Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

I will conclude this particular with this one similitude, as it is with the body, Physicians observe, that together with every vein where the blood runs, there runs likewise an artery together with the vein, now the artery is the vehiculum of the spirits that are in the body of a man, that puts liveliness and quickness into the body: So for all the world thus it is in regard of the commandments of the Law and the Promises of the Gospel. I compare the Commandments of the Law unto the veins, they are these duties required of thee in the whole course of thy life, but if thou hast veins of blood, and hast no arteries, no spirit, thou wilt be but dull, though the blood be full in the veins, yet there will be little strength. But now there is the spirit that goes along in the arteries that gives life to the veins. So now, they that are under the Law they know many duties that they ought to do, I but except they have the promises of the ⟨p. 274⟩Gospel, to go along with them, they have little life, little activity to do the duty. Therefore Christians, when you hear any duty out of Gods word that you ought to perform, consider, here is the duty, here is the vein, I but where is the artery, there is a promise in the word that goes along with the duty to enable me to perform the duty. Now if I take both together I may go on in the way of Godliness with a great deal of ease and quiet, and no duty needs to be troublesome to me. The want of the knowledge of this one thing makes the lives of many people to be very disconsolate, and makes them go on deadly and dully in the performance of duty, whereas if they would make use of this one thing, when they are put upon any duty to search and find out in the word the promise wherein God enables us to do the duty, and plead the promise, and say, Lord, thou requirest the performance of this duty, but thou hast promised to enable me to do it, I say, if thou wouldst do thus, thou wouldest find that thy duties would not be burdensome to thee, but thou wouldest say, well, I see my soul hath rest in Christ in the performance of all those services that heretofore have been very grievous and burdensome to me.

I wil conclude this particular with this one similitude, as it is with the body, Physitians observe, that together with every veine where the blood runs, there runs likewise an artery together with the veine, now the artery is the vehiculum of the spirits that are in the body of a man, that puts liveliness and quickness into the body: So for al the world thus it is in regard of the commandements of the Law and the Promises of the Gospel. I compare the Commandements of the Law unto the veines, they are these duties required of thee in the whol course of thy life, but if thou hast veines of blood, and hast no arteries, no spirit, thou wilt be but dul, though the blood be ful in the veins, yet there wil be little strength. But now there is the spirit that goes along in the arteries that gives life to the veines. So now, they that are under the Law they know many duties that they ought to do, I but except they have the promises of the