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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.
So when believers come to tender up any service to God as a duty, they come to God as their father, and as to the father of their redeemer too, now this brings a mighty deal of ease unto the heart of a believer in the performance of duty a great deal of difference there is, between a fathers calling the child to him, and a rigid severe master or judge calling of one to him. When the child hears that his father calls him, he runs, and loves to be in the presence of his father, but when one saith to a servant, your master calls you; he knows not whether he be called to be beaten with stripes or no.
So when beleevers come to tender up any service to God as a duty, they come to God as their father, and as to the father of their redeemer too, now this brings a mighty deale of ease unto the heart of a beleever in the performance of duty a great deal of difference there is, between a fathers calling the child to him, and a rigid severe master or judge calling of one to him. When the child heares that his father cals him, he runs, and loves to be in the presence of his father, but when one saith to a servant, your master calls you; he knows not whether he be called to be beaten with stripes or no.
This is the difference between legal performances, and evangelical, those that are in Christ, when Christ calls them to duty, you must go into the presence of your father and of the father of your blessed redeemer, you must go to duty in him. Come, go to prayer saith Conscience to one, they cannot but go indeed, but when they go to prayer their heart is struck with fear, terror, and discouragement in prayer: but Conscience saith to one that is a believer, come, you must go to prayer, what is that? but come, you must go before your father and enjoy communion with your father, the father of your redeemer calls you to have communion with him, & ⟨p. 265⟩how doth your heart spring to come into the presence of such a father! So that Christ renders them lovely to his father, and so delivers them from the burden that they are under in legal performances.