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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.
First, For the evidences to know whether your Rest be indeed the right Rest that is in Christ.
First, This Rest in Christ, it can never be but upon great discovery of glorious things that the soul was not acquainted with before, many men go on and are quiet in their way and think that their rest is Christs rest, how will that appear that it is Christs Rest? It will appear that they have had poor weak grounds to stand upon, only that which they have in a natural way, they live quietly among men, and the creatures doth not trouble them, and in a prudential way they are loath to trouble themselves in their own thoughts. But now, I appeal to thy soul, what discoveries hast thou had of the glorious things of the covenant of Grace, and the covenant of life, in those ways that God hath had in his eternal counsels to reconcile God and thy soul? What discoveries of Gods ways hast thou had, to draw thy heart to Christ? Thy Rest must come from these, these must be the means to bring thy soul to rest, if thy Rest come from blindness, Ignorance, and deadness of spirit, it is far from the true Rest in Christ.
First, This Rest in Christ, it can never be but upon great discovery of glorious things that the soul was not acquainted with before, many men go on and are quiet in their way and think that their rest is Christs rest, how wil that appeare that it is Christs Rest? It wil appeare that they have had poor weake grounds to stand upon, only that which they have in a natural way, they live quietly among men, and the creatures doth not trouble them, and in a prudential way they are loath to trouble themselves in their owne thoughts. But now, I appeal to thy soul, what discoveries hast thou had of the glorious things of the covenant of Grace, and the covenant of life, in those waies that God hath had in his eternal counsels to reconcile God and thy soul? What discoveries of Gods waies hast thou had, to draw thy heart to Christ? Thy Rest must come from these, these must be the meanes to bring thy soul to rest, if thy Rest come from blindness, Ignorance, and deadness of spirit, it is far from the true Rest in Christ.