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 would have us have Respect to Our Selves. 6. That there is no Rest for Souls out of Christ; and the Reasons therefore; with some Conclusions from it. Thirdly, there is Shewed. 1. The Rest Believers have from Sin. 2. The Deliverance from the Law by Christ is 1. Privatively, 2. Pasitively. 3. The Rest Believers have from the Burden of the Law by Coming to Christ. 4. How Christ gives Rest from the Burden of Legal Performances. 5. How Christ gives Rest from the Burden of Corruption; wherein is Shewed how Sanctification and Holiness comes from Christ Only. And Encouragements to come to Christ for Holiness. 6. How Christ gives Rest from Outward Afflictions. 7. Some Directions how to get Rest from Christ in Spiritual Desertions. London. Printed by Peter Cole; Printer and Book-seller, and are to be Sold at the Sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhill, near the Royall Exchange. 1659. 394pp.

Very nicely preserved in a modern, but expertly done half leather binding utilizing 18th century marbled papers, etc., The block itself is complete and generally clean with toning; chipped at title and prelims and rears, especially at first leaf or the table of contents, which has chipping losses.

Contains period inscriptions of early American, Joseph Woodruff [1691] and David Ogden [1751]. On the final leaf of text is a fascinating inscription appearing to bear a Native American person or Location, Makingapa followed by David Ogden [again]. It is possible this second David Ogden is the son, the same who was captured by the Iroquois Indians during the American Revolution. It appears to read "I take for to Makingapa of ******* for you. David Ogden his Book."