Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

ARG. V.

Fifthly, Consider the infinite good that your Souls shall have by Christ in your coming to him, this draweth the Heart indeed, not only to see who it is that calls you, for commonly when we hear one call, we will ask, who calls, and if it be one that we expect good from, we come to him. (This we showed already.) But this argument is from the infinite good that your Souls shall have when you come to him, the very first moment you come to him, you will be blessed creatures, there will be an infinite change of your condition, for consider.

Fifthly, Consider the infinite good that your Souls shall have by Christ in your coming to him, this draweth the Heart indeed, not only to see who it is that calls you, for commonly when we hear one cal, we wil ask, who cals, and if it be one that we expect good from, we come to him. (This we shewed already.) But this argument is from the infinite good that your Souls shall have when you come to him, the very first moment you come to him, you will be blessed creatures, there will be an infinite change of your condition, for consider.

First, If there be any good to be had in all the mercy that there is in God himself, if there be any good to be had in God the Father, in the divine essence, in the infinite, eternal, first-being of all things, it is to be had by coming unto Christ, for Christ saith, in John, 14.6. No man comes unto the Father, but by me. You cannot come to God but by Christ, as was intimated before, in regard of the distance between God and us through sin, you cannot come to God till you understand Christ to be the great means of conveyance of all good from God to his creature. Christ is the great means of conveyance of all good unto the creature. All are yours, you are Christs, and Christ is Gods, saith the Apostle, in