A30566:555
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.
and therefore my heart must be taken off from these things, Heretofore, I rested in duties, that I was not so bad as others, but now I see there is another manner of righteousness that I must have in a mediator, these though they be good in themselves, yet they are not the things that can ever save my soul, but if ever I have peace with God and stand before him at the great day, it must be through another means then ever yet I have had, if I had gone on, and had thought to make up my satisfaction with God by what I have done, I had been an undone creature; yea, my heart must be taken off from mine one bottom, not to rest in any thing that is in my self, but I must go out and deny my self, and so look for the principle of life out of my self. This is the second thing that is here noted. Come to me, that is, first behold me, see and believe that I am the great mediator that is come into the world to save your souls: and then secondly, let there be an unsettling of your hearts, a taking your hearts off from whatsoever you were settled upon heretofore, that so you may be removed from thence, and that you may take another course for your life in Christ, and happiness in him.
and therefore my heart must be taken off from these things, Heretofore, I rested in duties, that I was not so bad as others, but now I see there is another manner of righteousness that I must have in a mediator, these though they be good in themselves, yet they are not the things that can ever save my soul, but if ever I have peace with God and stand before him at the great day, it must be through another meanes then ever yet I have had, if I had gon on, and had thought to make up my satisfaction with God by what I have done, I had been an undone creature; yea, my heart must be taken off from mine one bottome, not to rest in any thing that is in my self, but I must go out and deny my self, and so look for the principle of life out of my self. This is the second thing that is here noted. Come to me, that is, first behold me, see and beleeve that I am the great mediator that is come into the world to save your souls: and then secondly, let there be an unsetling of your hearts, a taking your hearts off from whatsoever you were setled upon heretofore, that so you may be removed from thence, and that you may take another course for your life in Christ, and happiness in him.