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Here we have a sweet invitation, backed with a gracious encouragement: Christ invites such as are weary of the burden of sin, of the slavery of Satan, of the yoke of the ceremonial law, to come unto him for rest and ease; and as an encouragement assures them, that upon their coming to him they shall find rest.
Learn, 1. That sin is the soul's laborious burden; Come unto me, all ye that labour. Labouring supposes a burden to be laboured under; this burden is sin's guilt.
2. That such as come to Christ for rest must be ladden sinners.
3. That ladden sinners not only may but ought to come to Christ for rest; they may come, because invited; they ought to come, because commanded.
4. That the laden sinner, upon his coming, shall find rest. Come, &c.
Note here, That to come unto Christ in the phrase of the New Testament is to believe in him, and to become one of his disciples. He that cometh unto me shall not hunger, he that believteh on me shall not thirst. Joh_6:35.