Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

6. From hence follows that those that are merely legal in their performances, they do their duty with much straitness of spirit, they have no enlargement of heart usually, very rarely in any thing they do, but they do it (if they do do it) in a dull manner, & a dead way, merely the work done and no more, their spirits are exceedingly strait, pray they must, so much time they spend in prayer, but when they are risen from prayer they find their harts are as strait as ever, I do not say but a godly man or woman may be so at sometimes, but when duties are performed in a legal way, this is constantly so, and Oh what a burden is this to a soul, to think that I can never go into the presence of God but I have still a dead, straight heart, others have enlarged hearts, but I do the duty and nothing comes ⟨p. 59⟩of it, I feel my heart altogether straitened in the duty and so I go on in the rounds, but still am straitened, dead, and dull in the performance of the duty.

6. From hence follows that those that are meerely legal in their performances, they do their duty with much straitness of spirit, they have no inlargment of heart usually, very rarely in any thing they do, but they do it (if they do do it) in a dul manner, & a dead way, meerly the work done and no more, their spirits are excedingly strait, pray they must, so much time they spend in prayer, but when they are risen from prayer they find their harts are as strait as ever, I do not say but a godly man or woman may be so at sometimes, but when duties are performed in a legal way, this is constantly so, and Oh what a burden is this to a soul, to think that I can never go into the presence of God but I have stil a dead, straight heart, others have enlarged hearts, but I do the duty and nothing comes