Of Se f Denial. 5 fey, which the laws of our religion oblige us S E R M. to deny. Again, St. Paul diflinguifhes thefe T. two contrary fprings of action, by the names of the law of the mind, and the law in the members, warring againft it : they both, in fome fenfe, operate like laws with fancy ions upon our hopes and fears of pleafure and pain ; but the former only, that of the mind, is the true law of our nature as well as of chriftianity: and the other, to be brought into fubjeétion, or its government to be denied. It is not neceffary to enumerate the particu- lars contain'd in this general head, the fèf; to be denied. Every man knows, for he is con - fcious of them, the appetites of his nature to fenfible obje&s, and which purfue the plea - fures of the external fenfes, they are in fome weaker, in force ftronger, even by their diffe- rent conflitutions ; but ail have them in force degree. We find likewife averfions to bodily pain and other outward uneafinefes of various forts, too many to be mention'd and we find impulfes of anger, a ftrong inclination, at- tended with vehement motions in the body, to repel violence offered or harm received from a voluntary invader; which is properly an animal inflind, for it is feen in beafis as well as in men, intended originally by the author of nature, B 3 for
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