Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

Now consider this one particular, viz. who Christ is that calls to come to him, and in the consideration of this there are two or three mighty strong arguments to prevail with the soul to come to Christ.

First, in that Christ is the son of God, and yet man, God man, so united, hence the terror of the Glory of God comes to be taken away, so as poor wretched flesh may be able now to converse with God, being veiled with our own nature, God being veiled with flesh. It is true, if God in his own Glory, as he is in himself in the highest heavens, should call us to come to him, we might be afraid least we should be overwhelmed with his glory, we cannot stand before him; we cannot look so much as upon the glory of the sin, how shall we be able to go to the body of the glory of God? Are we able to go to the body of the Sun? No, it would burn us up, how can we be able to go to the glory of God then? Now because the Lord knows that his glory is so great, he hath been pleased to provide such a way to take off the ⟨p. 159⟩terror of his greatness, though we be frail flesh, yet the Lord hath done that which may encourage us to come to him, for he hath veiled his glory with Human Nature, and therefore we may now through Christ be able to stand before, and converse with the infinite glorious God. This is a great mystery, the greatest, that God hath taken our flesh upon him, and veiled his glory with our flesh, that he might have his terror taken from us, and we may be able to come to him, here was one special end that Christ was made man, that the Lord might deal with us in a more familiar way, than otherwise he could.

First, in that Christ is the son of God, and yet man, God man, so united, hence the terror of the Glory of God comes to be taken away, so as poor wretched flesh may be able now to converse with God, being vailed with our own nature, God being vailed with flesh. It is true, if God in his own Glory, as he is in himself in the highest heavens, should cal us to come to him, we might be afraid least we should be overwhelmed with his glory, we cannot stand before him; we cannot look so much as upon the glory of the sin, how shal we be able to go to the body of the glory of God? Are we able to go to the body of the Sun? No, it would burn us up, how can we be able to go to the glory of God then? Now because the Lord knows that his glory is so great, he hath been pleased to provide such a way to take off the