A30566:734
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.
And for that I shall give two or three Reasons.
I. First, Because the Rest of an immortal Soul must needs be in the reference it hath to God; Now all the ⟨p. 209⟩Transactions between God and us, are only in the hand of Christ, it is not committed unto any creature, to transact any thing between God and us for any good, but through Christ; now then, if all our Rest must needs be in our reference unto God, and all the Transactions between God and us must be in the hand of Christ the Mediator, then certainly, there is an insufficiency in all things in the world to give Rest unto our souls.
I. First, Because the Rest of an immortal Soul must needs be in the reference it hath to God; Now al the ⟨p. 209⟩Transactions between God and us, are only in the hand of Christ, it is not committed unto any creature, to transact any thing between God and us for any good, but through Christ; now then, if al our Rest must needs be in our reference unto God, and al the Transactions between God and us must be in the hand of Christ the Mediator, then certainly, there is an insufficiency in al things in the world to give Rest unto our souls.
II. Secondly, There is an insufficiency in all things in the world to give Rest unto the Soul, because the misery that we are in is so deep, and the happiness that our Souls are capable of is so high, that it is impossible that any creature can reach the one or the other, either to deliver from the one, or to raise up unto the other, only Jesus Christ in whom we have Rest can do it, because that there was never any thing that came to that depth of humiliation, nor hath that height of Glory (put both together) Christ hath subjected himself to the lowest degree of humiliation that ever creature could subject it self unto, and Christ is in the highest degree of Glory that it is possible for any creature to be in, above all creatures: his subjection unto sorrow and trouble was such as no creature can subject unto, and his glory is higher than any creature is capable of, therefore he, and only he, is able to deliver from the depth of misery in which the Children of men are, and raise them to the true happiness and Glory that their Natures are capable of.