10. But in order that we fall
not away from Continence, we ought to watch specially against those
snares of the suggestions of the devil, that we presume not of our
own strength. For, “Cursed is every one that setteth his hope in
man.”1838
And who is
he, but man? We cannot therefore truly say that he setteth not his
hope in man, who setteth it in himself. For this also, to “
live
after man,” what is it but to “
live after the
flesh?” Whoso
therefore is tempted by such a suggestion, let him hear, and, if he
have any Christian feeling, let him tremble. Let him hear, I say,
“If ye shall live after the flesh, ye shall die.”
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