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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.
It is God that saith it, as if the prophet should say, I am now preaching unto you about the restless condition that ⟨p. 191⟩you are in, remaining in your natural estate, as unconverted to God, while I am preaching of this, it will be a sad thing to you, it is a sad argument you will say, the prophet tells us, there is no rest, no peace; but as if the prophet should say, it is not I that saith it, it is my God that saith it, God doth pronounce this upon every ungodly man and woman, that there is no peace, no rest unto such; let the world have never so much rest and peace, though there should be no war abroad in the world, yet there is no peace unto wicked men, no rest unto their souls. I shall demonstrate this more clearly afterwards that there is no rest nor peace to any wicked men in the world, though they seem to others to live in never so much ease, rest and peace.
It is God that saith it, as if the prophet should say, I am now preaching unto you about the restless condition that ⟨p. 191⟩you are in, remaining in your natural estate, as unconverted to God, while I am preaching of this, it wil be a sad thing to you, it is a sad argument you wil say, the prophet tels us, there is no rest, no peace; but as if the prophet should say, it is not I that saith it, it is my God that saith it, God doth pronounce this upon every ungodly man and woman, that there is no peace, no rest unto such; let the world have never so much rest and peace, though there should be no war abroad in the world, yet there is no peace unto wicked men, no rest unto their soules. I shal demonstrate this more cleerly afterwards that there is no rest nor peace to any wicked men in the world, though they seem to others to live in never so much ease, rest and peace.
Further, there is no peace to the wicked, saith my God; it is not I saith the prophet, but God that saith it, whereby he would teach us this note, That when any ministers of God preacheth that which is hard to us, we should consider that it is not their words, but Gods that speaks to them, that God that will make all good, that he speaks by them, which is according to his word, according to what he saith in his word, there is no peace, saith my God.