Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

This is the difference between legal performances, and evangelical, those that are in Christ, when Christ calls them to duty, you must go into the presence of your father and of the father of your blessed redeemer, you must go to duty in him. Come, go to prayer saith Conscience to one, they cannot but go indeed, but when they go to prayer their heart is struck with fear, terror, and discouragement in prayer: but Conscience saith to one that is a believer, come, you must go to prayer, what is that? but come, you must go before your father and enjoy communion with your father, the father of your redeemer calls you to have communion with him, & ⟨p. 265⟩how doth your heart spring to come into the presence of such a father! So that Christ renders them lovely to his father, and so delivers them from the burden that they are under in legal performances.

This is the difference between legal performances, and evangelical, those that are in Christ, when Christ calls them to duty, you must go into the presence of your father and of the father of your blessed redeemer, you must go to duty in him. Come, go to prayer saith Conscience to one, they cannot but go indeed, but when they go to prayer their heart is struck with feare, terror, and discouragement in prayer: but Conscience saith to one that is a beleever, come, you must go to prayer, what is that? but come, you must go before your father and injoy communion with your father, the father of your redeemer cals you to have communion with him, & ⟨p. 265⟩how doth your heart spring to come into the presence of such a father! So that Christ renders them lovely to his father, and so delivers them from the burden that they are under in legal performances.

Secondly, In Christ, believers when they performed •uties, they do not tender them up unto God as satisfactory for any thing that is past, but merely to be testimonies of their love and thankfulness for what they have received, now duties are a great deal more easily done this way then another. It is true, they will gather arguments from their former neglect to stir them up to do the more, I but, now they are not called upon to their duties to make God amends, and satisfy for what is past for that would be a burden, for such as perform duties in a legal way, and are not acquainted with the doctrine of the Gospel, they know not how to satisfy God, but only by doing so much the more, by how much the more they have neglected heretofore. I have neglected God all the time of my youth, and now conscience begins to be awakened and tells me I must serve God, and perform duties, and I had need be more diligent now, that I may make up and satisfy for what I have neglected before. Now when we perform duties in this way, they are very burdensome, As suppose a man hath run in debt, and he is set up in a trade, I but whatsoever he gets it must be to satisfy what debts he is run out in before, this must make him go on in much heaviness, he thinks that whatsoever he gets, must go to satisfy what he hath run into before. But now take another man that hath run into arrearages, and hath a friend, a kinsman, that comes and lays down all the debts that he owed, and gives him a stock & says now you are a Freeman once again, go on, & whatever you get shall be for your self, this man goes on, a great deal more livelier then the other: just thus it is between the consciences of those that perform duties in a legal way, and the consciences of that perform duties in an evangelical way. One that is legal, conscience tells him