See here, 1. Whence those difficulties arise which men pretend to meet
with in the way of their duty, and to be insuperable; they arise not
from any thing in the nature of the duty, but from the slothfulness of
those that have really no mind to it. Those that have no heart to their
work pretend that their way is hedged up with thorns, and they cannot
do their work at all (as if God were a hard Master, reaping where he
had not sown), at least that their way is strewed with thorns, that
they cannot do their work without a great deal of hardship and danger;
and therefore they go about it with as much reluctance as if they were
to go barefoot through a thorny hedge. 2. How these imaginary
difficulties may be conquered. An honest desire and endeavour to do our
duty will, by the grace of God, make it easy, and we shall find it
strewed with roses: The way of the righteous is made plain; it is easy
to be trodden and not rough, easy to be found, and not intricate.