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…

But now we come to the 2d. Thing, viz. That this Corruption of Selfiness is even in, and amongst Believers, and the honest followers of Christ: I shall confirm it from these grounds. ⟨p. 31⟩1. From the remainder of corrupt nature that is •et in Christs followers, or Believers, for even •hey themselves have much of unrenewed nature […] them; and in as far as they are unrenewed, •hey cannot but seek themselves in some respect, •nd in some measure, as well as others, and •ave much of this Corruption in them; the Apostle 2 Cor. 5.15. says, They that live, should •ot henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him that died for them; Supposing that before, to wit, while they were spiritually dead, there was a living to themselves wholly; and that now after they were made to l•ve Spiritually, yet in as far as they were unrenewed, there was also a living to themselves. 2ly. The many warnings, and directions given to Believers, to guard against this sin, plainly say, and prove, that there is such a Corruption in, and amongst them; ye see here, that Christ speaking even to his own Disciples, calls them to study Self-denial, and Rom. 12.3. The Apostle presses, That no man think of himself above that which is meet. 3ly. The many reproofs given to Godly men for falling in this sin, proves that there is something of it, in, and amongst them: It's the great thing the Lord reproves in Jonah, who was selfily (to speak so) displeased and angry, both at the Lords sparing of Nineveh, and at the withering of the Gourd, Chap 4. So that the Lord says to him, Does thou well to be angry Jonah? We see also the Lord reproves this sin in Baruch, Jerem. 45.5. Seekest thou great things for thy self? seek them not: And the sad check that Christ giveth Peter here, when he says to him, Get thee behind me, Satan, is a very ⟨p. 32⟩