Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

Oh! take heed of abusing the rich grace of God in Christ, this I know, that this is such a pure quality, that it hath not such a malignant quality in it that it will be abused, and where you see any such quality, know that they have it not aright, they have something else instead of the thing, as sometimes you shall see two things as like one another as can be, suppose drinks made with some kind of composition, they shall look just like one another, but one shall have some venom in it, enough to kill one, and the other shall be wholesome and able to recover one, yet both shall have the same •ur, and the same taste, so it is with the free grace •d in Christ, you may have the same word spoken, •e thing expressed to one and to another, the very same thing preached for the outside of it, for the word, for the expression in a sermon, the same doctrine raised for the expression, and yet they shall be so carried that one shall have a malignancy in it, and the other shall have a sovereign power in it: now when the soul hath the true rest in Christ, that rest hath not such a malignant power to make the heart worse by it. But of that I shall speak more afterwards.

Oh! take heed of abusing the rich grace of God in Christ, this I know, that this is such a pure quality, that it hath not such a malignant quality in it that it wil be abused, and where you see any such quality, know that they have it not aright, they have something else instead of the thing, as sometimes you shal see two things as like one another as can be, suppose drinks made with some kind of composition, they shal look just like one another, but one shal have some venom in it, enough to kil one, and the other shal be wholesome and able to recover one, yet both shal have the same •ur, and the same tast, so it is with the free grac• •d in Christ, you may have the same word spoken, •e thing exprest to one and to another, the very same thing preached for the outside of it, for the word, for the expression in a sermon, the same doctrin raised for the expression, and yet they shal be so carried that one shal have a malignancy in it, and the other shal have a soveraigne power in it: now when the soul hath the true rest in Christ, that rest hath not such a malignant power to make the heart worse by it. But of that I shall speake more afterwards.