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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44458	Blessed rest for the burthened sinner. Or the only center of the soul Wherein is discovered. 1. Who he is that invites and calls sinners to this rest. 2. The encouragements to come unto him for rest. 3. Many obstructions and impediments which keep back sinners. With their unreasonableness answered. 4. The rest that every one shall have that comes unto Christ. Delivered in some sermons at first, yet since some addition and enlargement has been made to them. By John Hopwood preacher of the Gospel.	Hopwood, John, preacher of the Gospel.	1676 (1676)	Wing H2761A; ESTC R216474	156,207	450

For I am the least of the Apostles I am not meet to be called an Apostle because I persecuted the Church of God The Sense of his own imperfections and the remembrance of former Sins make him think better of another than himself Phil. 2.3 But in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than himself 6ly and lastly The Spirit hath wrought a holy Gospel Zeal in the hearts of those who are come unto Christ we read of an Ignorant and Blind Zeal Ro. 10.2 For I bare them Record that they have a Zeal of God but not according to knowledge This Zeal which is a Fruit of the Spirit is 1. A holy Zeal the heart burns with the Fire of Zeal against Sin and Wickedness such a Zeal was in Phin●as when he Slew the Israelitish Man and the Midianitish Woman for their abominable Sin in the sight of God Numb 25.6 7 8. And David being a man possessed with this holy Zeal was troubled for the wicked's forgetfulness of the Law of God Psal 119.139 My Zeal hath consumed me because mine Enemys have forgotten thy words And it is a holy Zeal in that it is fervent for holiness and for godliness for Christ hath redeemed such Tit. 2.14 Who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all Iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar People Zealous of good Works I say this Zeal being holy is for the depression of Sin because it is contrary to holyness and for the promotion of holyness because the Soul delights in it and is a fervent Lover of it 2. It is a Zeal for God his Glory and his Name this true Zealot is tender of the Name and Honour of God this the Lord testifys concerning Phineas Numb 25.11 And the Lord spake unto Moses saying Phineas the Son of Eleazar the Son of Aaron the Priest hath turned away my wrath from the Children of Israel whilst he was Zealous for my sake among them that I consumed not the Children of Israel in my Jealousy So Elijah was Zealous for the Lord 1 King 19.10 And he said I have been very jealous for the Lord God of Hosts The Septuagint renders it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I have burned with vehement Zeale for the Lord. 2. For his worship and service as in that forequoted vers 1 Kings 19.10 Zelando Zelavi hoc est vehementissimo arsi zelo pro Domino For the Children of Israel have forsaken thy Covenant thrown down thine Altars and slain thy Prophets with the Sword Thus it was Prophesied of Christ Isa 69.9 and applyed to him Jo. 2.17 For the Zeale of thine house hath eaten me up i. e. A Zeal for the true worship and service of God so as he hath instituted and commanded in his word 3. This Zeale leads the Soul to be Zealous for Christ O how Zealous were the Apostles and all the faithful Servants of Christ when they broke through all difficultys to exalt Christ and keep Faithful to him All the Waters of affliction could not quench this Zeal neither could the Scorching Flames consume it the threats and edicts of Enemys could not at all cool the heat of this Zeal but rather added Fuel to the Fire and made it burn more vehemently What made Paul so resolute when he heard what was prophecied concerning him if he went up to Jerusalem Act. 21.11 12 13. Why it was his Zeal made him so couragious and answer like a Faithful and bold Champion of Christ Jesus I am ready not only to be bound but to dye at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus 4ly It is a Zeal according to knowledge There is much blind and ignorant Zeal abroad in the World such as was among the Jews Rom. 10.2 the Apostle Paul was once a blind Zealot Phil. 3.6 Concerning Zeal Persecuting the Church how many such Zealots are there among the Papists nay how many have we here at home who are zealous for either their own invention or else the traditions of our Fore-fathers but this Zeal is not an ignorant one but flows from Divine illumination and is accompanied with a saving knowledge of the revealed will of God and of those things which concern the Lord Jesus which makes the Soul more zealous for them 5ly and lastly It is a Zeal for spiritual things and gifts 1 Cor. 4.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Follow after Love and zealously affect spiritual things as the words may be read and vers 39. Therefore Brethren be ye zealous that ye may Prophesie There is a zeal which pretends to be for spiritual things but Jehu like is ready for carnal and base things spiritual and divine things are most sutable to be the objects of this Spiritual and Divine Zeal Thus have I finished the use of Examination by which you may certainly know whether you are come to Christ or no. There is still a use of Exhortation that remains under this point of Doctrine that It is the indispensable duty of all labouring and heavy laden Sinners who look for rest and Salvation to come unto the Lord Jesus that they may obtain it And if it is a duty as hath been proved then let me exhort all to come for if you do neglect or refuse to come you do neglect your dutys and slight your Souls and refuse the only means of eternal Salvation But here you may be ready to make this question how must I come unto the Lord Jesus that I may obtain rest and salvation In answering of this question I shall take in the third Doctrine because I have already exceeded my first intentions shall manage the fourth by way of motive and incouragement because I observe poor sinners are generally very unwilling to come to Christ they had rather weary themselves and labour under their burthens of sin till they are in the end crushed down with the intolerable ponderosity of eternal vengeance 1. Then if thou wouldst come unto Christ aright pray for the holy Spirit that he may inable thee to come to Christ in that way which will certainly end in rest and Salvation for as I have before declared it is the Spirit that illuminates the understanding in all those things which are necessary to Salvation it is that convinceth the conscience of those dutys which absolutely concern the Soul he inclines the will to comply readily with the whole known and reveal'd will of God he sanctifys the affections and works grace in the Soul all these are his works alone 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 efficiently let the Instrument be what it will he is not oblieged to any means or method yet the means as Instruments depend wholly upon his Energy and Co-operation therefore if thou wouldst come to Christ aright pray heartily and seek fervently for the holy Spirit without whose conduct thou canst never come to Christ effectually and so as to be eased of thy Burthens 2ly When thou hast sought for the Spirit and dost feel him working upon thy Soul

