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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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John the Baptist did not Suffer fo• the Gospel, or for any great Gospel-Truth strictly taken, but for a reproof given to Herod, for saying, that it was not lawful for him to have his brothers wife, for bearing witness to a point of truth concerning what was moral; and yet doubtless he was a sharer of Christs Sufferings in that particular; There is not in some respect, a more and a less in the matter of Duty, and in the matter of Truth, or in respect of Suffering on the account of, or for Truth; but if it be indeed Duty, or Truth, it is to be Suffered for, and is as w•ll approven of God, and hath a comfortable Out gate, as well as Suffering for that, which simply considered, is of far greater moment, and this comparatively but of little; This is clear in the example of Moses ⟨p. 156⟩who would not leave a hove behind him; […] Daniel, who would not shut his windows; an• in Mordecai, who would not bow the knee […] Haman; all which many would have thought w• little to be stuck at, and far less to hazard all o• yet having found these things to be Duties t• which they were in Conscience obliged, the• discerned no such distinction in the command […] God, betwixt less and more, in the matter o• Duty, so as to allow them to abandon, and d• ny the lesser more than the greater; nothing […] too little to suffer for, that God has commanded 3ly. It is not only Christs Cross, when we Suffe• immediately for duty to him; but also, whe• we Suffer for Duty to men, if it be commanded by him; Suffering for a Duty of the Second Table of the Law, is Suffering for Christ, as we•• as Suffering for Duties of the First Table; an• not, as many think, that it is only Suffering for Christ, when it relates to Duties of the first Table; A Christian Child, no doubt, may Suffer, for performing, or for not neglecting Duty to his Father, and so for Christ; and the Apostle speaking to Christian Servants,