Four books on the eleventh of Matthew

Ninthly: The ways of Christ are easy, because they bring ease and freedom from all cares, all your troubles and cares, all your carking cares you have hereby ease from under them, come once under the yoke of Christ, and then you have nothing to do but to make known your requests to God, you need not care what shall become of you, either for the present or for eternity, if you be once got into the yoke of Christ. Do not mistake me, to think that if once you come to profess religion you need take care for nothing, No, But I say, from all carking cares, and troublesome cares, you may be delivered from them as soon as ever you come into the ways of Christ; many Christians have it at the first, and if not at first, yet if you continue in them, you may come to have so much satisfaction in them, that any carking care that may cause trouble to your souls, in regard of your outward or inward, your present or eternal estate, all will be gone, for whatever you would take care for to help you, it is taken care for you there. Luther hath such an expression I remember, A Christian may keep a perpetual Sabbath all his life, and all the week long, any thing that you would have to help you otherwise, God himself will take care for you that you shall have it in himself, you shall have all in himself. We have a place in Isaiah for the encouragement of the people of God, in Isa. 30. 7. For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose, therefore have I cried concerning this▪ their strength is to sit still. Here they did depend much upon the Egyptians for help, I but saith God, you need not trouble your selves about this, the Egyptians to help▪ Their strength is to sit still. The word Strength here in the Original is Egypt, their Egypt is to sit still▪ as in another place, in Isaiah 51. 9.

Ninthly: The waies of Christ are easie, because they bring ease and freedome from al cares, al your troubles and cares, all your carking cares you have hereby ease from under them, come once under the yoke of Christ, and then you have nothing to do but to make known your requests to God, you need not care what shal become of you, either for the present or for erernity, if you be once got into the yoke of Christ. Do not mistake me, to think that if once you come to profess religion you need take care for nothing, No, But I say, from al carking cares, and troublesome cares, you may be delivered from them assoon as ever you come into the waies of Christ; many Christians have it at the first, and if not at first, yet if you continue in them, you may come to have so much satisfaction in them, that any carking care that may cause trouble to your souls, in regard of your outward or inward, your present or eternal estate, all will be gone, for whatever you would take care for to help you, it is taken care for you there. Luther hath such an expression I remember, A Christian may keep a perpetual Sabbath all his life, and all the week long, any thing that you would have to help you otherwise, God himself wil take care for you that you shal have it in himself, you shal have all in himself. We have a place in Isaiah for the encouragement of the people of God, in