Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

Fifthly, Duties are not burdensome unto those that are come to Christ, because that in Christ all duties have joined together with them the promises; when duties are performed in an evangelical way, when the soul is come to Christ then it looks upon every duty that God requires, as having some promise annexed unto the duty, to enable the soul to do what God would have it do, and by this it hath now Rest in performance of it. Doth God require such and such things of me, then the soul doth not only look upon the commandment, but how a promise goes along with the commandment. As how, I might •ance in divers scriptures, how promises ⟨p. 272⟩go along with commandments, I will give you but the comparing of one scripture for the present. Compare the 10. of Deuter. with the 30. of Deuter. In Duter. 10.12. there you shall find it thus. And now O Israel, what doth the Lord thy God, require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to Love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, to keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and his statutes which I command thee this day for thy good. Then at the 16. verse, Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart and be no more stifnecked. Here you see what God requires, they are great things that God requires, that we should fear the Lord, and walk in his ways, and love him, and serve him with all our heart, and keep his commandments and statutes, and circumcise our hearts, and the like, these are hard duties, being performed in a legal way. But now, when the soul is in Christ, see what a promise the soul finds together with these commandments, In the 30. of Deu. and the 6. The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul that thou mayest live. Here God requires them to circumcise their hearts, that they might love him, and fear him, and keep his commandments but that is the Law, were there no more it would be a very heavy burden, for a poor soul to have this lie upon it, that I must love the Lord with all my heart and with all my might, the Lord knows what distractions I have in my soul, and in my heart, God requires me to circumcise my heart, I am not able to do it. but now mark how the Gospel runs, in the Deu. 30.6.

Fifthly, Duties are not burdensome unto those that are come to Christ, because that in Christ al duties have joyned together with them the promises; when duties are performed in an evangelical way, when the soul is come to Christ then it looks upon evey duty that God requires, as having some promise annexed unto the duty, to inable the soul to do what God would have it do, and by this it hath now Rest in performance of it. Doth God require such and such things of me, then the soul doth not only look upon the commandement, but how a promise goes along with the commandement. As how, I might ance in divers scriptures, how promises