Excerpt from Sermons, Vol. 2 of 2 And every man that Striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. The text is a comparison between the worldly combatant and the spiritual, - between the wrestler of this world and the wrestler with it, - between him that strives for the "mastery" over others, and him that strives for the "mastery" over himself, - between the contenders in the Olympic games and the contender in the Christian race. And it is an apt and fit comparison. Olympus in the heathen poets is commonly used for heaven; so the Olympic exercises may well be used to resemble those for heaven, and the heavenly crown likened to the Olympic garland, without any offence, though with all advantage. And it is as seasonable as fit. This holy time of Lent is a time of striving for the "mastery" with our corruptions, with our "corruptible" for God's "incorruptible;" a time of holy exercises upon the "corruptible " earth to obtain a crown "incorruptible" in the heavens.

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