and of righteousness and yet are not convinced of judgment these see the need of the blood of Christ to take away guilt but they see no need of the Grace of Christ to renew their hearts and these will never take up the Yoke of Christ But when the spirit of the Lord carries on the work to a through conviction both of sin and of righteousness and of judgment then it is that the soul is made willing to take up the Yoke of Christ And this brings me to the third preparatory work whereby a man is fitted to take up this Yoke 3. The third thing is the inclining the will There can be no taking up the Yoke of Christ till this be done for wherein lies our subjection to Christ but in a consent of will to take him for our Lord as well as our Saviour and yielding a ready obedience to his laws as well as relying on his merits And herein the most difficult part of conversion lies to bring the will to a free subjection to Jesus Christ There is no part so vitiated and corrupted by the fall as the will The blindness of the mind the stupidness of the conscience is not so great as the obstinacy and rebellion of the will By nature we are willingly subject to no Law but the Law of the members to no will but the will of the flesh Israel would none of me Psal 81.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 had no will to me We will not have this man to reign over us Luk. 19.14 Ye will not come to me that ye might have life John 5.40 It is not subject to the Law of God nor indeed can be Rom. 8.7 There is that enmity and opposition that reluctancy and stoutness of spirit against Christ and his ways such proneness to evil and aversness to good such strong prejudices such deep reasonings such solicitations of Satan such downright rebellion that a voluntary subjection to Christ is an impossible thing Psal 110.3 till God puts forth the all conquering arm of his power and subdues the soul to himself So desperately bent is the heart of every natural man against Christ and so strongly under the impulsion of indwelling lust to vitious practices that neither the promises of life and salvation can allure it nor the threatenings of Hell and Damnation deter it no fear nor hope no danger nor reward can stop it till an Almighty power do it And therefore to talk of moral suasions as sufficient to subdue and bring the will over to Christ is an idle dream of such as either never felt the day of Christs power in their own souls or else contradict their own experiences There is no power can reach to pull a man out of the hands of his sin but the power of the spirit of God As no man can convert himself so no means can reach to do it by the same reason that any one man perisheth in the enmity of his will to Christ and holiness all men would if left to themselves because there is the same original enmity to the things of God in all as there is in any And therefore the government of Christ in the soul is not by choice and consent first had but by power and conquest As it was with Israel God promiseth them the land of Canaan for a possession but it was not a land uninhabited that they might go and possess at pleasure without any more to do no but the Canaanites and the sons of Anak dwelt there and had it in possession and therefore if they will have it they must fight their way into it Thus it is here John 17.6 the elect are Christs by donation given to him by the Father and his by right of Redemption for he dyed for them and bought them with a price 1 Cor. 6.20 but yet Satan hath the possession and by the power of sin and lust detaineth Christs right So that if Christ will be possessed of his right it must be by conquest And therefore his first entrance into the heart is by way of victory Hence ye read of one sitting upon a white horse with a Bow and a Crown and he went forth conquering and to conquer Rev. 6.2 This is the Lord Christ He is said to sit upon a white horse a horse betokens war a white horse betokens victory and triumph And he is said to have a Bow and a Crown the Bow is an instrument of war the Crown is a token of Government The Bow stands before the Crown to shew us that where-ever Christ reigns in any heart it is by conquest and victory first obtained The Bow makes way to the Crown Every Soul is first a Captive to Christ before it is a Subject Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. 2 Cor. 10.5 VVe never submit to his Scepter till we are first overcome by his power They shall be a willing people in the day of thy power Psal 110.3 It is a mighty power that brings the sinner to a submission and resignedness of will to Christ The Soul is first Captivated by his power and then freely submits to his termes This Royal Fort of the will is never yielded up nor the everlasting doors of the heart set open for the King of glory to come in till his power makes way for his presence and therefore this King of glory is said to be The Lord strong and mighty the Lord mighty in battel Psal 24.8 It is his mightiness makes him appear glorious We should never own him nor open to him as King of glory if we did not feel his might by way of victory He alwayes first makes his entrance as the Lord strong and mighty and then the everlasting doors are set open to him to come in as