Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…

1. That a child of God is never usually weary of the duty, but rather of his vile heart, to think of, and to look upon; that in the duty Christ's yoke is easy, and his burden light, to him that takes it on his neck and puts his Soul under it. The duty nakedly considered in it self, is glorious in his eyes, and sweet to his Soul; and hence sometimes never well, but when he considers his dead, blind, barren, and senseless heart, that he is to carry to the duty, and that he fears, and has felt will abide with him in the duty: Oh! this grieves, here the Soul pincheth. An Hypocrite is weary of the duty: a child of God rejoiceth in it; but he is weary of his sin, and unsavouriness and weariness in the duty. I persuade my self Sir, that you may soon mistake your spirit herein; you think you are unwilling to come to the duty; and are weary of it, when indeed, it is your glory, joy, and love; but it is because you fear you can do it no better, that troubles you, that you have such a vile heart in it. And if your trouble be from hence, the good Lord increase it in you daily: and withal, bless the Lord, and say, Lord though I am weary of my vile heart, in these days of humiliation, in these Sabbaths; yet I bless thee, the days and duties themselves thou knowest are dear unto me; It is not Lord because I am weary ⟨p. 41⟩of thy word, but because I can do it no better, I am weary of my self, and this vile heart: Here is much love in such a spirit to the Lord. And believe it, Sir, your love wants not it's recompenses; and remember that the Lord respects you not according to your duties done, but according to your love in them, and to them. And therefore those duties you are ashamed to own, the Lord will not be ashamed to crown.

1. That a child of God is never usually weary of the duty, but rather of his vile heart, to think of, and to look upon; that in the duty Christ's yoke is easie, and his burthen light, to him that takes it on his neck and puts his Soul under it. The duty nakedly considered in it self, is glorious in his eyes, and sweet to his Soul; and hence sometimes never well, but when he considers his dead, blind, barren, and senseless heart, that he is to carry to the duty, and that he fears, and has felt will abide with him in the duty: Oh! this grieves, here the Soul pincheth. An Hypocrite is weary of the duty: a child of God rejoiceth in it; but he is weary of his sin, and unsavouriness and weariness in the duty. I perswade my self Sir, that you may soon mistake your spirit herein; you think you are unwilling to come to the duty; and are weary of it, when indeed, it is your glory, joy, and love; but it is because you fear you can do it no better, that troubles you, that you have such a vile heart in it. And if your trouble be from hence, the good Lord increase it in you daily: and withal, bless the Lord, and say, Lord though I am weary of my vile heart, in these days of humiliation, in these Sabbaths; yet I bless thee, the days and duties themselves thou knowest are dear unto me; It is not Lord because I am weary