There be some almost invincible infirmities, as forgetfulness, heaviness of spirit, sudden passions, fears, etc., which, though natural, yet are for the most part tainted with sin; of these, if the life of Christ be in us, we are weary, and would fain shake them off, as a sick man his ague; otherwise it is not to be esteemed weakness so much as willfulness, and the more will, the more sin; and little sins, when God shall awake the conscience, and “set them in order before us” (Ps. 50:21), will prove great burdens, and not only bruise a reed, but shake a cedar.
