· oo The Churches Marriage. Firft, the Lord bath faid in .plainetea·rmes. if thou .wilt beie:ve his w_ord, .tha_t hif.J~lu if eape, ttndhuh.urthenltght: I w11l make.tt plame to thee, thou fhalt not deny it. There are&ut two things · .tbat make the burthen ofChrift, that is his Law, to be hard, and that is either · The cmitrariety, or, . The difproportion. Fot, there is nothing makesa thinghard, but one. ofthefe two• .One is the contrariety betweene our wills ; the reiutlancybetwe,~ne our wills and Gods. Chrift will have ·one thing , and wee another :hence comes ~he difficulty•. J£our willswere the fame, - then there were nodifficulty, then a man lives as hewould,ashelifr. ' But beloved, ifthou match with him ,he will give thee anotherwill; he will take away that reluchtncy and renitancy, he will take away thy old nature, thou fhalt .have a new nature, and a new will, and fo then ·they are eaue. - The other is from difproportion: ifa man have a great burthen and a little firength, the burthen proves heavy, why? not becaufe the burthen is in it felfe heavy, but becaufe there is but little ftrengti1. No~ know, that Chrifl: is fucb a hus– band, as that what bee gives in charge, bee will give firength to doe it ; this I touched the Ia!l: tim.e, in comparing the twohusbands, RfJm. 7. - fee there our firfl: -httsband the Law, to which every man is marryed , till bee be matched to Chrift; that'isahard yoke, he ~omrnands much and
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