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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
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CHRIST INVITING SINNERS TO COME TO HIM. › Chapter 28 › Part 8: VIII.
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.
VIII.
Eighthly, When the Soul comes to Christ, there is no return of any guilt, if Christ doth undertake for them that come to him, though Christ doth undertake for what is past, and what is to come, yet as it is with a malefactor though perhaps he hath his pardon and be received into Favour, yet he may think there is some alteration again, but now the guilt that was upon thee shall never return upon thee again. Though a man hath a pardon, if he do not carry himself well, the former Guilt returns again; but when once the Soul is pardoned, the former Guilt never returns again, the Lord will blot out all their sins, and remember them no more. As when you cast a thing out of your Ship into the bottom of the Sea, you never look for it again, so it is with God, all your sins shall be cast into the bottom of the Sea, and shall be so far from you, as the Guilt of them shall never come more to you when once you are come to Christ.
Eightly, When the Soul comes to Christ, there is no returne of any guilt, if Christ doth undertake for them that come to him, though Christ doth undertake for what is past, and what is to come, yet as it is with a malefactor though perhaps he hath his pardon and be received into Favor, yet he may think there is some alteration again, but now the guilt that was upon thee shall never return upon thee again. Though a man hath a pardon, if he do not carry himself wel, the former Guilt returnes again; but when once the Soul is pardoned, the former Guilt never returnes again, the Lord wil blot out all their sinnes, and remember them no more. As when you cast a thing out of your Ship into the bottom of the Sea, you never look for it again, so it is with God, all your sins shall be cast into the bottom of the Sea, and shal be so far from you, as the Guilt of them shall never come more to you when once you are come to Christ.