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The great corruption of subtle self, discovered, and driven from it's lurking-places and starting-holes…The great corruption of subtile self, discovered, and driven from it's lurking-places and starting-holes…
The great corruption of subtle self, discovered, and driven from it's lurking-places and starting-holes And the contrary grace, self-denial commended, as an indispensably necessary requisite to the acceptable and successful performance of all commanded-duties, and as notably fitting for taking up of the cross, and following Christ. In seven sermons. By master James Durham, late minister of the gospel in Glasgow.The great corruption of subtile self, discovered, and driven from it's lurking-places and starting-holes And the contrary grace, self-denyal commended, as an indispensably necessary requisite to the acceptable and successfull performance of all commanded-duties, and as notably fitting for taking up of the cross, and following Christ. In seven sermons. By master James Durham, late minister of the gospel in Glasgow.
Edinburgh: printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, 1686
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SERMON I.
Matth. 16.24. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his Cross and follow me.
These Words contain a main and most profitable point of Doctrine, which our blessed Lord Jesus taught his Disciples before his suffering; he had been telling them, that he was to go up to Jerusalem, and what things he was to meet with, and suffer there; This discourse had a very strange-like aspect upon them, they could not away with it, nor digest it, that their Lord and Master should suffer, and be thus reproachfully dealt with; Peter therefore rashly, and inconsiderately takes him aside, and presumptuously arrogates to himself, the liberty to rebuke him, and to offer him (as he for the time thought) a more safe advice; Be it far from thee, Lord (sayeth he) this shall not be unto thee; he will by no means have him go to Jerusalem, as judging it un••fe and unseasonable at such a time; for which presumption, (as having a tendency to defeat the grand design of his coming into the World, to Peters own & the unspeakably great prejudice of many others;) after the Lord had rebuked him sharply, even at a higher rate of severity, than he did for his thrice denying him; he doth on this occasion, deliver a general Doctrine concerning the necessity of their, and of all his Disciples,