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* 1.112. LAstly, here is presupposed, painfulness and weariness in our motion. This ariseth not from any evil in the work or way; for Christs yoke is easie, his burden light, and his commands not grievous: But 1. From the opposition we meet with. 2. The
contrary principles still remaining in our nature, which will make us cry out, O wretched men, Rom. 7.24. 3. The weakness of our graces, and so of our motion: Great labour, where there is a suitable strength, is a pleasure; but to the weak, how painful! With what panting and weariness doth a feeble man ascend that hill, which the sound man runs up with ease! We are all, even the best, but feeble. An easie, dull profession of Religion, that never encountereth with these difficulties and pains, is a sad sign of an un∣sound heart. Christ indeed hath freed us from the Impossibilities of the Covenant of Works, and from the burden and yoke of Legal Ceremonies, but not from the difficulties and pains of Gospel duties.
4. Our continued distance from the End, will raise some grief also: for desire and hope, implying the absence of the thing desired, and hoped for, do ever imply also some grief for that absence; which all vanish when we come to possession. All these twelve things are implyed in a Christians Motion, and so presupposed to his Rest.
§. 12. Prov. 4.6. Mat. 11.30. 1 John 5.3.