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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
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.
Now to these Christ speaks, come ro me and I will give you rest, in the believing in Christ, in the exercising of faith in Christ there is deliverance from this burden, and many poor souls that for many years have gone on under this burden, whom the Lord hath opened to them the grace of Christ, their hearts have been at liberty, so as they have been as conscientious in performing of duty as before, but now their duty is made the joy and delight of their souls, they have gone to them with rejoicing, and made the Commandments of God to be their inheritance, and the joy of their hearts, and their duties are as sweet to them as the honey and the honey comb. Now this is the argument that we are upon, that in Christ there is rest from this burden, Christ gives ability unto believers, those that are his members to perform duties with freedom of spirit, and indeed evangelical duties are duties performed with freedom, that is the difference between legal performances and evangelical; one is done as a burden, and the other is done with freedom of spirit. Now I shall show unto you, how Christ gives this freedom Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, you know the scripture I suppose, now this freedom of spirit in the performance of duty comes by Christ these ways.
Now to these Christ speaks, come ro me and I wil give you rest, in the beleeving in Christ, in the exercising of faith in Christ there is deliverance from this burden, and many poor souls that for many yeares have gone on under this burden, whom the Lord hath opened to them the grace of Christ, their hearts have been at liberty, so as they have been as conscientious in performing of duty as before, but now their duty is made the joy and delight of their souls, they have gone to them with rejoycing, and made the Commandements of God to be their inheritance, and the joy of their hearts, and their duties are as sweet to them as the hony and the hony comb. Now this is the argument that we are upon, that in Christ there is rest from this burden, Christ gives ability unto beleevers, those that are his members to performe duties with freedom of spirit, and indeed evangelical duties are duties performed with freedom, that is the difference between legal performances and evangelical; one is done as a burden, and the other is done with freedom of spirit. Now I shal shew unto you, how Christ gives this freedom Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, you know the scripture I suppose, now this freedom of spirit in the performance of duty comes by Christ these waies.