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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.
The Eighth property of the Burden of Corruption.
Eighthly, Sin is a grievous Burden while we have it, and makes us weary of our Lives, and yet it is such a Burden as we must certainly carry about with us, such a Body as we know we shall never be freed from wholly while we live in this world, it is true, we may be freed from it in a great measure, Christ saith, come to me and you shall have Rest, that is, some Rest for the present, and whole Rest in the Life to come, but we cannot be wholly freed from this Burden whilst we are in this World. And thus much for the properties of this Burden, what a kind of Burden the people of God feel under their Corruptions.
Eightly, Sin is a grievous Burden while we have it, and makes us weary of our Lives, and yet it is such a Burden as we must certainly carry about with us, such a Body as we know we shal never be freed from wholly while we live in this world, it is true, we may be freed from it in a great measure, Christ saith, come to me and you shal have Rest, that is, some Rest for the present, and whole Rest in the Life to come, but we cannot be wholly freed from this Burden whilst we are in this World. And thus much for the properties of this Burden, what a kind of Burden the people of God feel under their Corruptions.