King of glory So that it is manifest that the Government of Christ in the heart is first by way of conquest Not that this is done by any violent compulsion it implies a contradiction that the will can be compelled but by a supernatural power sweetly attemper'd in its manner of working to the nature and disposition of the will whereby the obstinacy is cured the enmity taken away and the will brought over to a free submission to Jesus Christ Thus God works in us to will Phil. 2.13 So that it is an act of omnipotent Grace in regard of God and yet the will hath still the dominion of its own act It is not forcibly compelled but worketh by a self-motion to that to which it is actuated by the power of Divine Grace And when the mind is thus savingly inlightened and the Conscience effectually convinced and the will by the powerful quickening of God sweetly framed for a full conformity and obedience to the divine will then is a man throughly prepared and fitted to take up the yoke of Christ And this is one way by which you may make a judgment in this matter If the mind hath been savingly inlightened
and honour are put together 1 Thess 4.4 That you should know how to possess your vessel in sanctification and honour Nothing can be so great an honour to a man as Religion and Godliness 1. This makes a man like God The truest resemblance that man can carry to his Maker is in Holiness therefore one says Godliness is God-likeness it is the image of God in man Eph. 4.24 That ye put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness And what greater honour than to resemble God especially in that which is the glory of all his perfections and that is holiness His holiness is his greatest honour and glory Who is like thee O Lord Exod. 15.11 among the Gods who is like thee glorious in holiness For this reason sin is the basest and most dishonourable thing in the world it blots out the image of God in man It robs him of his Holiness and what is a man without holiness Take holiness from an Angel and he becomes a Devil and man without holiness is like him 2. The Word every where puts such a difference and distinction between the godly and ungodly as speaks Religion to be very honourable Good men are called the precious The precious sons of Sion Lam. 4.2 Since thou wast precious in my sight thou hast been honourable Isai 43.4 And evil men are called the vile Psal 15.4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned Dan. 11.21 In his estate shall stand up a vile person i. e. Antiochus And Jer. 15.19 If thou take forth the precious from the vile The righteous are called Wheat and the wicked Chaff Mat. 3.12 Others reprobate silver Jer. 6.30 Lam. 4.2 these fine gold others dross these Jewels Mal. 3.17 they bryars and thorns these a noble Vine Nay good men are called the excellent of the earth Psal 16.3 Outward ornaments or Titles of earthly Honour which set one above another in this world without the inward ornaments of Grace and Holiness are but like the Trappings of a Horse or the Chains of Gold about the necks of the Midianites Camels Judg. 8.26 they advance not a man one step above the beasts that perish 3. God himself honours such and he is the fountain of honour he whom God honours shall be honoured indeed 1 Sam. 2.30 Them that honour me will I honour Psal 91.14 15. I will set him on high because he hath known my Name I will be with him in trouble I will deliver him and honour him 4. True honour begins in Religion and ends there When a man begins to owne and serve God there his honour begins And when a man casts off Religion his honour is lost He that despises me shall be lightly esteemed 1 Sam. 2.30 Hold that fast which thou hast that no man take thy crown Rev. 3.11 A Crown is a token of the highest honour and what is the Christians Crown He hath two Crowns one present one future his future Crown is Glory 1 Pet. 5.4 His present Crown is godliness and sincerity in Religion if he falls from Religion his Crown falls 5. In that it is pretended to for by-ends where nothing of the truth and power of it is Having a form of godliness but denying the power What makes men hypocrites but because they would have the honour of Religion though they have nothing of the truth of it If a man would increase his trade and draw custom he pretends Religion If a man would draw Disciples after him in broaching any new Opinion he must be very strict and seem very religious for this gives a reputation to a person among the vulgar that judge by appearances and so promotes the Doctrine Now if Religion were not a thing of great honour and reputation men would never pretend to it that are enemies to the life and virtue of it 6. It is praised by them that love it not He that fondly hugs vice will yet commend vertue The Drunkard will commend sobriety he would not have his child or servant a drunkard The Deceiver commends Justice and though he practises deceit upon others he himself would not be served so He loves to buy by just weights and measures though he sells by false ones The Adulterer loves a chast wife and the filthy Strumpet would have her husband true to her bed though she be false to his 7. It puts honour upon a man in death The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance