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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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We spoke somewhat of taking up the Cross, as it holds forth the case that Christs followers are in, ordinarily in the World, and it is to have the Cross, some one sad affliction, or another, ⟨p. 147⟩where we considered it, as a Duty that they are called to; being commanded to take it up, when they meet with it, not to shift it, but to stoop pleasantly to the taking of it on, and to bear it cheerfully after him; Now ere we come to speak of the Uses, that Christ aims at in all this; we would take notice of that word •ast in, not sure •y guess, but purposely, His Cross; whereby it •eems, he puts a difference betwixt the common afflictions of all, and the more particular afflictions of this and that Believer; as if he had said, it is not enough, that Believers should submit to afflictions in common, but they must submit to •hese particular afflictions that are theirs, or shaped out to them in particular, this, and that, and •he other; every Believer hath his own particular affliction, or cross, beside that which is common to all, which he is called to submit unto and take on, Whence Observe, That these who would follow Christ aright, must not pitch upon wail, or make choice of their own Cross, but submit unto that Cross that is particularly carved out for them, and allotted to them; Which leads us to touch on these two things; one whereof is, that beside the lot which all Believers have in common, under public calamities, every Believer, and Follower of Christ hath his own Cross, particularly shaped out for him; whether it be a distinct particular Cross, or that which is common and public but accompanied with some peculiar circumstances, in reference to him; The other is, That the Believer in Jesus Christ, should welcome the Cross, as it is circumstantiated to him, and as it is his particular Cross; we need not speak of the first of these distinctly by it ⟨p. 148⟩self, it being obviously implied in the Second Our Lords words are clear to this purpose, Matth 23.4. Behold, I send unto you wise men, and Prophets, and some of them ye shall kill, and crucify some of them ye shall scourge in your Synagogues and persecute them from city to city; Where he speaks of several sorts of Crosses, that men approven of God shall meet with, and which the must take up, and carry after him, as he is pleased to carve them out to them;