Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

You will say, There was never any so vile as we are. ⟨p. 170⟩Its true, we may, and ought to judg our Selves as vile as the worst; though we have not committed such vile sins outwardly as others have, yet because we know not the Hearts of other men, nor do we know what means others have had, therefore we are to judg ourselves as vile as any: but know, that Christ hath received as bad as thou art, those that pierced Christ, that shed his blood, Christ received 3000. of them in one day, he received three thousand in one day of those that had imbrued their hands in his blood; and the story stands in the Scripture for an everlasting Monument, to encourage poor sinners to come to Christ.

You will say, There was never any so vile as we are. ⟨p. 170⟩Its true, we may, and ought to judg our Selves as vile as the worst; though we have not committed such vile sins outwardly as others have, yet because we know not the Hearts of other men, nor do we know what means others have had, therefore we are to judg ourselves as vile as any: but know, that Christ hath received as bad as thou art, those that pierced Christ, that shed his blood, Christ received 3000. of them in one day, he received three thousand in one day of those that had inbrued their hands in his blood; and the story stands in the Scripture for an everlasting Monument, to incourage poor sinners to come to Christ.

And besides, though thou art a vile sinner, and a wretched creature, yet know, the greater thou hast been in thy sin, the more will the Grace of God in Christ be magnified, and certainly, there is in Christ such a Grace as is able to swallow up great sins as well as little, as the infinite Ocean of the Sea, is able to swallow up great Vessels as well as small: were it not a silly thing, when we were to cast a Vessel into the Sea, to say it is too great a Vessel: God is willing to have his Grace magnified to thee, though it be to the hardening of many thousands. If there is an infinite Ocean in God to swallow up great, as well as small sins, so long as this keeps thee off from coming to Christ, so long thou dishonourest this infinite Grace of God in Christ. Were Gods mercy only such as his common bounty is to other of his creatures, this might keep thee off, but now, it being the infinite Ocean of mercy in his Son, and purchased by Christ, it is an infinite dishonour to the Grace of God in Christ to stand upon terms, and not to come to Christ, what dost thou think that mercy is worth, that cost the Blood of Christ? Thou thinkest thou art a great sinner, and that it must be wonderful mercy that must save thy Soul. Its true, and it's well thou thinkest So, but now consider further sinner, what dost thou think of the mercy that shall be as much worth as the Blood of the Son of God?