Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

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 Psalm 90. Thou art our habitation; the soul can have no rest but in God, for God is the proper place of an immortal soul, the true good of an immortal soul it is the enjoyment of an infinite good: now if the soul be separated from that which is the true good, and proper place of it, it is impossible it should have any rest. In the 12. Psalm, the latter end, it is said of the wicked, The wicked walk round about, the words are termed in the old Latin, in a circuit, up and down, but now a godly man, walks in a strait line, he goes to the centre, in a strait line to God as the centre, and there it finds rest; but when it is in its natural condition it walks in a circle, up and down, seeking for rest and finding none, as it is said of the unclean spirit in the Gospel, that walks up and down seeking rest, but finds none; so it is with men in the world, they would fain have rest, and seek somewhat that is good, but finds none, for they are departed from God that is the only rest of an immortal soul.

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