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…

So that the world had no more power to tempt him, than a dead man hanging on a Cross would have had. A 3d. Phrase we have, in the example of Levi, Deut. 33.9. Who said unto his father and mother, I have not seen him, neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children; In executing Justice, at Gods command, he did it as impartially, and Self-denyedly, as if he had never seen Father nor Mother, Brethren nor Children, or as if he had been under no obligation, or tie of respect, by virtue of such near and dear Relations The 4th and last Phrase, we have in the person & example of David, Psal. 131. v. 2. I have (saith he) behaved and quitted my self as a child that is weaned of his ⟨p. 108⟩Mother, my soul is even as a weaned child; Importing, That he had no sort of allowed inordinate purpose, project, or design in the world for himself, no more, in a manner, than a Child, but just now weaned from his Mother hath any project at all; but was ready to take off Gods hand, whatever he was pleased to dispense, and carve out to him; and that he was not swayed by any particular allowed inordinate respect to himself, or by any finistruous selfie design, but wa• lying before the Lord, ready to receive, and take on any impression, that he should please to put on him. If now we lay these three together, we will in a good measure see, and understand, what Self-denial, or a Self-denied Person is, and what is called for from a man that would deny himself in following of Christ; it's even to endeavour to be as single, as if he had not a Self, and that he be denied to all inordinate respects to, and considerations, dead in a manner, to all undue Self-love, Self-pleasure, Self-advantage, Self-estimation, Self-design, Self-confidence, and the like.

So that the world had no more power to tempt him, than a dead man hanging on a Cross would have had. A 3d. Phrase we have, in the example of Levi, Deut. 33.9. Who said unto his father and mother, I have not seen him, neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children; In executing Justice, at Gods command, he did it as impartially, and Self-denyedly, as if he had never seen Father nor Mother, Brethren nor Children, or as if he had been under no obligation, or tye of respect, by vertue of such near and dear Relations The 4th and last Phrase, we have in the person & example of David,