Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

Eighthly, It is through Christ that the love of God is shed abroad into the heart of a believer, and that hath a mighty power to sanctify the heart, the shedding abroad of the love of God into the heart, this only can be in Christ. There may be, though out of Christ, common fruits of Gods bounty, general patience, goodness, and the like, but the special love of God, that hath a sanctifying power that goes along with it, it is that only that is in Christ, and when the soul comes once to have union with Christ, there flows the sweet sense of the love of God unto the heart, it is shed abroad, according unto the scripture Phrase, that the heart being filled with the sweetness of Gods love, and comes to be sanctified thereby, then all base love of the creature, and the love of sin comes to be eaten out, and the heart comes to be carried on, in a blessed, sweet, and gracious manner after the Lord. Al the terror of the Law cannot sanctify, so as the shedding abroad of the love of Christ in the heart can. Indeed, by the terror of the Law sin may be restrained, but by the terror of the Law the heart can never be sanctified. This is a certain truth, the terror of the Law may restrain from sin, but it can never sanctify the heart, the terrors of the Law are useful to be preached in that way, for to restrain Sin, but when we preach them, we do not think that we can thereby possibly sanctify the heart, corruption may be restrained for a while, but, that which must sanctify the heart must be the love of God in Jesus Christ, As I remember. Fulgentius, compares the love of God in Christ in the heart of a believer, to the fire that is within the furnace, and the love of God in his common bounty, to a few sparks that fly out at a distance from the mouth of the furnace; take all the love of God that is in the creature suppose the Lord should give unto you the possession of all the world, and should make a thousand worlds and give thee possession of them all, this were but as a spark from the furnace; but the love of God in Christ is as the ⟨p. 320⟩heat of the furnace: and as the heat (you know) consumes stubble, & combustible matter put into it, so there is that heat in the love of God shed abroad in the heart by Christ, that consumes the lust of the heart, and the soul grows up into holiness thereby.

Eighthly, It is through Christ that the love of God is shed abroad into the heart of a beleever, and that hath a mighty power to sanctify the heart, the shedding abroad of the love of God into the heart, this only can be in Christ. There may be, though out of Christ, common fruites of Gods bounty, general patience, goodness, and the like, but the special love of God, that hath a sanctifying power that goes along with it, it is that only that is in Christ, and when the soul comes once to have union with Christ, there flowes the sweet sence of the love of God unto the heart, it is shed abroad, according unto the scripture Phrase, that the heart being filled with the sweetness of Gods love, and comes to be sanctified thereby, then al base love of the creature, and the love of sin comes to be eaten out, and the heart comes to be carried on, in a blessed, sweet, and gracious manner after the Lord. Al the terror of the Law cannot sanctifie, so as the shedding abroad of the love of Christ in the heart can. Indeed, by the terror of the Law sin may be restrained, but by the terror of the Law the heart can never be sanctified. This is a certain truth, the terror of the Law may restrain from sin, but it can never sanctifie the heart, the terrors of the Law are useful to be preached in that way, for to restrain Sin, but when we preach them, we do not think that we can thereby possibly sanctifie the heart, corruption may be restrained for a while, but, that which must sanctifie the heart must be the love of God in Jesus Christ, As I remember. Fulgentius, compares the love of God in Christ in the heart of a beleever, to the fire that is within the furnace, and the love of God in his common bounty, to a few sparkes that fly out at a distance from the mouth of the furnace; take al the love of God that is in the creature suppose the Lord should give unto you the possession of al the world, and should make a thousand worlds and give thee possession of them al, this were but as a spark from the furnace; but the love of God in Christ is as the