Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

and if it doth not understand these things, it is in so much the worse condition; though perhaps it be not sensible of such a burden through ignorance, as most people spend off all their days and through ignorance do not come to be sensible of it; but when the Soul comes to understand what terms there are between God and it, and how it must stand before God, that it must either stand by virtue of a Covenant of Works, or a Covenant of Grace, and that all naturally are under a Covenant of Works; and so long as I am in my natural Condition, I am under such a Law that accepts of no endeavours, this must needs be a great burden unto the Soul and make it to see an absolute necessity of going to Christ for ease and Rest.

and if it doth not understand these things, it is in so much the worse condition; though perhaps it be not sensible of such a burden through ignorance, as most people spend off al their daies and through ignorance do not come to be sensible of it; but when the Soul comes to understand what tearms there are between God and it, and how it must stand before God, that it must either stand by vertue of a Covenant of Works, or a Covenant of Grace, and that al naturally are under a Covenant of Works; and so long as I am in my natural Condition, I am under such a Law that accepts of no endeavors, this must needs be a great burden unto the Soul and make it to see an absolute necessity of going to Christ for ease and Rest.

Fourthly, the burden of the law is exceeding great in this respect. That upon any one breach of the law, the soul comes to be broken so as to lose ability to be able to keep any part of the Law for ever; I said there is this in the Law more then in the Gospel; that upon any one breach of the Law in the Covenant of works, the soul comes to be so broken, as to loose all the abilities of ever keeping any part of the Law again; as thus, I showed you in Adam. Adam was the Head of the first Covenant of works, of the Law; now Adam he breaks it in one particular, failed in one Particular of what God required of him, and in breaking of it in that one thing, he, and all his posterity was so broken that they lost all their abilities of keeping of the Law for ever, except God come and create any ability, they have lost what ability was given at first in their Creation; so then this is a very great mystery, that one by doing a thing that is evil should weaken the contrary habit; that by doing a thing that is evil we should