Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

The Sixth Lesson.

Sixthly, another Lesson that believers are to learn from the Rest that they have in Christ from the burden of the Law is this, that if they find any way or means to be delivered from the terrors that come by the Law, certainly then they need not be troubled with all the terror that possibly can come from any creature, from any men. If thy faith can deliver thee from the terror of the Law, and give rest to thy soul, notwithstanding all the terrible things in the Law threatened against thy sin, then thy faith may deliver thee much more from the terror of men, for take all the rage and power of all the men in the world, and devils in hell, they are not so terrible as the threats of the Law. Now if God hath given thee such a grace into thy heart, as thou by that comest to know a way to deliver thee from the terror of the threatening of the Law, and ⟨p. 260⟩to give Rest unto thy soul from that, then thou needst not be afraid of all terrors from wicked men, do but set that grace of thine a work, set it in exercise upon such promises as have given thee Rest from the Law, and this will free thee from the terrors of wicked men in the world. Truly, if believers did understand the reality of this point, there is nothing in the world could be terrible to them but they would have •est in their souls in the midst of all the terrors in the world, for they might reason thus, through the grace of faith that God hath given to me, my soul hath rest, when I hear the terrors of the Law dreadfully in my ears, yet I have that within me that gives me rest from them, and I am sure that all the terrors of all the men in the world, and devils in hell, cannot be more terrible than the threats of the Law, therefore as thou hast made use of thy faith to believe in Christ to get Rest from those terrors, in the like manner put forth thy faith when thou hearest the terrors of wicked men, to deliver thy soul from them, let there be never so much rumours in the world yet thou mayest say my soul return unto thy Rest.