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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.
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 1. John. 2.24. Let that therefore abide in you, which we heard from the beginning, if that which ye heard from the beginning shal remain in you, ye also shal continue in the son and in the father. You shal 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.
4. Sanctification it must needs be rest unto the heart because that is a principle that raiseth the soul, above the region of all kind of trouble and molestation. As the Philosophers tell us, that here, in the inferior region, there are storms, tempests, changes, and alterations, but in the region on high, the third region, that is above storms, tempests, winds and blusterings, there is nothing but quiet, nothing but peace there. It is true, while the heart of a man or woman is grovelling here below in the world