Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

this is the change and the rest that thou hast when thou comest to Christ, whereas thy soul, thy eternal estate, lay at the dispose of the Law that is full of rigour, and severity, now thy eternal estate doth depend upon a Covenant, that is as full of grace and mercy as thy soul could desire, thy soul cannot desire a covenant to be fuller of grace and mercy, then that covenant that thy everlasting estate depends upon, and must be cast by, and is not here rest now for a believer if he doth understand this aright? that is the first thing, wherein the rest of a believer consists by Christ, as being freed from the Law.

this is the change and the rest that thou hast when thou comest to Christ, wheras thy soul, thy eternal estate, lay at the dispose of the Law that is ful of rigor, and severity, now thy eternal estate doth depend upon a Covenant, that is as ful of grace and mercy as thy soul could desire, thy soul cannot desire a covenant to be fuller of grace and mercy, then that covenant that thy everlasting estate depends upon, and must be cast by, and is not here rest now for a beleever if he doth understand this aright? that is the first thing, wherein the rest of a beleever consists by Christ, as being freed from the Law.

2ly, now he that is the lawgiver, is thy redeemer, thou comest now to receive the law from the hand of a mediator & ⟨p. 236⟩here indeed is the principle ease and rest of a gracious heart, to the mind of a Saint, a believer, that now he comes to receive the Law from the hand of a mediator. There is many that speak of deliverance from the Law as it came by Moses, but if we understand things aright, we have no such cause to think that necessary, to be delivered from the Law as it came by Moses in one sense, that is thus, Moses was a type of Christ as a Mediator, for so he is called a Mediator, in Gal. 3.19. It was ordained by Angels in the hand of a mediator. God made use of the ministry of the Angels in delivering the law, and he gave it in the hand of a mediator, not to the people immediately, for they were not able to bear it, but in the hand of Moses, because he was to bring the Law from God unto them, and it was not immediately given unto them, but in his hand as in the hand of a Mediator. Now Moses is called a Mediator here, as a type of Christ, as he was a type of Christ; as he was a type of Christ in diverse respects, so in this, and he typified Christ in this particular, that the Law to believers, comes not unto them merely from God as a righteous and just God, as their Judg, but comes unto them in the hand of Christ as their Mediator, and there is a great deal of comfort in the Law to receive it thus, to receive it from the hand of Christ who is their Mediator, and (as I showed before) who is their advocate; for so he is called in scripture: that now they should receive the Law by his hand, that is at the right hand of the Father, to be their advocate, to plead for them when they shall through infirmity break the law; this is a mighty rest to the soul, therefore believers are to look upon the Law coming from God, but coming from God in the hand of a Mediator, to look upon their mediator as indeed their Law-giver, not only handing the Law to them as Moses did, but the truth is, the Law-giver himself, Christ the Mediator hands the Law to them, yea, is their Law-giver, and receives the Law for them: now this must needs be a great ease, a great