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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.
First, Therefore, we are to know, that the Law (I speak of the moral Law, not of the ceremonial law now, But of the moral Law, For the Apostle spake of that here in this place) the Law it is indeed the very glass of Gods holiness, I say, it is a glass of the holiness of God, in the moral Law we may see the lustre and the glory of the holiness of God himself, and therefore we are not to be delivered from it, as it is the glass of Gods holiness, wherein we may see the purity of Gods Nature, the Law of God shows God to be a holy God, different from all the Heathens, who have not a holy and Righteous Law as our God hath.
First, Therefore, we are to know, that the Law (I speak of the morral Law, not of the ceremonial law now, But of the morral Law, For the Apostle spake of that here in this place) the Law it is indeed the very glass of Gods holiness, I say, it is a glass of the holiness of God, in the morral Law we may see the lustre and the glory of the holiness of God himself, and therefore we are not to be delivered from it, as it is the glass of Gods holiness, wherein we may see the purity of Gods Nature, the Law of God shews God to be a holy God, different from all the Heathens, who have not a holy and Righteous Law as our God hath.
Secondly, The Law, it is an extract of the very Image that God made man in at the first, an extract of Gods Image, as it were a copy of the Image of God. What was the Image that God made man in at the first? But in the impression of his Law in their Hearts, ⟨p. 230⟩the very writing of the Law of God in their hearts, which is that we call the moral law, in that consisted the very Image of God in mans soul at his first creation, when he was in his innocency, and therefore we cannot be said to be delivered from that as it is a copy and extract of Gods Image in the heart of man, it is rather renewed by Christ than abolished by Christ.
Secondly, The Law, it is an extract of the very Image that God made man in at the first, an extract of Gods Image, as it were a copy of the Image of God. What was the Image that God made man in at the first? But in the imperssion of his Law in their Hearts,