Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

3. This helps us about interest in coming to Christ, you will say, come to Christ, but how shall I know that I have any right to come to Christ? This very point answers it, that nothing is required but coming, that which hath given any soul from the beginning of the world any interest to come to Christ, is only coming to Christ; thy coming to Christ doth give thee right to Jesus Christ. If thy grace, the grace of God doth make thee come, that very act of thine in coming gives thee interest and right in him, though thou hadst none before. There needs no other right and challenge to Christ but Gods offering of Christ in the Gospel to thee, and thy coming to him. But now (for it is pity to let this pass) it may be, some may think, will not this tend to looseness to say, its nothing else but to Come to Christ? I know it is extremely abused many ways, many will abuse it thus, when we are preaching the Gospel, that if at any time we preach the miserable condition of men to humble them, they will say, it is a contradiction, but I beseech you take heed of these vain Spirited men, who seek not Jesus Christ in the way of the Gospel. And though it may be through their weakness or the distemper of their hearts, they will not, or do not see the way of the Gospel, but they will come to young people and weak Christians and say, there's contradiction in this, for if this be true, how can the other be true? But these things that seem ⟨p. 134⟩contradictory, they are very agreeable one with another, if you would seem to give judgment upon what we apprehend we shall make the Scripture to contradict it self. But now those that are versed in Scripture and understand the mind of God in the Scripture can tell how to join these together, though others think they contradict one another. As that of Paul to the Romans, That we are justified by faith without the works of the Law. And that in James, he saith, we are Justified by works. A stranger would think, these contradict one another, but they that are acquainted with the way of the Scripture, they can understand what this means:

3. This helps us about interest in comming to Christ, you wil say, come to Christ, but how shal I know that I have any right to come to Christ? This very point answers it, that nothing is required but comming, that which hath given any soul from the begining of the world any interest to come to Christ, is only comming to Christ; thy comming to Christ doth give thee right to Jesus Christ. If thy grace, the grace of God doth make thee come, that very act of thine in coming gives thee interest and right in him, though thou hadst none before. There needs no other right and challenge to Christ but Gods offering of Christ in the Gospel to thee, and thy comming to him. But now (for it is pitty to let this pass) it may be, some may think, wil not this tend to looseness to say, its nothing else but to Come to Christ? I know it is extreamly abused many wayes, many wil abuse it thus, when we are preaching the Gospel, that if at any time we preach the miserable condition of men to humble them, they wil say, it is a contradiction, but I beseech you take heed of these vain Spirited men, who seek not Jesus Christ in the way of the Gospel. And though it may be through their weakness or the distemper of their hearts, they wil not, or do not see the way of the Gospel, but they wil come to young people and weake Christians and say, there's contradiction in this, for if this be true, how can the other be true? But these things that seem