Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

1. Then I shall endeavour to show what the yoke and burden of the Law is. And then what is the burdensome Condition of the Soul that seeks after Righteousness by Legal performances.

1. Then I shal endeavour to shew what the yoke and burden of the Law is. And then what is the burdensom Condition of the Soul that seeks after Righteousness by Legal performances.

In the first place, the Law requires of us such things that we are not able possibly to perform; it requires things of us that we cannot do; you will say that is a grievous burden indeed, to be put upon that that we cannot do: now the Law doth so only at the first, that you may not think it hard it doth not put you upon any thing that God did never enable you to do, for that you would say were hard, and how could God justly do it; but it puts you upon that which now you cannot do; but you have brought this [cannot] upon your selves; it would not have been any burden, to Adam, as God made man first in innocency, there the Law could have bin no burden: but now as we are fallen Consider what our Condition is now, and it is a grievous burden, for it puts us upon that which we cannot do, all the strength that we have should it be put forth to the performance of the Law, yet we could not do it; but we must not think that because we have lost our power, therefore Gods Law should not go on; the law hath its course whether we have power, or no power, because God gave it us, and we have lost it, this I take to be the meaning of that Scripture in Acts 15.10. Now therefore why tempt you God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers, nor we were able to bear; The law is such a yoke which neither we, nor our fathers were able to bear.

In the first place, the Law requires of us such things that we are not able possibly to performe; it requires things of us that we cannot do; you wil say that is a greivous burden indeed, to be put upon that that we cannot do: now the Law doth so onely at the first, that you may not think it hard it doth not put you upon any thing that God did never inable you to do, for that you would say were hard, and how could God justly do it; but it puts you upon that which now you cannot do; but you have brought this [cannot] upon your selves; it would not have been any burden, to Adam, as God made man first in innocency, there the Law could have bin no burden: but now as we are fallen Consider what our Condition is now, and it is a greivous burden, for it puts us upon that which we cannot do, al the strength that we have should it be put forth to the performance of the Law, yet we could not do it; but we must not think that because we have lost our power, therefore Gods Law should not goe on; the law hath its course whether we have power, or no power, because God gave it us, and we have lost it, this I take to be the meaning of that Scripture in