You know it is said of Zachary, because he did not beleeve, the Scripture saith in Luke, 1. For this Cause thou shalt be Dumb, For this Cause, because thou didst not beleeve: And so, therefore, because of their sin they may be chastised. Cannot a Father chastise his Child and yet do it out of Love? not only it may stand with his Love, but because of Love; he would not meddle with him, but let him go, if he did not love him. Certainly, affliction may come out of Love, though for sin, but for God not at all to chastise them, would be an argument of hatred, therefore for him to chastise is an argument of Love rather than hatred.