Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

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 ⟨p. 243⟩of hatred too, for so the Scripture tells us plainly, that the Lord hates the workers of iniquity; now being come to Christ according to this invitation, Come to me ye that are Laden, now your sins being looked upon in Christ, do rather make you an object of pity and compassion to God, not from any virtue, not from any thing in its own Nature, but in regard of your condition: as thus, let a tender Mother look upon the Child that is sick, that is wounded; it is true, the Mother cannot Love the distemper, or love the wound, the Mother would not have the sickness, or the wound upon the Child, but doth not the sickness or wound that is upon the Child, make the Child to be an object of pity and Compassion, Make the bowels of a tender Father and Mother, to yearn so much the more to the Child? So here, the Lord now looks upon thy sin, being in Christ, as thy sickness, as thy wound, and therefore doth pity thee, as under thy affliction rather then under thy sin. For the truth is, all those that are the Saints of God and are come to Christ, they look upon their own sins as their affliction, as the greatest affliction they have in the world, as I showed when I spake of the load and Burden of Corruption that remains in their Hearts, Now God therefore looks up on thy sin as thine affliction, and as for any other thing that is thy affliction, as it is the breach of the Law or the like, Christ undertakes for that, and so thou art delivered from the wrath that it doth deserve, and those evil effects that should come of it through the revenging justice of God, Christ hath undertaken it, but yet it remains thy affliction, though thou art delivered from guiltiness, and condemnation, yet one that hath a gracious Heart Reasons thus.

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 ⟨p. 243⟩