Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

The Lord will spare them as a man spareth his own son hat serveth him. And so in the Romans it is said God did not spare his own son, and yet in Malachi that he will spare thee as a man spareth his only son that serveth him. What should be the meaning of this? That God should not spare his only begotten son the Lord Jesus Christ, he will not spare him, but thee? This is the reason, he did not spare him that he might Spare thee, here is the reason why God will so spare thee in the performance of thy duties, because he would not spare his son, he was so exact to him that he might not be so exact to thee.

The Lord wil spare them as a man spareth his own son hat serveth him. And so in the Romans it is said God did not spare his own son, and yet in Malachy that he wil spare thee as a man spareth his only son that serveth him. What should be the meaning of this? That God should not spare his only begotten son the Lord Jesus Christ, he wil not spare him, but thee? This is the reason, he did not spare him that he might Spare thee, here is the reason why God wil so spare thee in the performance of thy duties, because he would not spare his son, he was so exact to him that he might not be so exact to thee.

Indeed when Christ came to perform duties, the life of all the world, lay upon that, that if Christ had failed in one thing, the life of all the world lay upon it, yet so they lay upon him, that they were not grievous to him, because he was most able to perform it: But thou must make use of Christs performances in way of obedience so as to give thee rest & ease in performance of thy duties, think thus, I come now to perform duties, and thanks be to God, my life, my eternal estate, lies not upon it, but Christ what he performed my soul, and all the world lay upon what he did, and the weight that Christ was willing to take upon him in his obedience, is that which makes any obedience so easy and comfortable to me. I remember we read in the Law, that in peace offerings, a female was accepted: in other cases ordinarily God required the male, but in peace offerings, the female; now peace offerings was for thanksgiving, and indeed the whole life of a Christian is nothing else but a peace-offering, his whole conversation, all the duties that God requires of any christian it is nothing else but a peace offering, to offer an offering of thanks-giving for the mercy he hath received from Christ, in this peace offering the