Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

Thirdly, more particularly Christ brings sanctification unto the heart, because the death of Christ is appointed by God, to have an efficacy to mortify sin and corruption, it is from application of the death of Christ, ⟨p. 304⟩filled with virtue, and appointed by God for that end, that it should have efficacy upon the heart, to mortify corruption in the heart. A man may resolve against his corruption, he may vow and covenant against a sin, he may strive and struggle against a sin, he may pray against a sin, he may fast to overcome his sin, he may use all means that he thinks he can possibly use to overcome his sin, and yet still his sin not dead in him, perhaps the means that he may use to restrain sin, may keep down his sin, but it will never mortify his sin. The application of the death of Christ, that is appointed by God, for Christ is appointed himself as the great ordinance. But now more particularly I say, that the way that is appointed by God for the mortifying of corruption, it is the application of the death of Christ to the soul, the virtue that comes from Christ as a dying Christ, from Christ as a crucified Christ, from Christ as a dead Christ to mortify corruption in the heart. That is clear from that place in Rom. 6. the beginning. What shall we say then? shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid, how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein (dead a part of his coming) know you not that so many of us as were baptized into Christ, were baptized into his death? therefore we are buried into Baptism by his death. And in vers. 5. For if we have been planted together, in the likeness of his death. Again in vers. 6. Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. The old man is crucified with him, in his being crucified, there is a virtue in Christs death for the crucifying of corruption, that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin. He doth not say, that we might have some power against sin, that sin might be restrained, or that such a particular sin may be kept down, but that the body of sin might be destroyed. So that in the application of the death of Christ, there is not only the overcoming ⟨p. 305⟩of this particular sin, but the Body of sin comes to be destroyed: