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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.
Secondly, Christ is our Sanctification, as the great ordinance that God hath set up for the Sanctifying of the hearts of his people. I say, Christ is set up as the great ordinance appointed by God for this end, the Lord hath set him up and filled him full of holiness, that holiness might be conveyed through him unto the souls that do belong unto him. And therefore it is said, in that known place, As in John, 1.16. Of his fullness we receive Grace for Grace. Of his fullness Jesus Christ is filled full of holiness, as a cistern filled full of precious liquor, and grace must come through him unto the souls of all those that are Godly, that are believers. Faith draws grace from him, grace for grace, that is, grace answerable to grace, as print for print in a seal, there is print for print in the wax, look what print there is in the seal, the same print is in the wax, So look what grace is in Christ, there is answerably in some measure the same grace in the Saints. Of his fullness we receive, and all the believers that ever were in the world have received all the grace that ever they have had from him, out of his fullness, and from him as the great ordinance that God hath set up, for the dispensation of the graces of his spirit, for the working of Sanctification in all those that shall be saved. Yea Christ, is such an ordinance appointed by God the father for holiness, and sanctification, as indeed, there is so much virtue in him, that the very looking upon Christ, hath a power to sanctify the heart, the very looking upon him. As the brazen serpent in the wilderness, you know, was the great ordinance of God appointed for the healing of those that were stung with serpents, and being the ordinance appointed for their healing, those that did but look up to the brazen Serpent received virtue presently, and were healed of their sting, of the deadly disease that was upon them by the stinging of Serpents, now this was by virtue of that ordinance.
Secondly, Christ is our Sanctification, as the great ordinance that God hath set up for the Sanctifying of the hearts of his people. I say, Christ is set up as the great ordinance oppainted by God for this end, the Lord hath set him up and filled him ful of holyness, that holyness might be conveyed through him unto the souls that do belong unto him. And therefore it is said, in that known place, As in John, 1.16. Of his fullness we receive Grace for Grace. Of his fulness Jesus Christ is filled ful of holiness, as a cistern fild ful of precious liquor, and grace must come through him unto the souls of all those that are Godly, that are beleevers. Faith draws grace from him, grace for grace, that is, grace answerable to grace, as print for print in a seal, there is print for print in the wax, look what print there is in the seal, the same print is in the wax, So look what grace is in Christ, there is answerably in some measure the same grace in the Saints. Of his fulness we receive, and al the beleevers that ever were in the world have received al the grace that ever they have had from him, out of his fulness, and from him as the great ordinance that God hath set up, for the dispensation of the graces of his spirit, for the working of Sanctification in al those that shal be saved. Yea Christ, is such an ordinance appointed by God the father for holyness, and sanctification, as indeed, there is so much virtue in him, that the very looking upon Christ, hath a power to sanctify the heart, the very looking upon him. As the brazen serpent in the wilderness, you know, was the great ordinance of God appointed for the healing of those that were stung with serpents, and being the ordinance appointed for their healing, those that did but look up to the brazen Serpent received virtue presently, and were healed of their sting, of the deadly disease that was upon them by the stinging of Serpents, now this was by virtue of that ordinance.