Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

The Seventh Property of the Burden of Corruption.

Seventhly, This Burden is such a Burden, as makes those that are godly to be burdensome to themselves, yea even to be weary of their lives many times, Why? For their Corruption in them is a great deal more grievous then Death would be to them. We use to express a thing that is very grievous to us, and say it is death to us, those that are godly can say so of their sin, and that is one Reason that Paul gave that Name to his sin, a Body of Death, Oh! Wretched Man that I am who shall deliver me from this Body of Death, Why? because the remaining Corruption that then was in his Heart was as Death to him, so it is with the Saints, the Corruption that remains in their hearts it is Death to them, and they can appeal unto God, and speak thus in his presence. The bitterness of death would not be so much to me a thousand parts as this Corruption that is in my heart, Oh! this Corruption that is in my heart, that overcomes me after so many resolutions, so many Prayers, so many Sacraments, so many engagements, it is that which makes me weary of my life, as Rebekah said, if Jacob should marry a Wife of the Daughters of Heth, it would make her weary of her Life; so saith the godly, this remaining Corruption in my Heart, makes me weary of my Life, what shall I do that carry such a Body of Death about me so as I do. There are many Men and Women that in a discontented mood, say, they are weary of their lives, but this is in a discontented mood; but when could you say so in respect of your Hearts, when did you say, I looked into my Heart, and I saw a great deal of sin, Corruption, worldliness, Pride, Passion, and the like, and this is that which makes me weary of my Life. The truth is, the great thing that makes the people of God to be willing to die is this, because they know when they ⟨p. 86⟩die they shall be delivered from this Burden, and therefore when Death comes they entertain it willingly, because they know they shall sin against God no more. There is many of you, when you have lived a long time in sickness, and poverty, and are in great straits many ways, you think if Death should come to me I could be willing to die, because then I should suffer no such things as now I do, I but that is no argument of Grace, but this is an argument of Grace, that because of the great burden of Corruption that thou carryest about in thy Soul, therefore thou wouldst be willing to die.