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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.
CHRIST INVITING SINNERS TO COME TO HIM. › Chapter 5 › Reason 4: REASON IV.
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.
REASON IV.
Fourthly, It is Christ that is to have the Glory of the ⟨p. 26⟩ease of sin, and those souls that are burdened for sin, if ever they have ease; they will give the Lord Jesus all the Glory. Now first Christ having all the Mercy of God the Father, and being sent into the world to bind up all broken hearts, and having experience of the burden of sin. And fourthly knowing that he shall have all the Glory, in delivering and easing of Souls; certainly Christ doth account it worth all his sufferings, that he might have the Glory in easing of troubled Souls, as many Chirurgeons account it to be their Glory, to have the Honour of curing desperate cures; the Lord Jesus will Glory in this to all eternity. When all the poor burdened Souls that ever he did ease shall be brought before him, and shall be acknowledged before God and his Angels. Oh! here are those, many thousand Souls that were under their burdens, and were ready to perish and I have eased them, and here they shall rest from all their labours for ever; Christ calls Sinners upon these gro•ds.
Fourthly, It is Christ that is to have the Glory of the ⟨p. 26⟩ease of sin, and those souls that are burdened for sin, if ever they have ease; they wil give the Lord Jesus al the Glory. Now first Christ having al the Mercy of God the Father, and being sent into the world to bind up al broken hearts, and having experience of the burden of sin. And fourthly knowing that he shal have al the Glory, in delivering and easing of Souls; certainly Christ doth account it worth al his sufferings, that he might have the Glory in easing of troubled Souls, as many Chyrurgions account it to be their Glory, to have the Honor of curing desperate cures; the Lord Jesus wil Glory in this to al eternity. When al the poor burdened Souls that ever he did ease shal be brought before him, and shal be acknowledged before God and his Angels. Oh! here are those, many thousand Souls that were under their burdens, and were ready to perish and I have eased them, and here they shal rest from al their labors for ever; Christ cals Sinners upon these grods.