A30566:784
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.
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, ⟨p. 230⟩the very writing of the Law of God in their hearts, which is that we cal 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 therfore 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.
Thirdly, The Law, it is a glass wherein we are to see our own faces, wherein we are to see how far we are declined from the image in which we first were made, and so far Christ hath not delivered us from it neither, for he would have us still to look into the law, as into a glass, to see how far we are come short of that that God did require of us, and that God did enable us to do, that is a third consideration of the Law.
Thirdly, The Law, it is a glass wherein we are to see our own faces, wherein we are to see how far we are declined from the image in which we first were made, and so far Christ hath not delivered us from it neither, for he would have us stil to look into the law, as into a glass, to see how far we are come short of that that God did require of us, and that God did inable us to do, that is a third consideration of the Law.