Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

Quest. You will say, How is the Law a bondage unto those that are Godly, being the law of God?

Quest. You wil say, How is the Law a bondage unto those that are Godly, being the law of God?

Ans. It is a bondage not in it self, but in regard of our inability, for it requires of us now, considering what estate we are in, such things as we cannot do, and that is a bondage, to be put upon more than we are able to do, as the Israelites were by their taskmasters: but yet still God is righteous in this, because it is not more than God did at first enable us unto in our first Creation, but in regard of that estate that now we are in, it is a bondage, in that it puts upon us, what we cannot do, and that upon pain of eternal death too.

Ans. It is a bondage not in it self, but in regard of our inabil•ty, for it requires of us now, considering what estate we are in, such things as we cannot do, and that is a bondage, to be put upon more than we are able to do, as the Israelites were by their taskmasters: but yet stil God is righteous in this, because it is not more than God did at first inable us unto in our first Creation, but in regard of that estate that now we are in, it is a bondage, in that it puts upon us, what we cannot do, and that upon pain of eternal death too.

Thirdly, we are delivered from the binding over power (as I may so say) the power of binding over the soul to the justice of God upon every breach of the Law. Now the binding-over power, the power of binding them over to answer to Gods justice upon the breach of it, that believers are delivered from in Christ; as a man that is bound over to the assize and sessions to answer, afterwards when he comes to take out his bond, he thinks himself at much ease and at quiet, when the bond is taken out by which he was bound to answer; so Christ comes and takes out the bond by which believers were bound to answer to Gods justice for all their sins.