Finally, to deny one's self is to renounce one's own will.... Hence, the true disciple of Christ, renouncing his own will, follows the desires of God. Behold Christ, thy Savior; in the agony of His awful passion He lays His own will on the altar as a most pleasing sacrifice unto God; and so do thou offer up thine own will unto God, and thou shalt indeed accomplish that which Christ requires of thee as a disciple, the denial of thine own self. May Thy holy will, O Lord, be done on earth as it is in heaven. - Johann Gerhard, *Sacred Meditations* XXXI.
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