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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.
Sixthly, It is the end of thy Labour, what dost thou endeavour after? what dost thou labour after, if thou beest Godly, but that thou mayest be more Godly, that thou mayest be more sanctified, surely that which is the end of our coming into the world, that is the end of all Gods ways towards thee, that which is the end of all Gods ordinances, which is the end of thy desires, and the end of thy Labour, that must needs be rest, in attaining that thou must needs attain Rest.
Sixthly, It is the end of thy Labor, what dost thou endeavor after? what dost thou labor after, if thou beest Godly, but that thou mayest be more Godly, that thou mayest be more sanctified, surely that which is the end of our comming into the world, that is the end of al Gods wayes towards thee, that which is the end of al Gods ordinances, which is the end of thy desires, and the end of thy Labor, that must needs be rest, in attaining that thou must needs attain Rest.
3. Sanctification is rest unto the soul, in that the soul lives even the life of God, the soul doth not only live to God but lives in God, and therefore must needs live in Rest. You have a notable expression for that in 1. John. 2.24. Let that therefore abide in you, which we heard from the beginning, if that which ye heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the son and in the father. You shall continue in the son and in the father. When the truths of the Gospel working on the heart unto holiness, abides in the heart, such a soul doth abide in the son and in the father, lives in God, and therefore must needs have rest, must needs have rest there where it lives in God. Its true, the Saints they live in the world, but as they live in the world so they live in God, even in God here.
3. Sanctification is rest unto the soul, in that the soul lives even the life of God, the soul doth not only live to God but lives in God, and therefore must needs live in Rest. You have a notable expression for that in