Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

But now when the Gospel comes, it doth not only cause some sorrow, but the Heart melts, and this is accepted as very precious before God; and that is the Reason that we have in Scripture so many expressions of Gods high esteem of broken Hearts and contrite Spirits, and how God looks at them. He that dwells on high, yet looks to him that is of an Humble and contrite Spirit, and that trembles at his word, and let me speak this one word, for the ease of them that are troubled, and are come to Christ; those tears that come from thy melted Heart, through the Grace of the Gospel, they are of all things most precious in the Eyes of God, next to the blood of Christ, next to the drops of Christs blood, thy mourning, Lamenting Spirit, is one of the most precious things in the Eyes of God, God treasures up every one of them, and this is the Rest of the Soul, the Soul may have abundance of Rest therefore in Christ, when thou comest to know that thy mourning for thy offences is accepted of God.

But now when the Gospel comes, it doth not only cause some sorrow, but the Heart melts, and this is accepted as very precious before God; and that is the Reason that we have in Scripture so many expressions of Gods high esteem of broken Hearts and contrite Spirits, and how God looks at them. He that dwels on high, yet looks to him that is of an Humble and contrite Spirit, and that trembles at his word, and let me speak this one word, for the ease of them that are troubled, and are come to Christ; those tears that come from thy melted Heart, through the Grace of the Gospel, they are of all things most precious in the Eyes of God, next to the blood of Christ, next to the drops of Christs blood, thy mourning, Lamenting Spirit, is one of the most precious things in the Eyes of God, God treasures up every one of them, and this is the Rest of the Soul, the Soul may have abundance of Rest therefore in Christ, when thou comest to know that thy mourning for thy offences is accepted of God.

Seventhly, The ease that the Soul hath from the burden of the Law is this, That whereas before, through the severity of the Law, sin did make thy Soul an object of Gods wrath, take sin as it was in it self, and coming from thee, God having no respect in Christ towards thee, sin made thy Soul an object of Gods wrath, Yea, and