charge your soul with your sin

"You will say, this is a strange way for a man or woman to get ease to their condition, to lay a greater burden upon them when they are already burdened? You think there is no other way, when you are afflicted, but to be jolly and merry, and get into company. Oh no, you are deceived, your burden will come again. Alas, this is a poor way to get one's spirit quieted; poor man, the burden will be upon him again. If you would have your burden light, get alone and examine your heart for your sin, and charge your soul with your sin..."

"...if you so fall to bemoaning your sin before the Lord, you shall quickly find the burden of your affliction to be lighter than it was before."

From The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, by Jeremiah Burroughs.