weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” As bodily weariness, and a heavy burden, are not things of which the rich in this world have to complain;—in like manner the spiritually weary here spoken of, and the heavy laden here invited, are not those who fancy themselves well furnished with store for their souls, but the spiritually poor, those who are wearied with the labors which that hardest of masters, sin, exacts of them, and heavy laden with the burdens which he puts upon them. Such persons,
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