48 THE TREATISES OF CYPRIAN. be trodden under foot with spiritualvigour,lest,while we areturned back again to the conversationof the old man, we be entangledin deadlysnares,even as the apostle,with fore sightand wholesomeness,forewarned us of thisvery thing, and said: "Therefore, brethren,let us not liveafterthe flesh; forifye liveafterthe flesh,ye shallbegin to die; but if ye,through the Spirit,mortifythe deedsof the flesh,ye shalllive. For as many as areledby the Spiritof God they arethe sonsof God." 1 If we are the sonsof God, ifwe are alreadybeginningto be His temples,if,having receivedthe Holy Spirit,we arelivingholilyand spiritually,ifwe have raisedour eyes from earth to heaven,ifwe have liftedour hearts,filledwith God and Christ,tothingsabove and divine, letus do nothingbut what isworthy of God and Christ,even as the apostlearousesand exhortsus,saying: " If ye be risen with Christ,seekthosethingswhich are above,where Christ issittingat the righthand of God ; occupy your minds with things that are above,not with things which are upon the earth. For ye are dead,and your lifeis hid with Christ in God. But when Christ,who is your life,shallappear,then shallye alsoappear with Him in glory."2 Let us,then,who in baptism have both diedand been buried in respectof the carnalsinsof the old man, who have risenagainwith Christ in the heavenly regeneration,both think upon and do the things which are Christ's,even as the same apostleagain teachesand counsels,saying: " The firstman isof the dust of the earth; the secondman isfrom heaven. Such as he is from the earth,such alsoare they who are from the earth; and such as he the heavenlyis,such alsoare they who are heavenly. As we have borne the image of him who isof the earth,letus alsobeartheimage of Him who isfrom heaven."* But we cannot bear the heavenlyimage,unlessin that<S>ndi- tionwherein we have alreadybegun to be,we show forththe likenessof Christ. 15. For thisisto change what you had been,and to begin to be what you were not,that the divinebirthmight shine forthin you, thatthe godly disciplinemight respondto God, 1Rom. viii.12-14. 8 Col.iii.1-4. 3 1 Cor.xv.47-49.