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For our wills and affections; we should be ready to cross and bend them against all the noise of corrupt delights; to pluck out our right eye, cut off our right hand; to be crucified to the world; to be disposed of by God’s providence, cheerfully in any course, whether of passive obedience to have a mind submitting unto it, and rejoicing in it; or of active obedience to obey him, contrary to the stream and current of our natural desires; though it be to offer unto him our Isaac, our closest and choicest affection; though to shake off the child that hangeth about our neck, to stop our ear to the voice of her that bare us, to throw the wife out of our bosom, when they shall tempt us to neglect God, to spit out the sweetest sin that lies under our tongue; briefly, to take under Christ’s banners the Roman oath, to go and do where and whatsoever our great captain commanded; neither for fear of death, or dread of enemy, to forsake service, or resign weapon till death shall extort it.
Edward Reynolds, Meditations on the Holy Sacrament of the Lord’s Last Supper (1638) in The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, D.D., ed. Alexander Chalmers (6 vols, London, 1826), iii, 58.
For our wills and affections; we should be ready to cross and bend them against all the noise of corrupt delights; to pluck out our right eye, cut off our right hand; to be crucified to the world; to be disposed of by God’s providence, cheerfully in any course, whether of passive obedience to have a mind submitting unto it, and rejoicing in it; or of active obedience to obey him, contrary to the stream and current of our natural desires; though it be to offer unto him our Isaac, our closest and choicest affection; though to shake off the child that hangeth about our neck, to stop our ear to the voice of her that bare us, to throw the wife out of our bosom, when they shall tempt us to neglect God, to spit out the sweetest sin that lies under our tongue; briefly, to take under Christ’s banners the Roman oath, to go and do where and whatsoever our great captain commanded; neither for fear of death, or dread of enemy, to forsake service, or resign weapon till death shall extort it.
Edward Reynolds, Meditations on the Holy Sacrament of the Lord’s Last Supper (1638) in The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, D.D., ed. Alexander Chalmers (6 vols, London, 1826), iii, 58.
