Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

The Third burden of Corruption.

Thirdly, The remaining part of Corruption in the hearts of the godly, it carries with it a burden of fear, fear you know is a great burden as well as grief and shame though the evil be not so great upon them, yet if their be an evil apprehended to come upon them, it is a great burden to them, as those that dare not go out of doors in the night because of fear, or dare not be in the dark because of fear, when they are delivered from their fears, do they not account that it was a great burden, now the godly they have a great deal of fear upon their hearts, and the ⟨p. 78⟩truth is those that are godly they fear more what their own evil hearts should bring upon them, then what all the devils in hell and all the creatures in the world can bring upon them, and that is a good fear, but yet it makes them walk heavily: others fear, sometimes they fear men, fear those that will come and take away their estates and undo them, fear their enemies or fear the devil, but one that is godly he fears more his own heart, the evil that may come to his soul by that, then all the hurt that all the devils in hell can do to him, for they cannot afflict more then the body, I but this brings an evil upon the soul, it breaks their communion between them and God, and therefore they are afraid of sin before it comes, they have experience of their hearts what evil it hath done to them, and so are afraid of miscarrying, and afraid of the evil consequences of their sin, they do not know what mischief their sin might possibly bring upon them, and so they go under this burden of fear along time together, even those that are truly godly.

Thirdly, The remaining part of Corruption in the hearts of the godly, it carries with it a burden of feare, fear you know is a great burden as wel as greif and shame though the evil be not so great upon them, yet if their be an evil apprehended to come upon them, it is a great burden to them, as those that dare not go out of dores in the night because of feare, or dare not be in the dark because of fear, when they are delivered from their feares, do they not account that it was a great burden, now the godly they have a great deal of fear upon their hearts, and the