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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.
As for instance, in Zacheus, you know how Christ came to look upon him, there was a touch of Christ upon his heart, and presently he comes off, and though before he was a covetous man, and there was covetousness in his heart, and he had got much by forged cavillation yet presently he saith, Behold the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. ⟨p. 269⟩Now what duty is harder then restitution? when a man hath got much by wrong to restore it again, as often you have heard, you can have no comfort, all your sorrows will do no good, till you have made restitution and the ground is plain, because till you make restitution you continue in the wrong, you have done wrong to such a man, such a time in his estate, well, you do him wrong to day, and to morrow and the next day till you restore, I say you continue in your sin till you restore, if you be able to restore. Now you cannot say a man repents of his sin, if he continue in his sin, and you continue in your sin, though God doth not require you to go and make your self known to them, yet though your persons be not known to them, the wrong must be made known to them, Just so is the difference between one that is only under the terror of the Law, and one that hath got rest in Christ, the difference is as in a Ship, a Ship that hath one part of it sticking in the mud and sands, and the water beating it up and down, and ready to burst it in pieces, but now if the tide come and fetch it off, And it is got upon the stream, then you may by the touch of a little finger thrust it this way and that way with ease, when it is once upon the water:
As for instance, in Zacheus, you know how Christ came to look upon him, there was a touch of Christ upon his heart, and presently he comes off, and though before he was a covetous man, and there was covetousness in his heart, and he had got much by forged cavillation yet presently he saith, Behold the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. ⟨p. 269⟩Now what duty is harder then restitution? when a man hath got much by wrong to restore it again, as often you have heard, you can have no comfort, al your sorrows wil do no good, til you have made restitution and the ground is plain, because til you make restitution you continue in the wrong, you have done wrong to such a man, such a time in his estate, wel, you do him wrong to day, and to morrow and the next day til you restore, I say you continue in your sin til you restore, if you be able to restore. Now you cannot say a man repents of his sin, if he continue in his sin, and you continue in your sin, though God doth not require you to go and make your self known to them, yet though your persons be not known to them, the wrong must be made known to them, Just so is the difference between one that is only under the terror of the Law, and one that hath got rest in Christ, the difference is as in a Ship, a Ship that hath one part of it sticking in the mud and sands, and the water beating it up and down, and ready to burst it in peeces, but now if the tide come and fetch it off, And it is got upon the streame, then you may by the touch of a little finger thrust it this way and that way with ease, when it is once upon the water: