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And if any shall here say, This is a very hard task: I Answer first, Can it be hard to be in heaven? Nay, it's an ease rather, for Christ's yoke is easy and his burden is light: & in as much as our Conversation is in heaven we have so much true Spiritual ease & repose of soul: & it is what we leave behind in the world, that makes the difficulty to get our Spirits screwed up to heaven, and to be kept there: here lies the difficulty: but the more the ⟨p. 120⟩heart and the mind be there, we have really the more ease. 2. Will ye shift, deny or decline the duty, because it's difficult and hard? As indeed it is to corrupt nature: Notwithstanding all the difficulty of it, the Apostle Paul with his fellows and followers did win to it in a good measure, and we may attain it through Grace, according to our Measure; Is not this the way to heaven which our Lord calleth Strait, and which but few find? And yet, if ye would try and make proof of it in good earnest: ye would find it to be not so very strait or unpassable as ye Imagine it to be: It would be found to be waited with such delight, as would much sweeten any hardness in it: and ye would not want an insight in those heavenly mysteries, and the beholding your names written in heaven and in the Lambs book of life, nor one hours feeding upon and being solaced by them, for all he delights of the men of this world: and since it's only hard to corruption, it should be so much the more endeavoured and plied hard.

And if any shall here say, This is a very hard task: I Answer first, Can it be hard to be in heaven? Nay, it's an ease rather, for Christ's yoke is easie and his burden is light: & in as much as our Conversation is in heaven we have so much true Spiritual ease & repose of soul: & it is what we leave behind in the world, that makes the difficulty to get our Spirits scrued up to heaven, and to be kept there: here lyes the difficulty: but the more the ⟨p. 120⟩heart and the mind be there, we have really the more ease. 2. Will ye shift, deny or decline the duty, because it's difficult and hard? As indeed it is to corrupt nature: Notwithstanding all the difficulty of it, the Apostle Paul with his fellows and followers did win to it in a good measure, and we may attain it through Grace, according to our Measure; Is not this the way to heaven which our Lord calleth Strait, and which but few find? And yet, if ye would try and make proof of it in good earnest: ye would find it to be not so very strait or unpassable as ye Imagine it to be: It would be found to be waited with such delight, as would much sweeten any hardness in it: and ye would not want an insight in those heavenly mysteries, and the beholding your names written in heaven and in the Lambs book of life, nor one hours feeding upon and being solaced by them, for all he delights of the men of this world: and since it's only hard to corruption, it should be so much the more endeavoured and plyed hard.