Captives bound in chains, made free by Christ their surety

The flesh doth make false reports of the ways of God, but come and try, and you will say, you heard much was said against the tediousness of Religion, and for the easiness of Christ's yoke, but now I find, the one half, was not expressed, of what might be experienced of the delight and sweetness in it, which takes off the burdensomeness of it.

The flesh doth make false reports of the ways of God, but come and try, and you will say, you heard much was said against the tediousness of Religion, and for the easiness of Christ's yoak, but now I find, the one half, was not expressed, of what might be experienced of the delight and sweetness in it, which takes off the burdensomeness of it.

2. Set the necessity of being found in the ways of God against the difficulty of walking in them. If a thing be difficult and unpleasing, yet if you apprehend it to be necessary, that it must be done, you set upon it; it is a burden to some people to take Physic, but when they are so sick, but they must take it or die, they set themselves unto it. Sirs, do not stand disputing, it is a difficult matter to be holy, to love God, to turn from Sin, it is a burden to you to serve God; hard or not hard, it must be done, burden or no burden, it must be done, or you die and that for ever. You must do the things that God requireth, repent, believe, become new creatures, accept of Christ, be holy, or you must be damned; here is no trifling in the case: here is no arguing pro and con to be admitted, these ⟨p. 71⟩things must be done, or your Souls shall not be saved; if the word of God be true, this is true. They are not my words, but the words of the true eternal God; turn and see, Mat. 18.3. Mar. 16.15.16. Rom. 8.13.