One Hundred and Ninety Sermons on Psalm 119

3. That the Creature may express his readiness; God will have us will, though we cannot do. It is true he giveth both, Phil. 2. 13. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. But the one by preventing, the other by assisting grace, Rom. 7. 18. Though we are unable to do what we should, yet it is the desire of our hearts. Prayer is the expression of our desire. When we heartily beg grace, it is a sign the Commandment is not grievous, but our lusts. It much discovereth a mans heart, what he counteth to be his bondage and the yoke, 1 Joh. 5. 3. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievous. Which do we groan under? the burden of the Law, or the body of death? That is best seen by our heartiness in prayer.

3. That the Creature may express his readiness; God will have us will, though we cannot do. It is true he giveth both, Phil. 2. 13. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. But the one by preventing, the other by assisting grace, Rom. 7. 18. Though we are unable to do what we should, yet it is the desire of our hearts. Prayer is the expression of our desire. When we heartily beg grace, it is a sign the Commandment is not grievous, but our lusts. It much discovereth a mans heart, what he counteth to be his bondage and the yoke, 1 Ioh. 5. 3. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievous. Which do we groan under? the burden of the Law, or the body of death? That is best seen by our heartiness in prayer.