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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.
I might name abundance of Scriptures, as that, The Lord hath chosen the poor to be Rich in Faith, And the Gospel is preached unto the poor. And not many mighty, and noble, but the poor receive the Gospel. And in Zeph. 3.12. I will leave in the midst of thee, an afflicted and poor people and they shall trust in the Name of the Lord, The Lord hath respect to them, and if thou be godly and poor, thou mayest search into Scripture and find abundance of expressions to give thee Rest. Christ was made poor that he might make us Rich, doth therefore poverty trouble thee? Consider that Christ he was poor, and the ⟨p. 364⟩poverty of Christ it was to make me Rich, and all the evil of my poverty is taken away by Jesus Christ, If poor people would exercise their Faith upon the poverty of Christ, that he was made poor, for so he saith, though he was the Lord of all, yet the foxes had holes and the Birds had nests, but he had not whereon to lay his Head. Christ had not so good a House as any of you, Christ had not a cottage to dwell in, but went abroad from one place to another, therefore exercise but thy Faith upon the poverty of Christ, and that will help thee in thy poverty. And so for dishonour, the Scripture is very full that way too. In Matth. 5.9. Blessed are ye when men shall speak all manner of Evil against you for my names sake. And that in Peter, Blessed are ye when ye suffer reproach, for the Spirit of Glory shall Rest upon you. Now all these promises in time of affliction is made to us in Christ, and therefore come to me, saith Christ, you shall have the virtue and efficacy of all these promises.
I might name abundance of Scriptures, as that, The Lord hath chosen the poor to be Rich in Faith, And the Gospel is preached unto the poor. And not many mighty, and noble, but the poor receive the Gospel. And in Zeph. 3.12. I will leave in the midst of thee, an afflicted and poor people and they shall trust in the Name of the Lord, The Lord hath respect to them, and if thou be godly and poor, thou maist search into Scripture and find abundance of expressions to give thee Rest. Christ was made poor that he might make us Rich, doth therefore poverty trouble thee? Consider that Christ he was poor, and the