Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

Because at one application of the death of Christ, all the body of sin comes to be destroyed, though not quite dead and withered. As a Tree though it may be dead, yet the Leaves may be green still: So though there be not at first the withering of them, yet there is the deadly stroke given, and therefore the way to kill them is to renew the application of the death of Christ. And indeed this should be the care of a Christian, not to keep from the acting of sin so much, as to find that the death of Christ is applied to him. And hence you never read of any such thing as mortification in any Heathen Author in the World, the mortification of corruption is a Riddle to all Heathen Writers in the World. The mortifying of corruption, and the mortifying of their own hearts, this is a peculiar expression of the Gospel, and indeed it is peculiar to Believers. Many men, through good Education are so restrained, that they are very fair in their course; others as they come to more understanding, the vanity of their youth being overcome, there is not that profaneness committed by them as heretofore; I but, what is this to mortification of the body of death that is in their hearts, this is only peculiar to a Christian, and it is from the application of the death of Christ, the application of a Christ dying, of a Christ crucifying, of a Christ shedding his blood for sin; this hath a virtue to mortify sin. There is a great deal of difference between a mortified lust, and a restrained lust, a mortified sin, and a restrained sin. The difference lies in this one thing, for I must not go out to handle the Point, but only this one thing take it by the way: When a lust is mortified, there is not only a ceasing from the act of it, but there is now an unsuitableness ⟨p. 307⟩between the heart and the sin, whereas there may be much restraint of sin, and yet still there may remain a suitableness between the disposition of the heart and the sin, only they dare not commit it, but when sin is mortified, the heart is so changed, that there is an unsuitableness wrought between the heart and corruption now, and this mortification of the body of sin is by the death of Christ.

Because at one application of the death of Christ, al the body of sin comes to be destroyed, though not quite dead and withered. As a Tree though it may be dead, yet the Leaves may be green still: So though there be not at first the withering of them, yet there is the deadly stroke given, and therefore the way to kill them is to renew the application of the death of Christ. And indeed this should be the care of a Christian, not to keep from the acting of sin so much, as to find that the death of Christ is applied to him. And hence you never read of any such thing as mortification in any Heathen Author in the World, the mortification of corruption is a Riddle to all Heathen Writers in the World. The mortifying of corruption, and the mortifying of their own hearts, this is a peculiar expression of the Gospel, and indeed it is peculiar to Beleevers. Many men, through good Education are so restrained, that they are very fair in their course; others as they come to more understanding, the vanity of their youth being overcome, there is not that prophaneness committed by them as heretofore; I but, what is this to mortification of the body of death that is in their hearts, this is only peculiar to a Christian, and it is from the application of the death of Christ, the application of a Christ dying, of a Christ crucifying, of a Christ shedding his blood for sin; this hath a virtue to mortifie sin. There is a great deal of difference between a mortified lust, and a restrained lust, a mortified sin, and a restrained sin. The difference lies in this one thing, for I must not go out to handle the Point, but only this one thing take it by the way: When a lust is mortified, there is not only a ceasing from the act of it, but there is now an unsuitableness