Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

Only first I would convince you that out of Christ there is no Rest for the Soul, and if you have had Rest all this while out of Christ, it hath been a cursed, a vile, a wretched Rest, it hath been no other but such a Rest as this, of a man that is condemned to die, Nay, Let me tell you all out of Christ are not condemned to die a temporal, but an eternal Death.

Only first I would convince you that out of Chirst there is no Rest for the Soul, and if you have had Rest all this while out of Christ, it hath been a cursed, a vile, a wretched Rest, it hath been no other but such a Rest as this, of a man that is condemned to die, Nay, Let me tel you all out of Christ are not condemned to die a temporal, but an eternal Death.

But you will say, they have Rest enough, it doth not trouble them. I answer, What Rest? just as if a condemned man shall go to bed, and fall asleep, and dream that he is at home in his House, with his Wife and Children about him, at home with his friends, at his work, at his meat, and O poor man, how he rejoiceth that he is at home, and hath got his Wife and Children, and all is safe and well, this man pleaseth himself in his dream all this while, and at length (poor man) he awakes, and he sees he is in the prison, he sees the shackles about his heels, and the watch at the door, and for ought he knows, he may die the next day. Certainly, this sets forth as lively the condition of natural Men in the world as can be, they are all condemned, but they are in a dream, and they think they are out of all danger, all will be safe, that there shall no misery befall them; O but, when the Lord shall come to awake them out of this dream, they will see themselves in prison, under the sentence of condemnation, and then ⟨p. 203⟩they will wonder that they have been so quiet all this while.

But you wil say, they have Rest enough, it doth not trouble them. I answer, What Rest? just as if a condemned man shal go to bed, and fal asleep, and dream that he is at home in his House, with his Wife and Children about him, at home with his friends, at his work, at his meat, and O poor man, how he rejoyceth that he is at home, and hath got his Wife and Children, and all is safe and wel, this man pleaseth himself in his dream al this while, and at length (poor man) he awakes, and he sees he is in the prison, he sees the shackles about his heels, and the watch at the door, and for ought he knows, he may die the next day. Certainly, this sets forth as lively the condition of natural Men in the world as can be, they are al condemned, but they are in a dream, and they think they are out of al danger, al wil be safe, that there shal no misery befal them; O but, when the Lord shal come to awake them out of this dream, they wil see themselves in prison, under the sentence of condemnation, and then