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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
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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.
Now to prove that there is a remainder of corruption in the godly that is a burden to them, I will give you but one scripture that shall serve instead of the rest, and that is in Rom. 7.24. O! wretched man that I am saith Paul who shall deliver me from this body of death, I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord, here we have indeed a commentary upon this text, who shall deliver me saith Paul O! Wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death, there's the first part, the burden of corruption ⟨p. 74⟩& then he runs to Christ, I thank God through Jesus Christ, So then I my self with my mind serve the law of God, but with my flesh the Law of sin, I have got ease and rest by Christ by running to him, but mark the scripture, O; wretched man that I am, Paul though a godly man and one eminent in grace, yet had remaining in him a body of death, his sin that was in him, he calls a body of death, it was as a deadly thing unto his heart, and it was as a body because it was made up of many members as a body is, there were many sins remaining in him, and all the faculties of his soul and members of his body were defiled with sin, and therefore he calls it a body of death. Now the Apostle is so sensible of this, that he gives a grievous shriek as it were, O! wretched man that I am, he counts it his misery, in that it appears to be a burden, and then he shrieks out under his burden, O! wretched man that I am, As a man or woman that hath a burden laid upon their shoulders and being not able to bear it, they give a grievous shriek at the burden falling upon them, so doth the Apostle here. And observe further that the Apostle Paul had as much of the burden of affliction upon him as ever any one had; no man had more of the burden of affliction then he had as you may read in the Cor. 1.4. and Cor. 2.4.
Now to prove that there is a remainder of corruption in the godly that is a burden to them, I wil give you but one scripture that shal serve instead of the rest, and that is in Rom. 7.24. O! wretched man that I am saith Paul who shal deliver me from this body of death, I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord, here we have indeed a cōmentary upon this text, who shal deliver me saith Paul O! Wretched man that I am who shal deliver me from this body of death, there's the first part, the burden of corruption