Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

No, you bid your Servant ask who it is, and they must give a good account what they would have, and from whence they come, before you will open the door; So, when any temptation raps at thy soul, inquire what it would have, and whence it comes, doth it come from God or no, or from the Devil? Many people, they think the word to be a rule for their Faith, but they think the word is not a rule for their fear, you must have as good a warrant for refusing any comfort that is tendered to you, as well as for the taking of any comfort, and if you would observe that rule, that you will never refuse comfort, but you will have a word to warrant you. If the Lord come to you and say, why did you refuse such comforts, and you say, I was in fear and Jealousies, I but if God should say, what word have you for it? What were you able to answer? Oh, This is that that God will require of you, for it is a dishonour to the truth of God, that whenas there is a word to ground thy Faith upon, and nothing but Jealousies to ground thy fears, yet thou wilt make thy Jealousies and thy fears to weigh down the word.

No, you bid your Servant ask who it is, and they must give a good account what they would have, and from whence they come, before you wil open the dore; So, when any temptation raps at thy soul, inquire what it would have, and whence it comes, doth it come from God or no, or from the Devil? Many people, they think the word to be a rule for their Faith, but they think the word is not a rule for their fear, you must have as good a warrant for refusing any comfort that is tendred to you, as wel as for the taking of any comfort, and if you would observe that rule, that you wil never refuse comfort, but you wil have a word to warrant you. If the Lord come to you and say, why did you refuse such comforts, and you say, I was in fear and Jealousies, I but if God should say, what word have you for it? What were you able to answer? Oh, This is that that God wil require of you, for it is a dishonor to the truth of God, that whenas there is a word to ground thy Faith upon, and nothing but Jealousies to ground thy fears, yet thou wilt make thy Jealousies and thy fears to weigh down the word.

Sixthly: Again, according to the degrees of thy enlargement, so let thy Humiliation be, as thou findest thy Heart enlarged with joy, at the same time let thy Grace work downward in way of Humiliation, observe a proportion between thy joy and Humiliation, many people are enlarged upon the joy they have in Christ, but they are not humbled, and therefore they vanish.