Hope not that by refusing to labor to effect an entrance into the heavenly rest, you shall escape all labor. A far sorer travail of soul awaits you, in working out your ruin. Christ, in the days of his flesh, cried, “Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” From these words we gather—first, that sinners are laboring under their sins, which, as a burden grievous to be borne, are bound upon their souls—and secondly, that in comparison with this laboring under sins, the Christian’s labor to be delivered from them is itself a rest.

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