Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

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 1 Cor. 3. and the Last verse. All things are Gods, that you will acknowledge, ⟨p. 164⟩but how come they to be ours, all things are yours, that is the happiness of those that are come to Christ. He doth not say, all things are Gods, and you are Gods, No, but all things are yours, and you are Christs, and Christ is Gods. Whereas other people, in seeking after mercy from God, go this way to work, they go immediately to God, and think that if ever they receive any mercy or good, it must come from God, they must have it from God, but there is something comes between God and you, all things are yours, and you are Christs, and Christ is Gods; so that God himself is the infinite Fountain of all good; Christ is as it were the Cistern, into which all the mercy and goodness of God is to be conveyed, and believers by Faith have every one a Pipe, as it were, put into this Cistern, so they come to have conveyed all good, the fullness of the divine Nature, they are united unto Christ, and so have all Mercy conveyed from God unto them, here is a strong argument to draw the heart to come to Christ, because Christ is the great conveyance of all good from the her unto the Soul, is not the mercy of God sweet unto a Soul, that is Laden with the Burden of Sin? This mercy you must have in me, saith Christ, or else you shall never have a drop of it.