Secondly: As the word signifies Profit, so it signifies Gentleness, in opposition to Severity, to roughness, harshness, or rigidness, and so I find the word in Rom. 11. 22. saith the Apostle, Behold the goodness and severity of God, there it is, Crestos, of easiness, for so Crestos there is the same word, only here is the Adjective, and there the Substantive, the easiness, and gentleness, and severity of God, severity and gentleness opposed to one another, God is very gentle, and sweet, and good unto some, and is very severe unto others. So, Take my Yoke upon you, for it is easy, ⟨p. 635⟩that is, it is gentle, in opposition to severity, and this is very suitable to what Christ hath said before, Learn of me, for I am Meek and Lowly in heart, and my Yoke is as I am, Low as I am, of a gentle disposition, as I am Meek, so you shall find my Yoke, my Yoke is very gentle, you shall find no rigidness, no harshness, no hardness in in my Yoke, that is the meaning of the Yoke; For my Yoke it easy, and my Burden is light, it may be a Yoke and seem to be heavy to you, but the Yoke is easy: but it may be a burden▪ well, if •t be a burden it is light, the word is Nimble agile, it is a very strange thing that it should be a burden, and yet light, it may be a burden to flesh and blood, it may be in some respects burdensome many ways, I but when you have taken it upon you, you will find it light. Now the word translated here Light, it is taken from the lightness and agility of Stags, of those Creatures that are very swift, and agile, and nimble, and light in their motion, from thence the word comes.
Secondly: As the word signifies Profit, so it signifies Gentleness, in opposi•ion to Severity, to roughness, harshness, or rigidness, and so I find the word in Rom. 11. 22. saith the Apostle, Behold the goodness and severity of God, there it is, Crestos, of easiness, for so Crestos there is the same word, only here is the Adjective, and there the Substantive, the easiness, and gentleness, and severity of God, severity and gentleness opposed to one another, God is very gentle, and sweet, and good unto some, and is very severe unto others. So, Take my Yoak upon you, for it is easie, ⟨p. 635⟩that is, it is gentle, in opposition to severity, and this is very suitable to what Christ hath said before, Learn of me, for I am Meek and Lowly in heart, and my Yoak is as I am, Low as I am, of a gentle disposition, as I am Meek, so you shall find my Yoke, my Yoke is very genle, you shall find no rigidness, no harshness, no hardness in in my Yoke, that is the meaning of the Yoke; For my Yoke it easie, and my Burden is light, it may be a Yoke and seem to be heavy to you, but the Yoke is easie: but it may be a burden▪ wel, if •t be a burden it is light, the word is Nimble agile, it is a very strange thing that it should be a burden, and yet light, it may be a burden to flesh and blood, it may be in some respects burdensome many waies, I but when you have taken it upon you, you will find it light. Now the word translated here Light, it is taken from the lightness and agility of Stags, of those Creatures that are very swift, and agill, and nimble, and light in their motion, from thence the word comes.
