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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.
Secondly: If God doth work upon the soul as a Rational Creature, then he makes use of this to be a means to stop the soul in the course of sin; for before the sinner is made sensible of the evil of his sin, he goes on in a full career as it were, and nothing will stop him in his course. But now when the soul comes to be thus burdened, the ⟨p. 23⟩soul it stopped, and doth not run in that full stream of wickedness as it did before, and that is one good means to help the soul towards Christ, the very stopping of it in the course of sin.
Secondly: If God doth work upon the soul as a Rational Creature, then he makes use of this to be a means to stop the soul in the course of sin; for before the sinner is made sensible of the evil of his sin, he goes on in a full carear as it were, and nothing wil stop him in his course. But now when the soul comes to be thus burdened, the ⟨p. 23⟩soul it stopped, and doth not run in that full stream of wickedness as it did before, and that is one good means to help the soul towards Christ, the very stopping of it in the course of sin.
Thirdly: This is the means in a Rational way to make the soul attend to any call of Christ, for before Christ may call to sinners out of his Word, Come to me, and believe in me, but they do not feel the burden of their sin, and therefore they do not come; if a man be under a heavy burden in a dark night, if he hears the least noise of the feet of any man, then he cries out for help. So the soul under the heavy burden of sin, doth rejoice to hear of any direction out of the Word to come to Christ.
Thirdly: This is the means in a Rational way to make the soul attend to any call of Christ, for before Christ may call to sinners out of his Word, Come to me, and beleeve in me, but they do not feel the burden of their sin, and therefore they do not come; if a man be under a heavy burden in a dark night, if he hears the least noise of the feet of any man, then he cries out for help. So the soul under the heavy burden of sin, doth rejoyce to hear of any direction out of the Word to come to Christ.