A30566:1062
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 mean by the Faith of evidence, that I am able to say that Christ is mine and I have an argument to persuade my conscience, that he is mine, that is the Faith of evidence, but yet there is enough in Christ to draw forth the Soul to Re•t upon him from the Faith of adherence, that is thus: Though I cannot draw arguments to rely upon Christ as mine, yet I will cleave to him, and adhere to him, I know there is no help but here, and therefore here I will cleave and cling, here now is the Faith of adherence. Now because there is so much Grace in it therefore Christ may be a great object of thy Faith of adherence, when thou canst not see him to be an object of the Faith of evidence, and that is a way to help the Soul in time of spiritual desertion. When many poor souls are under spiritual afflictions and desertions, they think of no other Faith to rest upon Christ, but barely upon the faith of evidence and when they have evidence to their Souls, that Christ is theirs, and that from some fruits of Grace in them, then they rely upon him, but now learn that there is such a Faith, the Faith of adherence, and Christ may appear to a Soul as a fit object to the Soul for the Faith of adherence, when he cannot be to it an object of the Faith of evidence.
I mean by the Faith of evidence, that I am able to say that Christ is mine and I have an argument to perswade my conscience, that he is mine, that is the Faith of evidence, but yet there is enough in Christ to draw forth the Soul to Re•t upon him from the Faith of adherence, that is thus: Though I cannot draw arguments to rely upon Christ as mine, yet I wil cleave to him, and adhere to him, I know there is no help but here, and therefore here I will cleave and cling, here now is the Faith of adherence. Now because there is so much Grace in it therefore Christ may be a great object of thy Faith of adherence, when thou canst not see him to be an object of the Faith of evidence, and that is a way to help the Soul in time of spiritual desertion. When many poor souls are under spiritual afflictions and desertions, they think of no other Faith to rest upon Christ, but barely upon the faith of evidence and when they have evidence to their Souls, that Christ is theirs, and that from some fruits of Grace in them, then they rely upon him, but now learn that there is such a Faith, the Faith of adherence, and Christ may appear to a Soul as a fit object to the Soul for the Faith of adherence, when he cannot be to it an object of the Faith of evidence.