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"... For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but be that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting."--Galatians vi. 8.
" Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth."Col. iii. 5.
"Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat, because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth into life, and few there be that find it."-Matt. VI. 13-14.
"Woe onto you that are fulll for ye shall hunger."-Luke vi. 25.
"Blessed are ye that hunger now; for ye shall be filled."Luke vi. 21.
"... if any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."-Matt. xvi. 24.
" If any man come to me and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."-Irake xiv. 26.
" The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not whereto lay his head."—Matt. riii. 20.
“In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness."-2 Cor. xi. 27.
"... there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake.”—Matt. xis. 12.
"... it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."Matt. xix. 24.
"But God is impassible, free of anger, destitute of desire."(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. xii. p. 210.
"We must therefore rescue the Gnostic and perfect man fron all passions of the soul. For Knowledge produces practice and proc. tice habit or disposition; and such a state as this produces impassibi. lity, not moderation of passion. And the complete eradication of desire reaps as its fruits impassibility. But the Gnostic does not share ... in those affections that are commonly celebrated as good, that is the good things of the affection that are alike to the pas. sions; ..."-(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. xii. p. 346.
