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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.
Now we are but beginning the great point of all, the Rest of the Soul in Christ what it is, and in this I shall take the Method that I followed in the opening of the Burdens of Laden Sinners, that were heavy Laden. I spake of five loads that were upon sinners that Christ calls to him, that they might come to him for Rest; now answerable to those five shall we speak of the Rest that is to be had in Christ.
NOw we are but beginning the great point of all, the Rest of the Soul in Christ what it is, and in this I shal take the Method that I followed in the opening of the Burdens of Laden Sinners, that were heavy Laden. I spake of five loades that were upon sinners that Christ cals to him, that they might come to him for Rest; now answerable to those five shal we speak of the Rest that is to be had in Christ.
The first Load was the sense of the guilt of sin, that was the first Load that was upon sinners that Christ calls to come unto him that they might have Rest.
The first Load was the sence of the guilt of sin, that was the first Load that was upon sinners that Christ cals to come unto him that they might have Rest.
Now concerning the Rest that the soul hath by Christ in the deliverance of it from the woeful trouble of conscience in respect of the guilt of sin, I shall not show here ⟨p. 219⟩what those troubles are, for that was done in the former point, about those that were weary and heavy Laden. Now if there be any that find their souls Laden under the burden of the guilt of their sins, and that apprehend nothing but the wrath of God that is following and pursuing of them, that if you should speak to them and say, Christian, what see you? Oh, I see an angry God above, and I see within me a guilty conscience, and round about me I see nothing but the wrath of God ready to seize upon me, and underneath I see nothing but the bottomless Gulf ready to receive me; now to such Christ saith, Come unto me, and I will give you ease and Rest from all these fears, from all these troubles, and I will give you ease from all those throws of your conscience, from all those grievous achings of your Soul, Come to me.