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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.
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.
Fourthly, the Law is a revelation of the will of God, it reveals what is the holy and righteous will of God towards his creature, and in that consideration we are not delivered from it neither, we are to look into that to see what the will of God is concerning us.
Fourthly, the Law is a revelation of the wil of God, it reveales what is the holy and righteous wil of God towards his creature, and in that consideration we are not delivered from it neither, we are to look into that to see what the wil of God is concerning us.
Lastly, which follows from thence, the law is still an authoritative rule for our conversation, to order our conversation; that the scripture is as clear in, as in any one truth that is in the book of God, it is indeed a point, that were it not for a strange kind of wantonness that hath possest the spirits of some, it were never needful to spend one quarter, or minute of an hour upon it. That place in