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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.
3. This is that that God sees doth drive his own people to him in prayer, nothing drives the Saints to God with more earnestness in prayer, then the feeling of the weight of Corruption upon them, then they go to God above all, God never hears such strong cries come up to heaven in regard of any affliction as this; and by the way, you may find by this how your hearts are, when the hand of God is upon you in afflictions, then you will cry to God, but I put this to you, hath there not come as strong cries to heaven upon the sense of your Corruptions as upon the sense of any Affliction whatsoever.
3. This is that that God sees doth drive his own people to him in prayer, nothing drives the Saints to God with more earnestness in prayer, then the feeling of the weight of Corruption upon them, then they goe to God above al, God never heares such strong cryes come up to heaven in regard of any affliction as this; and by the way, you may find by this how your hearts are, when the hand of God is upon you in afflictions, then you wil cry to God, but I put this to you, hath there not come as strong cryes to heaven upon the sence of your Corruptions as upon the sence of any Affliction whatsoever.
4. The Lord hath glory in this, in the exercise of the work of repentance, and humility; the keeping the Souls of his people in humility, and the contrition of their Spirits, that is exceeding pleasing to God, the Lord is near to a broken contrite heart, a melting mourning spirit, the Lord doth delight in the evangelical workings of repentance, this pleaseth the Lord; the work of humiliation, mourning and sorrow for sin in an evangelical way, is a grace that is acceptable to God; God shall have none of that in heaven, and he hath it therefore here.
4. The Lord hath glory in this, in the exercise of the work of repentance, and humility; the keeping the Souls of his people in humility, and the contrition of their Spirits, that is exceeding pleasing to God, the Lord is neer to a broken contrite heart, a melting mourning spirit, the Lord doth delight in the evangelical workings of repentance, this pleaseth the Lord; the work of humiliation, mourning and sorrow for sin in an evangelical way, is a grace that is acceptable to God; God shal have none of that in heaven, and he hath it therefore here.