*_Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you._ How short and simple and certain a way to peace and comfort, from the misery and burthen of sin! What becomes now of your length of time, and exercise, your rules and methods, and round-about ways, to be delivered from the power of sin, and find the redeeming power, and virtue of Christ? Will you say, that turning to Christ in faith was _once_ indeed the way for _Jews_ and Heathens to enter into life, and be delivered from the power of their sins, but that all this happiness was at an end, as soon as _Pontius Pilate_ had nailed this good Redeemer to the cross, and so broke off all _immediate_ union and communion between faith and Christ? *What a folly would it be to suppose that Christ, after his having finished his great work, overcome death, ascended into heaven, with all power in heaven and on earth, was become less a Saviour, and gave less certain and immediate helps to those that by faith turn to him now, than when he was cloathed with the infirmity of our flesh and blood upon earth? Has he less power after he has conquered, than whilst he was only resisting and fighting with our enemies? Or has he less good will to assist his church, his own body, now he is in heaven, than he had to assist Publicans, Sinners and Heathens, before he was glorified? And yet this must be the case, if our _simply turning_ to him in faith, is not as sure a way of obtaining immediate assistance from him now, as when he was upon earth. _Theogenes._ You seem, Sir, to me, to have stepped aside from the point, which was not, whether my giving myself up to Christ in faith, would not do me as much good, as it did to them, who turned to him when he was upon earth? But whether my turning in faith and desire, to _patience_, _meekness_, _humility_, and _resignation_ to God, would do all that as fully for me now, as faith in Christ did for those who became his disciples? _Theophilus._ I have stuck closely, my friend, to the point before us. Let it be supposed, that I had given you a form of prayer in these words, _O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world_, or, _O thou bread that comest down from heaven_, or, _Thou that art the resurrection, and the life_, the _light_ and _peace_ of all holy souls, help me to a living faith in thee. Would you say, that this was not a prayer of faith in, and to Christ, because it did not call him _Jesus_, or the _Son of God_? Answer me plainly. _Theogenes._ What can I answer you, but that this is a true prayer to Jesus, the Son of the living God? For who else but he, was the _Lamb_ of God, and the _bread_ that came down.