Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

Sanctification the Rest from Corruption.

I. Sanctification is great rest unto the soul of a believer, the truth is, there is nothing troubles the heart of a strong believer, but only the want of his Sanctification, nothing in the world I say troubles the heart of a strong believer but that. It is time, a weak believer is troubled for want of the apprehension of the pardon of his sin, a weak believer hath trouble of spirit still in the sense of the guilt of sin, but a strong believer gets ⟨p. 293⟩over that. A weak believer hath trouble by the Law still, because through the weakness of his faith, he is not able to make use of the Covenant of grace that God hath brought him into, so as to deliver himself from trouble that way, a strong believer gets over that. A weak believer performs duties, but there is a great deal of legality in his performance of them, that many times they are troublesome to him, but a strong believer gets over that burden, but now the remaining corruption that is in the heart, none in this world gets over this. Indeed in great part the strong believer hath got power there also, a great deal more then the weak one hath done, but the chief burden that lies upon a strong believer in this world is the remainder of corruption that is yet in him. And so for the next burden of affliction, the strong believer gets well over that too, but this is one chief burden of the strongest believers that the world hath, that yet there is much remaining corruption in them. As it was in Paul, though a strong believer, saith he. Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death, as you heard it formerly opened to you, so that sanctification is a special rest that believers have, it is a rest.

I. Sanctification is great rest unto the soul of a beleever, the truth is, there is nothing troubles the heart of a strong beleever, but only the want of his Sanctification, nothing in the world I say troubles the heart of a strong beleever but that. It is time, a weak beleever is troubled for want of the apprehension of the pardon of his sin, a weak beleever hath trouble of spirit stil in the sense of the guilt of sin, but a strong beleever gets