Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

First, when the soul is come to Christ it hath rest, because Christ renders God unto the soul in a gracious way Christ takes off the terror that was before of God, takes off that from the heart. The reason why duties are performed as a burden to those that are legal is this, because they tender them up to God, but so as they look upon God as a terrible judg, they must do what God requires, I, but when they come into his presence, they come into his presence as a judg, being very terrible, Now when ⟨p. 264⟩the soul comes to Christ, Christ renders God very amiable, and lo•ely unto the soul of a Christian, renders God the father as his father, or her father. For so Christ says, I go to my father and your father, to look upon God, not only as a father, but our father, as being the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, So believers in the performance of duties, look upon God as a father in a double relation. He is my father, he hath begotten me a new to himself, and so he is my father, he is my father, he hath adopted me to be his child, but he is the father of our Lord Jesus Christ too, and Christ is mine two, so that I have an interest in the fatherhood, as I may so speak, as the father of Christ, I go to my father and your father.

First, when the soul is come to Christ it hath rest, because Christ renders God unto the soul in a gracious way Christ takes off the terror that was before of God, takes off that from the heart. The reason why duties are performed as a burden to those that are legal is this, because they tender them up to God, but so as they look upon God as a terrible judg, they must do what God requires, I, but when they come into his presence, they come into his presence as a judg, being very terrible, Now when ⟨p. 264⟩the soul comes to Christ, Christ renders God very amiable, and lo•ely unto the soul of a Christian, renders God the father as his father, or her father. For so Christ saies, I go to my father and your father, to look upon God, not only as a father, but our father, as being the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, So beleevers in the performance of duties, look upon God as a father in a double relation. He is my father, he hath begotten me a new to himself, and so he is my father, he is my father, he hath adopted me to be his child, but he is the father of our Lord Jesus Christ too, and Christ is mine two, so that I have an interest in the fatherhood, as I may so speak, as the father of Christ, I go to my father and your father.