Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

First it is a soul-burden, other burdens are rather bodily, it is easier for a man to bear a burden upon his shoulders, then to bear a burden upon his conscience, their it lies with torment, and the burden of corruption it is a burden upon our very consciences. Many heretofore have said that people must be content to bear, though things were required of them that ought not to be, if they went under them as a burden they thought they were well enough; many things that were in the worship of God, false worship, they would say, for their parts they could be content they were otherwise, & they went under them as a burden, & they thought that was enough. It is true, if it was only a burden of our estates that it was only in outward things it was something, but when it comes to the burden upon our consciences, we must learn to distinguish between the burden upon our shoulders, and between the ⟨p. 82⟩burden upon our consciences, and so many Christians they could bear burdens upon their shoulders aswell as others, but they could not bear any burdens upon their Consciences.

First it is a soul-burden, other burdens are rather bodily, it is easier for a man to beare a burden upon his shoulders, then to beare a burden upon his conscience, their it lies with torment, and the burden of corruption it is a burden upon our very consciences. Many heretofore have said that people must be content to beare, though things were required of them that ought not to be, if they went under them as a burden they thought they were wel enough; many things that were in the worship of God, false worship, they would say, for their parts they could be content they were otherwise, & they went under them as a burden, & they thought that was enough. It is true, if it was only a burden of our estates that it was only in outward things it was somthing, but when it comes to the burden upon our consciences, we must learn to distinguish between the burden upon our shoulders, and between the