then come unto Christ as labouring under the intollerable Burthen of sin for sin is a heavy burthen although multitudes in the world count it light as may be seen by their chearful countenances merry hearts jovial lives and running and drawing under this burthen into Eternity being very little concerned for the weight of it Holy David was sensible of the ponderosity of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Onus grave when he cried out Psal 38.4 Mine iniquities are gone over my head as agrievous they are too heavy for me The pressure of sin lay so hard upon poor David that it made his back bend his heart pant his tongue roar and his groanings to multiply as may be seen in that 38. Psal at large So Psal 40.12 Innumerable evils have compassed me about mine Iniquities have taken hold of me so that I am not able to look up they are more than the hairs of my head therefore my heart forsaketh me He was so bowed down under this burthen that he could not elevate himself nay it made his very heart forsake him when he considered the gravity and innumerable number of them but what did David do in this case why he goes to God through Christ for ease from this great and heavy burthen Psal 25.11 For thy Name sake O Lord pardon mine Iniquity for it is great great both for weight and number therefore for thy Names sake magnify thy grace and what was the Issue see Psal 32.5 I said I will confess my transgressions to the Lord and thou forgavest the Iniquity of my Sin He went with this Burthen to the Lord and found Mercy and Pardon from him so must thou do Go to Christ under the sense of the weightiness of your sins and beg him according to his promise to ease thee of thy burthen which otherwise will sink thee down into eternal misery for it weighed Angels out of Glory and now confines them under Chains of darkness therefore come unto Christ for he will not refuse thee because of the greatness of thy burthen but rather imbrace thee for the Exaltation of his free grace 3ly Come labouring under a deep sense of the immense and intollerable weight of the wrath of God for who can endure if he be inraged or what can stand and oppose if God be the Antagonist Job 9.34 by nature we are all under this burthen Eph. 2.3 And were by Nature Children of wrath even as others i. e. by nature we are subject and liable to Divine vengeance because the imputation of the guilt of Adams transgression abides upon us and the corruption of Nature is derived unto us The extream weightiness of this wrath makes damned Angels and wicked Spirits roar lament and gnash their teeth It is more tollerable * Poets Fiction Atlas-like to bear the Heavens upon our shoulders or to lye under Rocks Mountains thousands of years then to abide under this wrath but a day nay an hour nay a minute for it burns yet never utterly consumes it presseth heavy without mitigation now there is no releasement from the obnoxiousness to this wrath but from a deep sense of the grievousness of it by applying our selves speedily to the Lord Jesus for it is he alone that can deliver from the wrath that is to come 1 Thes 1.10 come unto Christ with a sense of it upon thy heart whilst thou art here that thou maist not see the intollerableness of it hereafter 4ly Come to Christ as labouring under and being heavy laden with the curse of the Law and the Empire of death I mean by the Empire of death not only our obnoxiousness to the stroke of death upon our bodys but the sting of death and the eternity of it in regard of our Souls Death has raigned by reason of sin Rom. 5. over the bodys of all two or three excepted and over the Souls of most even from Adam to Moses and from Moses untill Christ and from Christ even to our days Death is a universal Monarch his Empire is from East to West and from North to South There is no escaping his fatal blow Only believers then take their flight from a dead Corps to Christ who is their life from a muddy Tabernacle to a glorious city Rev. 21.22.23 Col. 3.3 Heb. 12.28 Rom. 2.15 from a tottering Cottage to a firm Kingdom from a dark and mortal state to a splendent and immortal glory for although the body dyes yet the life of the Soul is secure as Being hid with Christ in God Col. 3.4 Believers can never dye take it in a Spiritual sence so long as God and Christ live but yet I say the way to be freed from the eternal Bondage of this deadly Monarch is to come unto Christ for Ease from this burthen also Moreover the burden of the curse of the Law must be taken away or else the former Emperor will keep his dominion Gal. 3.10 As many as are of the works of the Law are under the curse for it is written cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law to do them But seeing we have not continued in all things to do them and therefore are under the curse what must we do now but go unto Christ who was made a Curse for us Gal. 3.13 Christ hath redeemed us from the Curse of the Law being made a Curse for us Now the Judge when he gives forth pardon to the Malefactor expects that he should be sensible of the greatness of his guilt and also of his desert the sentence of Condemnation having passed upon him so Christ expects a sensible owning the Curse and Misery we are under that his grace may be magnified in our relief succour and Salvation 5thly Come unto Christ as labouring under the cruel tyrany of Satan for Satan is the Prince of the Powers of the Air Magnitudo mali in quatuor consistit quae sunt peccati gravita quae Dei immensum intollerabile pondus Mortis imperium Tyrannis Diaboli quae tollere abolere placare vincere nemo potuit nisi Deus Bucan and he rules in and over the children of disobedience and there is none that can deliver from this tyranny but Christ for as one reasoning why it behoved Christ the Redeemer to be God said it was for two causes 1. Ob magnitudinem mali For the greatness of the Evil by which mankind was pressed down 2. Ob magnitudinem Boni For the magnitude of the good which could be restored by no man nor Angel unto mankind but only by him who is God now the greatness of the Evil which Christ underwent and in fine overcame consisted in bareing the weight of Sin the intollerable burden of Gods wrath and in conquering Death and the tiranny of Satan which none could or was able to do but he that was God-man by his own mighty Power so that seeing Christ hath done these things for all those that