Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

Now for the first, That out of Jesus Christ, there can be no rest unto the soul: As we read of the Dove that Noah sent forth; when his Ark was floating up and down on the Water, he sent forth a Dove, and you find in the story of Noah there, in Genesis, 8.89. That when the Dove was sent forth, she flew up and down, but she had not whereon to rest the Sole of her Foot, and therefore she comes flying to the Ark again: so it is with a soul that is not in Christ (for the Ark was a type of Christ) it may float up and down in the world here, but certainly, there is nothing for the soul to rest it self ⟨p. 189⟩upon out of Christ. Indeed, we read, that when Noah sent forth a Raven out of the ark, the Raven came no more, but the dove came again, and the difference between the Dove and the Raven doth elegantly express the difference between those souls that God hath an intent to do good unto in Christ, and those that are left by God, and have no other portion appointed for them than the things of this world: men of this world whom the Lord intends no higher good, than the things of this world, they are like the Raven, they flutter up and down in the world, but never come to the ark, never come to Christ; the other that the Lord hath an intent to do good unto, although they may for a while be floating up and down here in this world, yet so will God order things, that their souls shall never have any rest and quiet, till they come to Jesus Christ, nothing in this world shall satisfy them, but the Lord will make them seek to be sensible of any emptiness, that they have not that good that their souls were made for, no rest to be had out of Christ.

Now for the first, That out of Jesus Christ, there can be no rest unto the soul: As we read of the Dove that Noah sent forth; when his Ark was floating up and down on the Water, he sent forth a Dove, and you find in the story of Noah there, in Genesis, 8.89. That when the Dove was sent forth, she flew up and down, but she had not whereon to rest the Sole of her Foot, and therefore she comes flying to the Arke again: so it is with a soul that is not in Christ (for the Arke was a type of Christ) it may floate up and down in the world here, but certainly, there is nothing for the soul to rest it self ⟨p. 189⟩upon out of Christ. Indeed, we read, that when Noah sent forth a Raven out of the arke, the Raven came no more, but the dove came again, and the difference between the Dove and the Raven doth elegantly express the difference between those souls that God hath an intent to do good unto in Christ, and those that are left by God, and have no other portion appointed for them than the things of this world: men of this world whom the Lord intends no higher good, than the things of this world, they are like the Raven, they flutter up and down in the world, but never come to the arke, never come to Christ; the other that the Lord hath an intent to do good unto, although they may for a while be floating up and down here in this world, yet so wil God order things, that their soules shal never have any rest and quiet, til they come to Jesus Christ, nothing in this world shal satisfie them, but the Lord wil make them seek to be sensible of any emptiness, that they have not that good that their soules were made for, no rest to be had out of Christ.