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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.
CHRIST INVITING SINNERS TO COME TO HIM. › Chapter 36 › Sanctification the Rest from Corruption.
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.
1 In this regard, because it is the right temper of the heart. As corruption was a burden, because it was the distemper of the heart, as sickness is a burden, so sanctification it is the right frame and temper of the soul, and so brings ease and rest unto the soul. If your bodies be distempered with sickness, you are a burden to your selves by it, you know not what to do, a sick body first lies down in one place, and then in another, and will change rooms, and change beds, & change postures, because he is a burden to himself. Let the distemper be gone, let the body be put into a right temper, and now he hath rest, now he can sleep quietly, now he hath ease in his body, his pain is over. Now sanctification is the ⟨p. 294⟩health of the soul, then the soul comes to be healthy when it comes to be holy, holiness is the due temper of the heart and therefore it is rest.
1 In this regard, because it is the right temper of the heart. As corruption was a burden, because it was the distemper of the heart, as sickness is a burden, so sanctification it is the right frame and temper of the soul, and so brings ease and rest unto the soul. If your bodies be distempered with sickness, you are a burden to your selves by it, you know not what to do, a sick body first lies down in one place, and then in another, and wil change roomes, and change beds, & change postures, because he is a burden to himself. Let the distemper be gone, let the body be put into a right temper, and now he hath rest, now he can sleep quietly, now he hath ease in his body, his pain is over. Now sanctification is the ⟨p. 294⟩health of the soul, then the soul comes to be healthy when it comes to be holy, holiness is the due temper of the heart and therefore it is rest.
2. Sanctification is the rest of the heart, because in that the soul doth in great part attain its end, now what is it that the soul rests in, so much as in its end; every thing rests when it comes to its end, the end is as the proper place in which every creature rests, now by sanctification the soul doth attain its end in great part, as.