Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

The first Burden of Sin.

First, Those notions, or truths that before lay floating as it were in the understanding; Those truths of God, and apprehensions of the evil of Sin that lay before as it were aloft in the understanding of a man; now the Lord causes them to sink down within the heart, And doth press the evil of Sin upon the Soul, making the soul now, not only to apprehend, but to be sensible of Sin, of the evil of it, in the reality of it; it feels I say, those truths that were but hovering in the understanding before, now to settle upon the heart, and to press the heart with the real apprehension of sin; saith the Soul, I heard talking of it before, and I could speak of it before; but now I feel it; now saith the soul, those things that were as notions before are the greatest realities that are in the world; the Lord presseth them down upon the heart so as they are heavy upon the Soul, so heavy as to be crushed as it were under them; now all those vain reasonings, all those vain hopes, those shiftings that before the Soul had for to quiet it self, they are now quite crushed under the real apprehensions of sin. If there should be a Mill-stone upon the ground, and a few light things put on the top of it, and an other Mill-stone should be let fall upon them, it would even grind them to powder; so before there were vain Hopes, and vain reasonings in the heart. But when God causeth those truths and the realities of them to press upon the heart, it crusheth all those vain Hopes, and vain reasonings to nothing.

First, Those notions, or truths that before lay floating as it were in the understanding; Those truths of God, and apprehensions of the evil of Sin that lay before as it were aloft in the understanding of a man; now the Lord causes them to sink down within the heart, And doth press the evil of Sin upon the Soul, making the soul now, not only to apprehend, but to be sensible of Sin, of the evil of it, in the reallity of it; it feels I say, those truths that were but hovering in the understanding before, now to settle upon the heart, and to press the heart with the real apprehension of sin; saith the Soul, I heard talking of it before, and I could speak of it before; but now I feel it; now saith the soul, those things that were as notions before are the greatest realities that are in the world; the Lord presseth them down upon the heart so as they are heavy upon the Soul, so heavy as to be crushed as it were under them; now al those vain reasonings, al those vain hopes, those shiftings that before the Soul had for to quiet it self, they are now quite crushed under the real apprehensions of sin. If there should be a Mill-stone upon the ground, and a few light things put on the top of it, and an other Mill-stone should be let fal upon them, it would even grind them to pouder; so before there were vain Hopes, and vain reasonings in the heart. But when God causeth those truths and the realities of them to press upon the heart, it crusheth al those vain Hopes, and vain reasonings to nothing.