Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

For the opening of that in particular, it is this, When Christ calls you to come to him, you are to know, this notes a motion from Christ, to come to him.

First: It implies a beholding, a looking unto Jesus Christ, as being the All-sufficient Saviour, to save our souls from all the evils that are upon us, and to supply unto us all good we stand in need of: As if Christ should say, when he saith, Come to me; That is, O! poor, troubled sinners; that are under these burdens, Do you behold me to be the great Mediator that is come into the world, to stand between all the wrath of my Father, and your souls, and to bring life and salvation to you, that ⟨p. 118⟩is employed, when I would go, I must know whither I must go, to whom I must go, so saith Christ, I am the great redeemer sent into the world by my father to that very end, that I may ease poor souls of their burdens, and such souls as you are, look unto Christ therefore, as the great reconciler of God and man, the great mediator between God and man, having the fullness of all mercy and goodness in him, the great means of conveyance of all the grace and riches of God the father to sinful souls, that is the first work of believing in Christ, for to look unto him to be such a one as God the Father hath tendered unto us; that is employed, but yet the soul comes not.

First: It implies a beholding, a looking unto Jesus Christ, as being the All-sufficient Savior, to save our souls from al the evils that are upon us, and to supply unto us al good we stand in need of: As if Christ should say, when he saith, Come to me; That is, O! poor, troubled sinners; that are under these burdens, Do you behold me to be the great Mediator that is come into the world, to stand between all the wrath of my Father, and your souls, and to bring life and salvation to you, that ⟨p. 118⟩is imployed, when I would go, I must know whither I must go, to whom I must go, so saith Christ, I am the grea• redeemer sent into the world by my father to that very end, that I may ease poor soules of their burdens, and such soules as you are, look unto Christ therefore, as the great reconciler of God and man, the great mediator between God and man, having the fulness of al mercy and goodness in him, the great meanes of conveyance of al the grace and riches of God the father to sinful souls, that is the first work of beleeving in Christ, for to look unto him to be such a one as God the Father hath tendred unto us; that is imployed, but yet the soul comes not.