Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

Ans. No, but this you must observe in your coming, you must not rest upon your coming, but upon Christ, that you come unto, for their may be a deceit in that too. There be some that rest upon works of humiliation, mourning for sin, reforming their lives, and they think that is their rest and peace. Others go further, and think they must believe in Christ, but they will rest upon their believing, so they rest upon their coming, and not upon the object that they come unto; but we must be taken off from resting upon our coming, upon our very believing, and Christ must be all in all to have true rest in. Therefore faith is a Supernatural grace, because by that we are taken off from what we are in our selves, and carried on to somewhat else.

Ans. No, but this you must observe in your comming, you must not rest upon your comming, but upon Christ, that you come unto, for their may be a deceit in that too. There be some that rest upon works of humiliation, mourning for sin, reforming their lives, and they think that is their rest and peace. Others go further, and think they must beleeve in Christ, but they wil rest upon their beleeving, so they rest upon their comming, and not upon the object that they come unto; but we must be taken off from resting upon our comming, upon our very beleeving, and Christ must be all in all to have true rest in. Therefore faith is a Supernatural grace, because by that we are taken off from what we are in our selves, and carryed on to somewhat else.

6. Upon this follows likewise That faith is an humbling grace, it is that that must needs humble the soul where it is, for indeed it is the greatest self denial in the world, for a creature to come to be willing to rely upon free grace, for the soul to be so emptied of it self, as to acknowledge, there is no worthiness no good at all in it self and yet it is content to live eternally upon mere alms, and to give God the glory of all. Is there any thing more hard to any of you, then to live to be beggars all your days, to be beholding to others, so as to live upon mere alms and nothing else all the days of your lives? Now for the ⟨p. 138⟩