A Body of Practical Divinity

Quest. What means shall we use that we may obey?

Resp. 1. Serious Consideration: Consider Gods Commands are not grievous: He commands nothing unreasonable, 1 John 5.3. It is easier to obey the commands of God than Sin: The Commands of Sin are Burdensome: Let a Man be under the power of any Lust, How doth he tire himself? What Hazards doth he run, ⟨p. 245⟩even to the endangering his Health and Soul, that he may satisfy his Lust? What tedious Journeys did Antiochus Epiphanes take in persecuting the Jews? Jer. 9.5. They weary themselves to commit Iniquity; and are not Gods commands more easy to obey? Chrysost. saith, [Greek or Hebrew]. Virtue is easier than Vice; Temperance is less Burdensome than Drunkenness: Some have gone with less pains to Heaven, than others have to Hell.

Resp. 1. Serious Consideration: Consider Gods Commands are not grievous: He commands nothing unreasonable, 1 Iohn 5.3. It is easier to obey the commands of God than Sin: The Commands of Sin are Burdensome: Let a Man be under the power of any Lust, How doth he tire himself? What Hazards doth he run, ⟨p. 245⟩even to the endangering his Health and Soul, that he may satisfie his Lust? What tedious Journeys did Antiochus Epiphanes take in persecuting the Jews? Ier. 9.5. They weary themselves to commit Iniquity; and are not Gods commands more easie to obey? Chrysost. saith, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Virtue is easier than Vice; Temperance is less Burdensome than Drunkenness: Some have gone with less pains to Heaven, than others have to Hell.