Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

Thirdly, Come unto me, that is, let there be a working and a stirring of your hearts after me; Christ calls for the heart of sinners, after he comes to be revealed to them, they should be in a working, stirring, disposition making after the Lord Jesus Christ, for union with him to the utmost that possibly ⟨p. 120⟩they can, the thoughts should be working, and the conscience working, and the will opening it self to receive in the grace of God, and the affection should he stirring, and the whole soul should be in a working disposition after him. Incline your ear and come, as if Christ should say though you are under great burdens, yet do not you sink under them in a discouraging way, and lie down in a dull and a heavy way, No but let your hearts be stirring, working and acting after me continually, have a care of this, to keep your hearts in a stirring and working way after Christ, and the grace that is offered to you in Christ, this is that wch young beginners should observe in a special manner, if God be beginning to work upon your hearts, you should have a great care to keep your hearts in a stir-working, acting frame and disposition after Christ; and above all things in the world, take heed of a dull, heavy dead spirit at this time when God calls you to come to Christ as the Apostle saith of himself, in Phil. 3.14. I press hard after the mark, so it should be with every poor soul that God is drawing after Christ, it should be always in a coming disposition and they should press hard toward the mark of the high prize of the calling that is set before them, Christ is set before thee, God sets his son before thee with the treasure of grace, and thou shouldest press and follow hard after God (as it is the expression of David in one of the Psalms 63, 8.) a hard following, stirring and working of the soul after the Lord as David said to his son Solomon in 1. Chron. 22.16. Up and be doing and the Lord will be with thee, so I say to all unto whom the grace of God is offered, they must not be dull and sullen, but up and be doing As the Apostle speaks, in 1. Phil. 20. According to the earnest expectation, the word that is translated, earnest expectation in the original, signifies to stretch out the neck, to look after some good that I would fain have come, that is the propriety of the word in the original text: