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Heautonaparnumenos
Heautonaparnumenos: or A treatise of self-denial. Intended for the pulpit; but now committed to the press for the public benefit.Heautonaparnumenos: or A treatise of self-denyall. Intended for the pulpit; but now committed to the presse for the publike benefit.
London: printed by W. Wilson for Richard Royston, 1646
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
From this Contrariety it comes, that every one, that in any measure follows Christ, feels a manifest conflict in himself, between Christ and Himself, the Old Man and the New; the Flesh and the Spirit; the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent, drawing contrary ways in him.1 Hence it is, Christ tells us, He came to send 2not Peace on Earth, but the Sword: What Sword? that devouring Sword of War, to master every one that is our weaker? God forbid we should once think it: No, but the Sword of the Word of the Spirit, 3to fight against our Lusts that make an irreconcilable War in our Members. For our Lusts like Sturdy Beggars, if Christ Deny them in us, fight straight, and there begins the fray.
From this Contrariety it comes, that every one, that in any measure followes Christ, feeles a manifest conftict in himselfe, between Christ and Himselfe, the Old Man and the New; the Flesh and the Spirit; the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent, drawing contrary wayes in him.1 Hence it is, Christ tells us, He came to send 2not Peace on Earth, but the Sword: What Sword? that devouring Sword of Warre, to master every one that is our weaker? God forbid we should once thinke it: No, but the Sword of the Word of the Spirit, 3to fight against our Lusts that make an irreconcileable War in our Members. For our Lusts like Sturdy Beggers, if Christ Deny them in us, fight straight, and there begins the fray.