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 Is this your saying, then come away, take him, and take on his yoke cheerfully, For his yoke is easy, and his burden light.

Come my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself, as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

HIS is the way that folk undo themselves, and forsake their own mercies; that which ought to chase them to God, chases them out from him. All hypocritical convictions only put them the further away from the Physician, so it is with judgment, which should put folk to their duties, they are thereby put from it. When the Lord furnishes his glittering sword of justice, then it is to drive his own children into his own hand, Come my people, enter thou into thy chambers.

Ye know the last occasion how we divided these words; ye know also, how that before we left the first head, we said, it would be requisite to shew unto you, who it is that comes to Christ, and who it is that comes not. But we told you, that it would come more fitly in the second head; yet, to