Divers practical cases of conscience satisfactorily resolved ... to which are added some counsels…

Answ. 1. Burden man! why, it is thy Happiness: If Holiness and pleasing God be a burden, Health is a burden; Heaven and Happiness are burdens.

Answ. 2. This is no other burden then what God himself hath bound upon your consciences; Rom. 9. 20. Who art thou, O man, that repliest against God! Have I put upon you a devised and unnecessary strictness? or bound that burden upon you which I will not touch with one of my fingers? 1 Cor. 9. 8. Say I this as a man, or saith not the Law the same also? I pray you whose word is this? Be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long, Prov. 23. 17. Do all to the glory of God, 1 Cor. 10. 31. Exercise thy self unto godliness, 1 Tim. 4. 7. What have I pressed but what the Saints have practiced? Phil. 3. 13, 14. One thing I do, I press towards the mark, Psal. 27. 4. One thing have I desired of the Lord, that I will seek after. And Psal. 119. 38. Thy servant that is devoted to thy fear. Gen. 5. 22. Enoch walked with God three hundred years. What is this but what the Scripture hath foretold shall be? They shall walk up and down in the Name of the Lord, Zech. 10. 12. There shall be upon the Bells of the Horses, and every Pet in Jerusalem Holiness to the Lord,