Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

Tenthly, Christ is sanctification, because in him all the ordinances are effectual, the ordinances are effectual only in Christ, Christ gave his ordinances unto his Church at first, and then they come to be effectual through him, It is not what you come to hear in the word, but how much of Christ you have in the word, you come to the sacrament, it is not what you partake of there, but what of Christ you get there, it is not what you partake of there, but what of Christ you get there, it is Christ in the word, sacrament, and prayer, that is the efficacy of all the ordinances, the ordinances are but all as the vehiculum Christi, the conveyance of Christ unto the soul. And therefore we should when we come to any ordinance think with our selves, what have we of Christ, what have we of Christ here? have we met with any thing of Christ here? In the word, prayer, sacraments, hath my heart ⟨p. 325⟩been drawn nearer to Christ in them? For certain it is, that it is Christ, that is the virtue and kernel of all the ordinances. Hence it is that those that are acquainted with Christ, and have been brought to him, they come to profit more in one month now by the ordinances, then they did in all their lives. Before the ordinances were as empty things, and lifeless things to you, but in Christ they come now to be made effectual.

Tenthly, Christ is sanctification, because in him al the ordinances are effectual, the ordinances are effectual only in Christ, Christ gave his ordinances unto his Church at first, and then they come to be effectual through him, It is not what you come to heare in the word, but how much of Christ you have in the word, you come to the sacrament, it is not what you partake of there, but what of Christ you get there, it is not what you partake of there, but what of Christ you get there, it is Christ in the word, sacrament, and prayer, that is the efficacy of al the ordinances, the ordinances are but al as the vehiculum Christi, the conveyance of Christ unto the soul. And therefore we should when we come to any ordinance think with our selves, what have we of Christ, what have we of Christ here? have we met with any thing of Christ here? In the word, prayer, sacraments, hath my heart ⟨p. 325⟩been drawn neerer to Christ in them? For certain it is, that it is Christ, that is the virtue and kernel of al the ordinances. Hence it is that those that are acquainted with Christ, and have been brought to him, they come to profit more in one month now by the ordinances, then they did in al their lives. Before the ordinances were as empty things, and liveless things to you, but in Christ they come now to be made effectual.