the occasion of this excellent lesson, which Christ by this means hath for ever consigned to the use and profit of the church—‘If any man will come after me, let him deny himself.’ I shall a little open the words. Christ saith, ‘If any man,’ to show that the duty is of an unlimited concernment; it involveth all, whosoever will enter themselves in Christ’s school, or list themselves in his flock or company; it doth not only concern a few which are called out to be champions for his cause, and to expose