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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.
I will show you the difference between the state of Adam and a believer, by this similitude; a father puts a stock into his sons hand, but so, as he tells him, here is your portion, I will give you your portion, go and trade with it aswell as you can, but you are never like to have any further from me, but only what you get by this stock: This was the state of Adam, God gave Adam a stock of holiness, a stock of righteousness at First, and bid Adam trade with it and that that he should have to live upon should be that that he got by that stock, and that's all. But now it is true, we have all lost that stock, and turned bankrupt, now God is pleased to set up some of mankind again, there are others that must perish eternally, and be cast into prison, and there rot in prison ⟨p. 329⟩eternally, but to some God is pleased to give another stock, yet so, that he will not trust them with it wholly, but thus, he gives them Grace, and bids them go and trade with it, but so as he gives them it by little and little, and reserves the main stock in his Sons hand, and saith, go and trade with this, and as you want come to Christ, if you have any losses in your Trade come to my Son, and you shall have it made up again, you must give account to my Son every day. And now one that is set up and hath a little stock, but so that he must give account to his Father every day, and then he being faithful though he have losses he will make up his loss, and such a course is taken as he shall never break again, for he shall have a continual supply in his Fathers hands, or unkles hands, or friends hand, and this is the case of believers, though it is true, they are not made so perfectly holy as Adam was; we have not so great a stock as Adam, but our stock is better, for together with our stock of holiness we have a supply from Jesus Christ, and that we have shall be taken care of by him, that we shall not loose what we have, and if there be the least impairing of what we have, he will make it up again. So that our holiness comes now from another stock, is upheld by another principle then then ever Adams was, and this is the Reason why the Saints never fall as Adam did, because the holiness that they have can never decay, they can never turn bankrupt so as Adam did, but they have the principle from Christ, the water of life that shall flow into their hearts from Christ eternally.
I wil show you the difference between the state of Adam and a beleever, by this similitude; a father puts a stock into his sons hand, but so, as he tels him, here is your portion, I wil give you your portion, go and trade with it aswel as you can, but you are never like to have any further from me, but only what you get by this stock: This was the state of Adam, God gave Adam a stock of holiness, a stock of righteousness at First, and bid Adam trade with it and that that he should have to live upon should be that that he got by that stock, and thats al. But now it is true, we have al lost that stock, and turned banckrupt, now God is pleased to set up some of mankind again, there are others that must perish eternally, and be cast into prison, and there rot in prison