Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

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,

First, Certainly, a soul out of Christ, can have no rest, because it is departed from God, know this, and ⟨p. 197⟩Oh! that the Lord would make you to know it, that every man and woman naturally is departed from God, is gone from God, from the womb we have departed from him, & there is a great distance between God & every one of our souls naturally, all the union we come to have with God, it is in his son, it is in Christ, therefore, till we come to be in Christ, there is a great chasm, a gulf, a depth, a vast distance between God and all our souls, and this is one of the first things that the Lord is pleased to show, and to convince a soul that he is about to save, of the great distance that there is between God and the soul naturally, now it is impossible for a soul to have rest that is departed from God, for God is the proper Centre of an immortal soul, as Moses saith in