Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

Secondly, there is this evil also in the burden of Legal performances, that this is a means to cause hard thoughts of God, and if God go no further with them then this, that they perform Duties in a Legal way, this will occasion many hard thoughts of God and of his ways, and they may find that they have so, many times when their hearts are pinched with this burden, they have many hard thoughts of God, and hard thoughts of his Law, and hard thoughts of his ways, this is very grievous when the soul comes to find the commandments of God to be grievous and so to murmur and repine against God as many do that are in trouble of conscience, they go on in Duties but because they get no peace, nor comfort, nor Mastery over their corruptions, they begin to repine and murmur at God, say they: I have done thus and thus, and I have performed Duties and nothing comes of them, and there upon they begin to leave and hate them.

Secondly, there is this evil also in the burden of Legal performances, that this is a means to cause hard thoughts of God, and if God go no further with them then this, that they perform Duties in a Legal way, this wil occasion many hard thoughts of God and of his waies, and they may find that they have so, many times when their hearts are pinched with this burden, they have many hard thoughts of God, and hard thougths of his Law, and hard thoughts of his waies, this is very greivous when the soul comes to find the commandements of God to be grievous and so to murmure and repine against God as many do that are in trouble of conscience, they go on in Duties but because they get no peace, nor comfort, nor Mastery over their corruptions, they begin to repine and murmure at God, say they: I have done thus and thus, and I have performed Duties and nothing comes of them, and there upon they begin to leave and hate them.