A09388:0
A declaration of the true manner of knowing Christ crucified
Cambridge: printed by John Legate, 1596Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legate, 1596
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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TO THE READER.
IT is the common sin of men at this day, and that in the very places of learning, that Christ crucified is not known as he ought. The right knowledge of whom, is not to make often mention of his death and passion, and to call him our Saviour, or to handle the whole mystery of God incarnate soundly and learnedly, though that be a worthy gift of god: but first of all, by the consideration of the passion to be touched with an inward and a lively feeling of our sins, for which our Redeemer suffered the pangs of hell, and to grow to a through dislike of our selves and our lives past for them and from the ground of the heart to purpose a reformation and a conformity with Christ in all good duties that concern man: secondly in the Passion, as in a mirror, to behold and in beholding to labour to comprehend the length, the breadth, the height, the depth of the love of the father that gave his own dear son to death, and the ⟨image 3⟩goodness of the son that loved his enemies more then himself, that our hearts might be rooted and grounded in the same love, and be further inflamed to love God again.
IT is the common sinne of men at this day, and that in the very places of learning, that Christ crucified is not known as he ought. The right knowledge of whome, is not to make often mention of his death and passion, and to call him our Saviour, or to handle the whole mysterie of God incarnate soundly and learnedly, though that be a worthy gift of god: but first of all, by the consideration of the passion to be touched vvith an inward and a lively feeling of our sinnes, for which our Redeemer suffered the pangs of hell, and to grovv to a through dislike of our selves and our lives past for them and from the ground of the heart to purpose a reformation and a conformitie vvith Christ in all good duties that concerne man: secondly in the Passion, as in a myrrour, to behold and in beholding to labour to comprehend the length, the breadth, the height, the depth of the love of the father that gave his ovvne deare sonne to death, and the