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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.
Showeth the Rest, from the remainder of Corruption to be Sanctification, and that to be a great Rest, Laid open in six particulars. 1. It is the right temper of the heart. 2. In it the soul doth in great part attain its end. 3. In it the Soul lives the life of God. 4. It raiseth the soul above the region of all troubles. 5. It turns every thing to good. 6. It is the beginning of Glory.
Sheweth the Rest, from the remainder of Corruption to be Sanctification, and that to be a great Rest, Laid open in six particulars. 1. It is the right temper of the heart. 2. In it the soul doth in great part attain its end. 3. In it the Soul lives the life of God. 4. It raiseth the soul above the region of al troubles. 5. It turnes every thing to good. 6. It is the beginning of Glory.
You may remember when we handled the point of the load that was upon sinners, we showed, that the remainder of corruption was a great burden, it was so great a load, that it made the Apostle cry out, Oh! wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death. How that was a load hath been already opened.
YOu may remember when we handled the point of the load that was upon sinners, we shewed, that the remainder of corruption was a great burden, it was so great a load, that it made the Apostle cry out, Oh! wretched man that I am, who shal deliver me from this body of death. How that was a load hath been already opened.
That which we have now to do is to show what rest is to be had in Christ against this fourth burden. Come to me (saith Christ) all you who are sensible of the corruption of your heart, and find the remainder of sin that is in your heart to be a burden, come to me, & I will give you rest against that. We are not now to speak of the rest in deliverance from the trouble of soul in the sense of the guilt of sin, that was before spoke of, but now we are to speak of the rest, in giving power against the remainder of corruption that there is in the heart. This rest is the rest of Sanctification that here we are to speak of, I will give you rest. And in this point there are a great many of