1659 JEREMIAH BURROUGHS. Christ Inviting Sinners to Rest in Him. Rare Puritan Work.

A very scarce work by one of the most enduringly popular puritans, Jeremiah Burroughs [1599-1646]. Never reprinted in full, the present work is Burroughs at his most tender. He expertly exposes the gruesome, self and world destroying nature of sin, and then uses the morbid penetrating spiritual diagnosis to detail and prescribe the expansive and breathtaking beauty of God's redemptive work in Christ.  Burroughs, Jeremiah. Christ Inviting Sinners to Come to Him for Rest. Wherein is Shewed, First. 1. The Burden of Sin. 2. The Burden of the Law. 3. The Burden of Legal Performances with the Misery of those that are Under them. 4. The Burdern of Corruption. 5. The Burden of Outward Affliction. Secondly, Christ Graciously Offers to them that Come to Him, Rest from all those Burdens. 1. What it is to come to Christ. 2. That Christ Requires nothing but to come to Him. 3. Several Rules to be Observed in Right Coming to Christ. 4. Means to Draw Souls to Christ. 5. That in Coming to Christ God wo