Heautonaparnumenos

that is, by this Virtue of Self-denial analyzed, ¹or reduced to Atoms? Our Saviour too, much to the same purpose, tells us, This is all the fruit of the Law and the Prophets, what? Self-denial? no, but one branch of it, Equanimity, to do as we would be done to. If that Virtue then were the Sum of the whole Old Test. what may we think of this Precept of Self-denial, that goes far beyond it, but that it is the Sum also of the New? And sure our Fore-fathers were all of the same Opinion, as appears by the Primitive, Constant, Necessary Form of Baptism; wherein we stipulate with God, to Deny the World, the Flesh, and the Devil; and that we may do so, manfully to fight under the Cross, which is, Christs Banner, wherein to continue Christs faithful Soldiers, and Servants to our lives end. So that as long as we live in the Church Militant, and that is even until we arrive unto the Church Triumphant, so long must we be Soldiers exercised in this spiritual Militia of self-denial, and the ⟨p. 9⟩Cross. If then this be to be Baptized into, & conformed unto, ²the death of Christ; if it be to arrive unto the Resurrection of the Dead, as it, no question, is^*, then this is the Prize of the High calling of God in Christ Jesus; that Mark which St. Paul did, and every true Christian ought, to propound unto himself in all his Actions.

that is, by this Vertue of Self-denyall analyz'd, ¹or reduc't to Atomes? Our Saviour too, much to the same purpose, tells us, This is all the fruit of the Law and the Prophets, what? Self-denyall? no, but one branch of it, Equanimity, to doe as we would be done to. If that Vertue then were the Summe of the whole Old Test. what may wee thinke of this Precept of Self-denyall, that goes farre beyond it, but that it is the Summe also of the New? And sure our Fore-fathers were all of the same Opinion, as appeares by the Primitive, Constant, Necessary Forme of Baptisme; wherein we stipulate with God, to Deny the World, the Flesh, and the Devill; and that wee may doe so, manfully to fight under the Crosse, which is, Christs Banner, wherein to continue Christs faithfull Souldiers, and Servants to our lives end. So that as long as we live in the Church Militant, and that is even untill we arrive unto the Church Triumphant, so long must we be Souldiers exercis'd in this spirituall Militia of self-denyall, and the