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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
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CHAP. 33.
Of the rest from Legal Performances, and the several ways how this rest comes from Christ, viz. duties are delightful to the soul, because Christ renders God unto the soul in a gracious way. 2. They are not performed as satisfactory, but as testimonies of love and thankfulness. 3 Christ himself offers up the duties to God. 4. They are performed from the Law in the heart. 5. They have the Promises joined with them.
Of the rest from Legal Performances, and the several waies how this rest comes from Christ, viz. duties are delightful to the soul, because Christ renders God unto the soul in a gracious way. 2. They are not performed as satisfactory, but as testimonies of love and thankfulness. 3 Christ himself offers up the duties to God. 4. They are performed from the Law in the heart. 5. They have the Promises joyned with them.
Now to make some entrance into the next thing, which hath great affinity to the other, and that is the rest that is in Christ from the trouble of spirit that there is in many, in regard of Legal performances, that you know I opened at large, the great burden that there is in the spirits of many people, who have convinced Consciences, and there Consciences pull and hale them to duty, and they dare not but perform duty, but when they do their duty, their very duties are a burden to them, for they do them, in a legal way. There are many I know that are acquainted with this, it is impossible to speak of such a subject but that there are divers that know what I mean, though others know not, to be under so much power of Conscience, as not to dare to omit a duty, though the duty be burdensome to them. There be many that are not under so much command of Conscience, but though conscience require them to do such a duty, they dare omit the duty, and they are not troubled at it; but but there are others who have not felt the Grace of the Gospel to set their souls at liberty, they are under so much command of conscience, that they dare not but do what Conscience requires, and yet the Lord knows, the