the Law but under Grace, and freed from the burdens of numberless observances which
were indeed a heavy yoke, but meetly imposed on a stubborn neck, every grievous trouble
which that prince who is cast forth could inflict from without on the outward man, should
through the easiness of a simple faith, and a good hope, and a holy charity, become light
through the joy within. For to a good will nothing is so easy, as this good will to itself, and
this is enough for God. How much soever therefore this world may rage, most truly did the
angels exclaim when the Lord was born in the flesh, “Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace to men of good will;”2333 because “His yoke,” who was then born, “is easy, and
His burden light.” And as the Apostle saith, “God is faithful, who will not suffer us to be
tempted above that we are able to bear; but will with the temptation also make a way to es-
cape, that we may be able to bear it.”2334
2333 Luke ii. 14.
2334 1 Cor. x. 13.
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