Psal 112.6 The memory of the just is blessed but the name of the wicked shall rot Prov. 10.7 No man dyes in the bed of honour but he that perseveres in the ways of God whiles he lives Rom. 14.8 and dyes to the Lord when he dyes 8. Christ will put honour upon him at last When the wicked shall be cast out with shame and everlasting contempt from the glorious presence of God with a go ye cursed then shall the righteous be honoured with a come ye blessed of my Father c. And shall shine body and soul with the glory of Christ for ever O what an honour is it to be godly Let no man be ashamed of Christ and his Yoke What though Religion is scoffed at in the world it is only by them that know nothing of it and so are not fit to judge The Moon is never the less bright because the dogs bark at it It is sin that is the reproachful thing Prov. 14.34 Sin is a reproach to any people It is a dishonour Prov. 6.33 It is a shame Lest he walked naked and they see his shame Rev. 16.15 Sin is not a thing of good report is it any reputation to a man to be a drunkard unclean proud covetous profane Oh no. Sin hath an ill name in the world among all even sinners themselves unless it be among the vilest Torys and Debauchees and it becomes the more odious by their esteem and character If there be any honour in sin why do men hide it Why doth it seek corners and the covers of darkness They that are drunk are drunk in the night 1 Thess 5.7 The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight saying No eye shall see me and disguises his face The morning is to them as the shadow of death if one know them they are in the terrors of the shadow of death Job 24.15 17. And Solomon says of the young man void of understanding that he goes to the harlots house In the twilight in the evening in the black and dark night Prov. 7.7 8 9. And why is not sin owned by its own name among its servants and abetters But it must be painted with vertues colours to render it taking This speaks it deformed and ugly in it self Covetousness is condemned of all I but frugality is a lovely thing and therefore griping and carking and caring and pinching is not covetousness but frugality A proud person is contemned of all I but neatness and decency is lovely
they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory 1 Corinth 2.8 So did men but know what Religion is they would revere it and not scoff at it But the God of this world hath blinded their minds 2 Cor. 4.4 And who values the judgment of a blind man why then should any one be discouraged from owning Religion by the scoffs of such as know nothing of it or Secondly They are sensualists men soaked in sensual pleasures and swayed by brutish appetite swilling Sots Debauchees beastly Buffoons men of profligate Lives and Consciences 2 Pet. 3.3 who never had the least savour of the things of Religion and are these competent Judges of the sweetness of the heavenly life what do they know of the things they scoff at and reproach ask them what Religion is and they are not well enough catechised to make an answer They understand the newest fashions the wittiest Plays the most taking Healths the gentilest Oaths things suitable to their huffing humour but as for the ways of God they are far above out of their sight Psal 10.5 And therefore as brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed they speak evil of the things they understand not and shall utterly perish in their own corruption 2. Pet. 2.12 4. Consider why they scoff at Religion and at them who profess and practise it First Why do they scoff at Religion but because it would restrain their lusts and obstruct their sinful course which they are bent upon And therefore they discountenance Religion that they may the better countenance their lusts There shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lusts 2 Pet. 3.3 mark it is for the sake of their lusts that Religion is scorned and hated It is from an evil life that any man reproaches Godliness they hate the light and come not to it lest their deeds should be reproved John 3.20 Secondly Why do they scoff at them that profess and own Religion but because they will not be Beasts nor offer violence to their Reason nor stifle the convictions of their own Consciences nor resist the spirit nor put off the Image of God and become as Devils They mock at them for taking God for their chief good for seeking his love and favour for minding and endeavouring to save an immortal Soul for labouring to avoid the wrath of God and the miseries of Hell and to secure an everlasting happiness For this is the great work and business of Religion the Object of it is God in Christ the Rule of it is the holy Scriptures the End of it is the Glory of God in our own Salvation and the whole work and business of it is to dye to sin to live to righteousness to walk after the spirit and not to fulfill the lusts of the flesh To deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Tit. 2.12 This is the sure way to that blessed end ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life Rom. 6.22 This is the summ of the Christian Religian and what is here to be ridiculed and made mockery they that will scoff at men for being Religious may as well