lOgctotto are thefe portable by any meer man ? fo fay the Romaniffs from this very place, but the rniftake is fo grofs that the communis f en- fur of Chriftians runs againft it ; faith can un- riddle it another way, the impotübles of the Law, the finlefs perfeaion unattainable by us were fulfilled by Chriff, the heavy end of the Law, the dreadful curie unavoidable by us was born by Chrifi, the Covenant of grace is fatished with uprightnefs in the wayes of God, which is eafie to a renewed man: its true, while there is only the preffure of a Law without, and nothing but a natural heart of enmity within , the wayes of God are irkfom and tedious, which occafìoned a Di- vine to fay that a man might take a carnal man, tye him to a table, and kli him with praying and preaching; but it is far other- wife with the believer , who ferves God not in the oldneß of the letter, but in the newneß of the fpirit, who bath a Law within anfwer- ing to the Law without, and a fpirit with- in prompting the fame in the heart , which the fpirit in the command doth outwardly ditate. Prayer is but the breathing of the new - creature, holy delires its pulfe, holinefs its element obedience its common walk , alms but the opening of its hands, contem- plation but the lifting up of its eyes, all na- tural and eafie, becaufe from inward prin- ciples of life and grace : My yoke is eafie , k dung fermo, an hard flying to every man but ;o the believer , who does all fweetly and 139
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