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Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest
Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest by Jeremiah Burroughs.Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest by Jeremiah Burroughes.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1659
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
So it is with the rational creature, when the rational creature is in its proper place, that that is the proper place for an immortal Soul, and when an immortal soul comes to have the Capacity of it to be filled, when it comes to have what an immortal Soul is capable of, then it comes to have Rest, and this is a Rest that Christ doth promise here in the Text, and I will give you Rest: that is thus, If you come to me, you shall first be delivered from all your burdens, from all misery whatsoever. And Secondly, you shall be where you would be, and enjoy what you would have; so that indeed, this promise contains the freedom from all evil, and the enjoyment of all good, there cannot be Rest until there be a freedom from evil, and an enjoyment of all good, that is the general here in this promise, I will give you Rest. There is a great deal of difference between the Rest that Christ here promiseth to give, and that that men seek after in the world. We read of the Rich Glutton in Luke, 12. saith he, Soul take thine ease, Soul be at Rest: for the word there in the Greek, it is of the same that here this word is in my Text, of Rest, Soul take thine ease, or Soul be at Rest, Why? For thou hast goods laid up for many Years. Now mark the difference of the Rest of the Soul of a worldling, and the rest of the Soul of a Christian: A worlding says, ⟨p. 188⟩Soul take thy Rest, for thou hast meat, and drink, and thou hast goods laid up for many Years. A Christians Rest is this, Come (saith Christ) to me and I will give you Rest; the Rest of a Christian, it is in the Son of God, it is in the Mediator of the second Covenant, it is in him that brings the Soul unto the Father, and brings all the treasure and Riches of the Grace of the Father unto the soul, it is in him that a Christian finds rest; and a worldling only, in meat, and drink, and other things, as we shall see more afterwards. Thus in general what the meaning is.
So it is with the rational creature, when the rational creature is in its proper place, that that is the proper place for an immortal Soul, and when an immortal soul comes to have the Capacity of it to be filled, when it comes to have what an immortal Soul is capable of, then it comes to have Rest, and this is a Rest that Christ doth promise here in the Text, and I will give you Rest: that is thus, If you come to me, you shall first be delivered from all your burdens, from all misery whatsoever. And Secondly, you shal be where you would be, and injoy what you would have; so that indeed, this promise containes the freedome from all evil, and the enjoyment of all good, there cannot be Rest until there be a freedome from evil, and an injoyment of all good, that is the general here in this promise, I will give you Rest. There is a great deal of difference between the Rest that Christ here promiseth to give, and that that men seek after in the world. We read of the Rich Glutton in