scoff at the Seaman for using a Pilot to keep the Ship from Rocks and Sands or at the blind man for walking with a guide that he may not fall into the Pit or at the sick man for seeking a Cure when his life is in danger They scoff at you for keeping the promise they have broken and for endeavouring to make good the baptismal Covenant which they have violated They have promised to renounce the world to forsake the Devil and all his works to abandon the lusts of the flesh but have not done it but are Covenant-breakers and because you labour to be true to your Covenant with God therefore they mock and scoff so that the true reason of all is because you are not as vile as they as false to God and to your ingagement they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riot speaking evil of you 1 Pet. 4.4 and is not this most irrational and worse than brutish and why should you cease to act like rational creatures because others act below the Brutes 5. It is not you but God whom they hate and scorn it is his name and honour they wound through your sides and therefore the Apostle calls the reproach of Christians Christs reproach Heb. 13.13 For whoever scoffs at any man for that of God that is in him scoffs not at man so much as at God Were you a swinish Drunkard an unclean Brute a proud Huff an hectoring Atheist a Dam-mee like themselves they would hug and imbrace you so that the hatred and enmity is evidently against the Image and Life of God in you and therefore against God himself If ye were of the world the world would love his own but because ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hates you John 15.19 Now if the holy God who is able to frown the proudest sinner into Hell in a moment is patient and long suffering towards these and bears all their scoffs and hard speeches and indignities why should you think much to bear them especially when it is for his name sake All these things will they do unto you for my name sake John 15.21 6. Set the respect of God against the scorns of the World What though the World hates so long as God loves let them reproach thee yet the holy God honours thee If any man serve me 1 Sam 2.30 him will my father honour John 12.26 He is not ashamed to be called your God Heb. 11.16 and if so why should you be ashamed to be called his People He accounts of you as the excellent of the Earth Psal 16.3 and therefore you should set that against the mocks and scoffs of wicked men Aliud judicium hominis aliud judicium Dei whose judgment is most to be esteemed the righteous Gods Rom. 2.2 which is always according to truth or unrighteous mans which is blinded with prejudice and hatred of God and all his ways and People and therefore the Apostle Paul flights the censures of men and values himself wholly upon the approbation of God With me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of mans judgment but be that judgeth me is the Lord 1 Cor. 4.3 4. 7. These scoffs and reproaches which you undergo upon the account of Christ and Religion here shall add to your Crown and greaten your Glory in the last Day Every degree of suffering for Christ now shall then have its reward He that hath promised to requite your well doing to a cup of cold water Matt. 10.42 hath also promised to recompence your sufferings to the least scoff or jeer Blessed are ye when men shall revile you rejoyce and be exceeding
the case is not the same for we are bound to answer Gods precepts but he is not bound to answer our requests and yet we make him tarry our sinful leisure in the business of duty though we think much to tarry his holy leisure in the case of mercy Secondly It is down-right disobedience he that delays a duty transgresses the precept and slights the divine Authority The season is as much a part of the command as the thing commanded If God says return ye now every one from his evil way Jer. 18.11 the now is as much a duty as the returning If the Father says to his Son go work to day in my vineyard Matt. 21.28 it is flat disobedience to defer it till to morrow for the time of working is as much a duty as the work it self Thirdly It is the highest ingratitude for Christ did not adjourn his love to us one day his heart was to us from everlasting I was set up from everlasting rejoycing in the habitable parts of the earth and my delights were with the sons of men Prov. 8.23.31 He gave himself in the Covenant of Redemption to dye for sin and redeem sinners from the first day that sin entred And therefore he is said to be a lamh slain from the foundadation of the world Revel 13.8 Though he came not to dye actually till the fullness of time Galat. 