Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

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Ninthly, There is not only deliverance from guiltiness, our justification is not only privative, but it is a clothing of the Soul with the Righteousness of Christ, we have a ⟨p. 226⟩perfect Righteousness, that is the great Mediator of the new covenant, here is a righteousness that I am not only pardoned, but I have a perfect Righteousness to stand before the great God withal.

X.

Yea, Tenthly, and Lastly, The Rest we have in Christ is this, that we are sure upon our coming to him, that the great work of the day of judgment shall be the solemnity of our absolution, the solemnity of thy pardon. One of the great works that God intends to do at the great day of judgment, it is certainly this, to make thy pardon to be solemnized by men and Angels, thou hast now thy pardon, but the great work of God at that day shall be the solemnity of the absolution and pardon of the Saints, then shall their sins be put away anew, as the Scripture speaks, and in the time of refreshment then shall your sins be done away, they are done away before, but then they shall be done away before men and Angels, thou shalt not fear at the day of Judgment, that God shall come and upbraid thee with thy sins, all the while thou wentest under the guilt of sin, what was more terrible to thy Soul than the thoughts of the day of Judgment, Oh how can I stand before the Holy God at the great day, and have all these sins charged upon me? No, come to me saith Christ, and you shall never need to fear that great day of judgment any more, for the great work of that day shall be, to make your pardon to be solemnized, so that you need not to fear any longer the day of Judgment, but to long for that day, and if the great day of judgment be not terrible, yet the Particular day of Judgment may be terrible, the Lord hath a Particular day of Judgment for every Soul, in which God doth cast every man one way or other, but then there shall be a great day of Judgment wherein all the world shall solemnly be judged. Now then lay all these together, Christ undertakes,