Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

12. Those that are thus Legal, their consciences put them upon performances of Duties, but their Humiliation and trouble for not doing of what they ought to do, doth hinder them from doing what God requires, and this is a sad condition, that when I have not done my Duty, and am troubled for not doing my Duty, that doth hinder me from doing my Duty, whereas those that have Evangelical Humiliation, it makes them more fit to do duty, the other it makes them more unfit, their hearts are more sullen, fretful, and untoward, and this is a ⟨p. 64⟩sad condition, that not only they fail in other Duties, but when they are troubled for this they fail mo•e▪ first they fail of their Duties, and their hearts are hardened a great while, and then they Complain, that their Hearts are hardened and that they cannot be Humbled for their sin, after this complaint they begin to be troubled for their sin, and then on the other side when they are troubled after such away as they grow sullen and discontented, vexing and fretting of themselves, and by this they come to be hindered as much in the performance of their Duty as by the hardness of their hearts before; some are hindered by their hardness of heart from performing of Duty, and others by their humility: now this is a very great burden, you may some of you find it in your own experience, that the trouble of your Heart hath rather hindered you then furthered you in Duty, as in Exodus when Moses came to the Children of Israel, the text saith they did not hearken unto him, because of the anguish of their hearts, so there is many people that have such Legal trouble in their Hearts and that for their sins, as it doth hinder them from hearkening unto the blessed sound of the Gospel, it makes them more unfit to hearken to the invitation of Christ to come unto him, yea such kind of trouble they have for their sin that makes them as it were reason away the blessed comfort in the Gospel to their Soul.