Note B.--'We need to know two things: 1. That our salvation consists wholly in being saved from _ourselves_, or that which we are by nature; 2. That in the whole nature of things nothing could be this salvation or saviour to us but such a humility of God as is beyond all expression. Hence the first unalterable term of the Saviour to fallen man: Except a man denies _himself,_ he cannot be My disciple. Self is the whole evil of fallen nature; self-denial is our capacity of being saved; humility is our saviour. ..._Self_ is the root, the branches, the tree, of all the evil of our fallen state. All the evils of fallen angels and men have their birth in the pride of self. On the other hand, all the virtues of the heavenly life are the virtues of humility. It is humility alone that makes the unpassable gulf between heaven and hell. What is then, or in what lies, the great struggle for eternal life? It all lies in the strife between _pride_ and humility: pride and _humility_ are the two master powers, the two kingdoms in strife for the eternal possession of man. There never was, nor ever will be, but one humility, and that is the one humility of Christ. Pride and self have the all of man, till man has his all from Christ. He therefore only fights the good fight whose strife is that the self-idolatrous nature which he hath from Adam may be brought to death by the supernatural humility of Christ brought to life in him.'--W. Law, _Address to the Clergy,_ p. 52. [I hope that this book of Law on the Holy Spirit may be issued by my publisher in the course of the year.] Note C--'To die to self, or come from under its power, is not, cannot be done, by any active resistance we can make to it by the powers of nature. The one true way of dying to self is the way of _patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God._ This is the truth and perfection of dying to self. ...For if I ask you what the Lamb of God means, must you not tell me that it is and means the perfection of _patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God?_ Must you not therefore say that a desire and faith of these virtues is an application to Christ, is a giving up yourself to Him and the perfection of faith in Him? And then, because this inclination of your heart to sink down in _patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God,_ is truly giving up all that you are and all that you have from fallen Adam, it is perfectly leaving all you have to follow Christ; it is your highest act of faith in Him. Christ is nowhere but in these virtues; when they are there, He is in His own kingdom. Let this be the Christ you follow. 'The Spirit of divine love can have no birth in any fallen creature, till it wills and chooses to be dead to all self, in a _patient, humble resignation_ to the power and mercy of God.