4.4 yet in the decree of God the Father and in the consent of God the Son he was a Saviour from the beginning and his Blood was as efficacious to Salvation before ever it was shed as after he was a Saviour and Redeemer from the first entrance of sin Adam Noah Abraham and all the Saints that lived before his Incarnation were saved by his Blood as well as we His love bears date from everlasting and it breaks forth very early in the overt acts of it to particular persons Christ begins with sinners betimes who knows how soon puts upon many of them a federal holiness betimes seals them for his betimes puts his spirits into them betimes and calls them to an actual close with him betimes it is hard to say how soon but it appears to be very early in that many have been converted from their very childhood as Samuel and Timothy and others O the earliness of the love of Christ and shall we adjourn our obedience as if we were afraid of closing with him too soon he took up our burden betimes and shall we delay the taking up his Yoke for the last work of our lives This is great ingratitude Fourthly It is manifest injustice and a fraudulent detaining of Christs right For whose you are his your strength and service is and are ye not the Lords hath he not redeemed you and that both by price at the hands of God and by power out of the hands of Satan ye are the redeemed of the Lord and therefore you are his your time is his your gifts and parts are his your affections are his your estates are his your strength is his your youth is his your body and soul are his your all is his and therefore not to give up your selves body and soul to him not to love and fear and serve him is a crying injustice Nay to delay it one day one moment is to deny him his right Many boast of their honesty they are just to all and wrong none yes you wrong your redeemer you are unjust to Jesus Christ and that is the highest injustice in the world To delay any man in that which is his right is a great sin the wages of the hireling must be paid at the day and it must be done before the sun be set Deut. 24.14 15. It is a maxim in the Law minus solvit qui minus tempore solvit not to pay at the time is to pay the less because there is so much advantage for improvement lost Is it such a sin to detain a servants right what is it then to detain our Lords right must we not withhold wages for a servants work till the sun be set and yet dare we withhold doing our Lords work till the sun of our lives is setting O what base injustice is this Fifthly It is altogether unreasonable there is no man living can give a reason to excuse him from this duty You cannot say it is the wrong way to Heaven for it is the way the Lord Christ hath directed and chalked out You cannot say it is a needless Yoke for there is no Salvation without taking it upon you You cannot say it is a dangerous Yoke for it hath salvation certainly intailed upon it You cannot say it is a fruitless Yoke Matt. 11.28 for it yields perfect peace and lasting joy to all that come under it You cannot say it is an impossible Yoke for as you have the command of Christ to undertake it so you have the promise of Christ to help and inable you to bear it So that you cannot give one reason why you should neglect it and therefore he that refuses to take it up is without excuse Whoever remains graceless in a day of Grace will be found speechless in the Day of Judgement Matt. 22.12 Sixthly It is downright madness for you refuse Heaven because you will not be holy You will rather lose the eternal injoyment of God than be made like God You will rather chuse to perish under the wrath of Christ than you will consent to come under the Yoke of Christ You will be contented to be damned so you may go a pleasant way to Hell And is not this madness to the height to chuse rather to perish eternally than be tied to love and serve your maker and redeemer O what a base and low opinion have you of God and Heaven how can ye degrade and dishonour him more If a man should publish it as his opinion that darkness is better than light that Hell is rather to be chosen than Heaven that he had rather be in an everlasting society with Devils and damned Spirits than with God and Christ in the glory above what would you say of such a one but that he talked like a mad man why then reflect upon your selves a little for mutato nomine do teâ— Fabula narratur you that prefer the pleasures of sin to the service of Christ that will renounce your part in God and Christ and eternal happiness to satisfie a base lust that will stake your Souls for a few minutes of sinful delights can any man be guilty of greater madness do ye know what ye do or what ye speak when ye say in your hearts this lust shall reign but Christ shall not reign let us break his bonds Psal 2.3 and cast his cords far away from us this is treason against the Crown of Heaven your Blood Luk. 19.27 your Life your Soul must go for this Those mine enemies that would not that I should reign over them bring them out and
be not changed and made holy it is all in vain as to him because Christ dyed for sinners this many look upon as a good ground for hope but the question if put home must be this did Christ ever dye to save impenitent and unregenerate sinners did he dye to save such as flight him refuse his yoke and live and dye enemies to him if he did then hope on but if not then there is no hope Nay let me tell you it is out of the reach of Christs power to save any one of you in your lusts Mat. 1.21 He can save you from your sins but he cannot save you in your sins For 1. He can't falsify his trust God the father hath put the great work of Salvation and damnation into Christs hands And how is salvation carryed on but in pursuance of the election of God look how God chooses to Salvation and so Christ carries it on Now we