Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

CHAP. XL.

Showing how Sanctification comes from Christ, in six Particulars more. 1. It is he that reveals the Father to the Soul. 2. Through Christ the Love of God is shed abroad into the heart. 3. All the Promises are made to us through him. 4. In him all the Ordinances are effectual. 5. He sends the Spirit into the heart. 6. Christ Rules in the heart.

Shewing how Sanctification comes from Christ, in six Particulars more. 1. It is he that reveals the Father to the Soul. 2. Through Christ the Love of God is shed abroad into the heart. 3. All the Promises are made to us through him. 4. In him all the Ordinances are effectual. 5. He sends the Spirit into the heart. 6. Christ Rules in the heart.

Seventhly: Christ comes to be our Sanctification, we have the rest of sanctification in Christ thus: It's Christ that doth make known the Father unto the soul: No man knows the Father (saith Christ) but the Son, and him to whom the Son reveals him. I suppose you know the Scripture; And if you have seen me (saith Christ) you have seen the Father, in John 14. It is Christ that makes known God unto the soul, and there is a mighty power to work Holiness in the heart by the knowledge of God. Saith the Apostle St. John, in 1 John 2.4. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his Commandments, is a liar. The knowledge of God cannot stand with the neglect of Gods Commandments. There is a mighty power in the knowledge of God for the Sanctifying of the heart, the very looking upon Gods Holiness hath a great deal of power to sanctify the heart; and the reason of all the wickedness and profaneness in the world, it is because men know not the Lord, know not what an infinite, blessed, glorious God they have to deal withal: They that know thy Name, will trust in thee, saith the Psalmist. So may we say, Those that know thy Name, O Lord, will fear thee, they will serve thee, they will walk before thee in obedience and Holiness. Now the