1. Of unlawful self; it is two-fold: 1st, in religion; 2nd, in morality.--2. Of those that are most formal, superstitious, and pompous in worship.--3. God's rebuke of carnal apprehensions.--4. Christ drew off his disciples from the Jewish exterior worship, and instituted a more spiritual one.--5. Stephen is full and plain in this matter.--6. Paul refers the temple of God twice to man.--7. Of the cross of these worldly worshippers.--8. Flesh and blood make their cross, therefore cannot be crucified by it.--9. They are yokes without restraint.--10. Of the gaudiness of their cross, and their respect to it.--11. A recluse life no true gospel abnegation.--12. Comparison between Christ's self-denial and theirs: his leads to purity in the world, theirs to voluntary imprisonment, that they might not be tempted of the world. The mischief which that example, if followed, would do to the world. It destroys useful society and honest labour. A lazy life the usual refuge of idleness, poverty, and guilty age.--13. Of Christ's cross in this case. The impossibility that such an external application can remove an internal cause.--14. An exhortation to the men of this belief, not to deceive themselves. I. I am now come to unlawful self, which, more or less, is the immediate concern of much the greater part of mankind. This unlawful self is two-fold. First, that which relates to religious worship: secondly, that which concerns moral and civil conversation in the world. And they are both of infinite consequence to be considered by us. In which I shall be as brief as I may, with ease to my conscience, and no injury to the matter.