are chosen that we should be holy Eph. 1.4 He hath chosen us through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience 1 Pet. 1.2 And therefore Christ will save none that are not sanctified for he came to do the will of God and he will not betray his trust 2. He cannot alter the standing law of Heaven and what is that it is the standing law of Heaven which the righteous God hath fixed more firm than the Sun in the Firmament and will never vary from it that a man must repent Luk. 13.2 and turn to Christ or perish He must be converted or he shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Matt. 18.3 He must take the yoke of Christ upon him Heb. 3.18 or he shall never find rest to his Soul Mat. 5.8 None but the pure in heart shall see God This is the standing law of Heaven and how then can the unbelieving and disobedient be saved either the law of Heaven must be reversed or sinners are eternally undone and will Christ who revealed this law to the world reverse it again to gratifie thy lusts 3. He can't make void his own offices Why hath God made him a King but to subdue sinners to himself to conquer the nolency of the will to set up his government and rule in the heart and to subdue and destroy the rebels He reigns that he may put all his enemies under his feet 1 Cor. 15.25 And if so what shall become of disobedient sinners can you think that this Melchizedek this King of Righteousness will ever countenance the impenitent and unbelieving will he take those to reign with him in his Kingdom of glory that would not that he should rule over them in the Kingdom of grace This were to violate the rights of his Crown which you cannot think he will do if you do but consider two Scriptures one is Luk. 19.27 Those mine enemies that would not that I should reign over them bring hither and slay them before me The other is in 2 Thes 1.7 8 9. The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power And how do you that slight Christ think to escape this sentence will not the judgment of the great day of the Lord be very terrible to all that live and dye in their lusts can you bear it Can thy heart indure or thy hand be made strong in the day that I shall deal with thee Ezek. 22.14 If not then be wise and flee from wrath to come and there is but one way and that is by closing with Jesus Christ and giving your selves up to an intire subjection to his yoke There is no way to escape wrath and secure eternal life but this You read of a strait gate Mat. 7.14 and a narrow way that leads to life The yoke of the spirit in conviction to conversion that is the strait gate and the yoke of Christ in holiness and obedience that is the narrow way and there is no other and as our Lord Christ sayes few there be that find it Is there any sinner here now that stands convinced of the necessity of undertaking this duty that you must take up Christs yoke or you must perish in your sins I hope you are and therefore I shall lay you down some directions to help and guide you in this work Take heed of mistaking the yoke of Christ Direct 1 Some will tell you it lies in this way of worship some in that as Christ sayes many will say lo here is Christ Mat. 24.23 and lo their is Christ believe them not Some will perswade you it lyes in ceremonious services and humane traditions but this is the yoke of men and not the yoke of Christ and therefore take heed of it If you would know which is the yoke of Christ you must be guided by the word of Christ for nothing is duty but what the word commands Some will tell you it lyes in Popery but this is the yoke of Antichrist And therefore you that are young ones take heed of this yoke for it is none of Christs It is a grievous yoke It binds you from the use of the Scriptures which are able to make you wise to Salvation It ties you up to worship God in an unknown tongue in a language you don't understand It ties you to make use of many Mediators whereas there is but one Mediator between God and man 1 Tim. 2.5 the man Christ Jesus It ties you to believe against your senses To believe that a blind sottish Priest can with a few words convert a wafer into the very body and blood of Christ and then you must believe it to be the very substance of Christ against Scripture against Reason and against Sense For though the Scripture calls it still bread and though you break bread and see bread and tast and eat bread yet you must believe it not to be bread It ties you to believe many abominable errors and false Doctrines as that of merit by works though Christ sayes when we have done all we must say we are unprofitable servants Luk. 17.10 And that of the infallibility of the Pope and his Supremacy over all Churches and Princes and that if he doth but excommunicate any Prince and pronounce him a Heretick it is lawful to murder him It is full of such abominable Doctrines Oh therefore never come under this yoke it is an idolatrous yoke a cruel bloody yoke a heavy intolerable yoke a yoke which neither we nor our fore-fathers were able to bear therefore they wisely cast it off and let us rather choose to dye then put it on again for it is none of the Yoke of Christ If you would resolve to take up Christs Direct 2 yoke then you must remove all hinderances