A30566:818
Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest
Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest by Jeremiah Burroughs.Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest by Jeremiah Burroughes.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1659
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Ninthly, […] all this, there is this ease from the Law that the sinn• […] Christ is delivered from all this rigour, bondage, and other things that I spoke of in the Law, and yet so delivered from the Law by satisfaction to the Law, and this is further ease to the soul, I am delivered from the Law, But how? by satisfaction to the Law, there is satisfaction to the Law, that is such satisfaction as the Law-giver himself doth accept of, which is only in Christ, not all that I can do, can possibly do it, if I could conceive that God were so merciful, as to accept of any thing I can do, yet it could not be satisfaction to the Law, but now our deliverance from the Law is in a way that is satisfaction unto the Law, and here now is ease, that the soul is freed so, as the Law is satisfied too.
Ninthly, 〈…〉 al this, there is this ease from the Law that the sinn• 〈…〉 Christ is delivered from al this rigor, bondage, and other things that I spoke of in the Law, and yet so delivered from the Law by satisfaction to the Law, and this is further ease to the soul, I am delivered from the Law, But how? by satisfaction to the Law, there is satisfaction to the Law, that is such satitfaction as the Law-giver himself doth accept of, which is only in Christ, not al that I can do, can possibly do it, if I could conceive that God were so merciful, as to accept of any thing I can do, yet it could not be satisfaction to the Law, but now our deliverance from the Law is in a way that is satisfaction unto the Law, and here now is ease, that the soul is freed so, as the Law is satisfied too.
Tenthly, Whereas the law required constant obedience, and if there were obedience to the end, to the last act, and the last act were sin, all the other would be forgotten so as the soul would yet perish notwithstanding, and the Law could not assure any man of continuance to the end the law could never do it, could not assure any so long as they ⟨p. 247⟩