not sincerely endeavour to submit it in spite of the reluctancy of flesh? Gal. 5:17. 2. Where is the Christian self-denial and taking up of the cross, without submitting to the crook? This is the first lesson Christ puts in the hands of his disciples, Matth. 16:24. “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” Self-denial would procure a reconciliation with the crook, and an admittance of the cross: but while we cannot bear our corrupt self to be denied