Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

NOW then, from all these, we shall lay down several propositions, wherein you may see what is the ease and rest that believers have in Christ, in being delivered thus from the law. Take the ease that comes by Christ from hence, in these several particulars, O! thou believer, that art under the load of the law, and come to Christ.

NOW then, from al these, we shal lay downe several propositions, wherein you may see what is the ease and rest that beleevers have in Christ, in being delivered thus from the law. Take the ease that comes by Christ from hence, in these several particulars, O! thou beleever, that art under the load of the law, and come to Christ.

First, Know, That thou dost not stand and fall for thy eternal estate by the law, that is the first Ease and Rest, the law indeed may threaten thee, and dreadful things may be revealed by it against thee, but be of good comfort in this, thy eternal estate shall not be cast by it, it is full of severity, but thou art so far free, that whereas before thou didst depend and rely upon that for thy eternal condition, now thou art out of the power, out of the reach of it, so far that it hath not to do with thee, to cast thy soul for thy eternal estate; we would not be at the ⟨p. 235⟩dispose of any man that we look upon as full of severity and rigour in matters of great consequence, but we do desire rather to be, in such cases, at the dispose of men, who are full of pity and compassion, know, O! thou believer, who art in Christ, that thou art not at the dispose of the Law, that is full of severity, for thy everlasting condition, but thou art at the dispose of the Gospel, of the covenant of grace, that is filled as full with mercy and compassion, as an infinite wisdom could devise, it hath that fullness of compassion, more then possibly all the wisdom of the angels in heaven, and men upon earth could ever have devised or thought on, beyond their imagination: Now for one to be at the dispose of a man in matters of the greatest concernment, that hath as much mercy in him, as ever man had in this world, yea, as much mercy in him as were in all the men in the world, If all the mercy that were in all the men in the world were put into one, the heart of one man, and you were to be at his dispose in a matter of the greatest concernment, you would think your selves well, whereas before you lay at the mercy of a man that is very rigorous, and full of severity, now you come to lie at the mercy of a man that hath all the bowels and tender compassions of all the men in the world, would you not think this a good change?