A30566:966
Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest
Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest by Jeremiah Burroughs.Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest by Jeremiah Burroughes.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1659
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
NOW there are divers consequences that flow from hence. As,
I. Hence we may see the difference between the condition of believers now, and that in Adam, and we may see that believers are in a better condition then Adam was Why? because the image of God in which Adam was made, it may be said to be natural, that is, that only comes from God the creator, from him making him a creature, and giving him the perfection that was suitable to the nature of a rational creature, there was all the holiness that Adam had. Al the holiness and righteousness that was in Adam, was but only that that was suitable unto a rational creature in such a condition, and when he had it, then he was to trade, as it were, with that stock himself, and to live by the stock that God gave him at first, only a general concourse of Gods providence there was, so long as he did continue to obey God, that Gods providence should go along with him, and uphold him in his estate, And this was the estate of Adam.
I. Hence we may see the difference between the condition of beleevers now, and that in Adam, and we may see that beleevers are in a better condition then Adam was Why? because the image of God in which Adam was made, it may be said to be natural, that is, that onely comes from God the creator, from him making him a creature, and giving him the perfection that was sutable to the nature of a rational creature, there was al the holiness that Adam had. Al the holiness and righteousness that was in Adam, was but only that that was suitable unto a rational creature in such a condition, and when he had it, then he was to trade, as it were, with that stock himselfe, and to live by the stock that God gave him at first, only a general concourse of Gods providence there was, so long as he did continue to obey God, that Gods providence should go along with him, and uphold him in his estate, And this was the estate of Adam.