A30566:705
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.
CHAP. XXV.
Six Reasons of the former Doctrine. 1. The soul out of Christ is departed from God. 2. Every man by nature is an enemy to God. 3. Every man by nature is bound over to the justice of God to answer to what he can charge him with. 4. In a man out of Christ there is every thing to disquiet him. 5. Every one out of Christ is condemned. 6. Such every moment may be Plunged into a Gulf of Wrath.
WELL, Because this text hath taken up some time in the opening of it, and hath much in it, I will name no other than this; for this indeed is sufficient to prove, that all out of Christ can have no peace nor rest unto their souls. Would you know why, and how it comes to pass, that None that are out of Christ can have Rest unto their souls? I shall not spend much time in opening what I have to say, but those that are to be delivered for the opening of this point are exceeding dreadful, they speak dreadfully to those that are out of Christ: but now because you have already heard so much, of the willingness of Jesus Christ to be reconciled to you, and his invitation of you to come to him, and I have so much afterwards to deliver to you, about the true rest that a believing soul hath in Jesus Christ, therefore I may take the more liberty, to show unto you the restless condition that every soul is in that is out of Jesus Christ. I will do it very briefly in these particulars,
WELL, Because this text hath taken up some time in the opening of it, and hath much in it, I wil name no other than this; for this indeed is sufficient to prove, that al out of Christ can have no peace nor rest unto their soules. Would you know why, and how it comes to pass, that None that are out of Christ can have Rest unto their soules? I shal not spend much time in opening what I have to say, but those that are to be delivered for the opening of this point are exceeding dreadful, they speake dreadfully to those that are out of Christ: but now because you have already heard so much, of the willingness of Jesus Christ to be reconciled to you, and his invitation of you to come to him, and I have so much afterwards to deliver to you, about the true rest that a beleeving soul hath in Jesus Christ, therefore I may take the more liberty, to shew unto you the restless condition that every soul is in that is out of Jesus Christ. I wil do it very breifly in these particulars,