The trades-man's calling being a discourse concerning the nature, necessity, choice, &c. of a…

Answ. But I answer. There is nothing so hard in Religion, but the Grace of God will make it easy. Your Trades seemed very hard at first, but now you find them easy enough. As a new Suit of Clothes pincheth you a little at first, but in a few days they are easy enough; so being a while habituated to a godly Course, the Difficulty will vanish, and the Suavity will abide. To live in Idleness and perish for hunger, looks easy; but who will therefore choose it? No, you'll work, and sweat, and die with Labour, rather than live in want. And why should Difficulties in Religion only fright you? But if you will believe God, you must acknowledge, that his Yoke is easy, and his Burden is light; that his ways are ways of Pleasantness, and all his Paths are Peace. Or, if you will credit those that have tried them, they will unanimously avouch, that there is more Comfort in the Hardships of Religion, than in the Pleasures of Sin. But what do we dispute about Difficulty, when Necessity is in the case; you must be holy now, or miserable for ever: and you that cry, how hard a thing it is to get into Heaven, will find it an harder matter to get out of Hell.

Answ. But I answer. There is nothing so hard in Religion, but the Grace of God will make it easy. Your Trades seemed very hard at first, but now you find them easy enough. As a new Suit of Cloaths pincheth you a little at first, but in a few days they are easie enough; so being a while habituated to a godly Course, the Difficulty will vanish, and the Suavity will abide. To live in Idleness and perish for hunger, looks easy; but who will therefore chuse it? No, you'l work, and sweat, and die with Labour, rather than live in want. And why should Difficulties in Religion only fright you? But if you will believe God, you must acknowledg, that his Yoke is easy, and his Burden is light; that his ways are ways of Pleasantness, and all his Paths are Peace. Or, if you will credit those that have tried them, they will unanimously avouch, that there is more Comfort in the Hardships of Religion, than in the Pleasures of Sin. But what do we dispute about Difficulty, when Necessity is in the case; you must be holy now, or miserable for ever: and you that cry, how hard a thing it is to get into Heaven, will find it an harder matter to get out of Hell.