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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.
But now the holiness and righteousness that the saints have, comes from another principle, it comes not from God as creator merely, but from God through a mediator, from God through his son, it comes through Christ and it is a partaking of the spirit of Christ, and of the father, and the holy Ghost in Christ. We do not read of such a kind of work in Adam, only the text faith, the Lord made him according to his own Image, but that he should have his holiness through union of the second person in trinity, and through the spirit that is sent into him by the father and the son, and to be made a temple of the holy Ghost we read not. He had the principle of holiness to be in himself, but we have our principle of holiness in Christ still, we are not trusted with our holiness though holiness be conveyed to believers, yet they are not be trusted with the principle of their holiness, but it is in Christ still. But Adam was not so, Adam so long as he stood God would go on with a concourse of his providence with him, but God never made such a covenant with Adam, that he should have a principle of holiness laid up in his son and that by faith he should fetch out this principle of Holiness.
But now the holiness and righteousness that the saints have, comes from another principle, it comes not from God as creator meerly, but from God through a mediator, from God through his son, it comes through Christ and it is a partaking of the spirit of Christ, and of the father, and the holy Ghost in Christ. We do not read of such a kind of work in Adam, only the text faith, the Lord made him according to his own Image, but that he should have his holiness through union of the second person in trinity, and through the spirit that is sent into him by the father and the son, and to be made a temple of the holy Ghost we read not. He had the principle of holiness to be in himself, but we have our principle of holiness in Christ stil, we are not trusted with our holiness though holiness be conveyed to beleevers, yet they are not be trusted with the principle of their holiness, but it is in Christ stil. But Adam was not so, Adam so long as he stood God would go on with a concourse of his providence with him, but God never made such a covenant with Adam, that he should have a principle of holiness laid up in his son and that by faith he should fetch out this principle of Holiness.