Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

2, And then the stirring of corruption is sudden, many times a man or woman that is gracious and godly, that finds their heart in some good temper and working for God, suddenly their corruptions will be stirring in them unexpectedly, which is extreme grief and damp to their spirits, and causeth many times exceeding much trouble to them suddenly, that no body can understand the cause of it but themselves.

2, And then the stirring of corruption is sudden, many times a man or woman that is gracious and godly, that finds their heart in some good temper and working for God, suddenly their corruptions wil be stirring in them unexpectedly, which is extream greife and damp to their spirits, and causeth many times exceeding much trouble to them suddenly, that no body can understand the cause of it but themselves.

3. And then the stirring of Corruption is violent, the stirring of Corruption in the hearts of the Saints are many times extreme violent and outrageous, the devil stirs up their Corruption, and indeed the corruptions themselves are as it were devils in them, that do as the devil that was ⟨p. 94⟩ready to be cast out of him that was possessed, he causeth him to foam at the mouth, so there is extreme violence of corruption in the hearts of the Saints. It was a Lamentable condition of the poor Child that was possessed in the Gospel, when the father came to Christ for help, because when the evil spirit came it cast him into the fire and into the water. So corruption is so violent in the hearts of the godly, that it is ready to cast them into the fire and into the water, to do those things that are against their own inclination, against their prayers, against their resolutions, against their vows, against their covenants, though they see such a thing to be evil, are convinced of it, though they find a strong inclination against the evil, though they have been at prayer to God to help them against it, though they resolve with the strongest resolutions against it, yea though they vow and Covenant yea they come to the sacrament and set to their seal, so violent is their corruption that it carries and hurries them on in ways of evil notwithstanding.