A declaration of the true manner of knowing Christ crucified

Thus much of the merit of Christ crucified. Now follows his virtue, which is the power of his Godhead, whereby he creates new hearts in all them that believe in him, and makes them new creatures. This virtue is double: the first is, the power of his death, whereby he freed himself from the punishment and imputation of our sins; and the same virtue serveth to mortify and crucify the corruptions of our minds, wills, affections, even as a corrosive doth wast & consume the rotten & dead flesh in any part of mans body.

Thus much of the merit of Christ crucified. Now followes his vertue, which is the power of his Godhead, whereby he creates new hearts in all them that beleeue in him, and makes them new creatures. This vertue is double: the first is, the power of his death, wherby he freed himself from the punishment and imputation of our sinnes; and the same vertue serueth to mortifie and crucifie the corruptions of our minds, wills, affectiōs, euē as a corasive doth wast & consume the rottē & dead flesh in any part of mans body.

The second, is the virtue of Christs resurrection, which is also the power of his Godhead, whereby he raised himself from death to life: & the very same power serveth to raise those that belong to Christ, from their sins in this life, and from the grave in the day of the last judgement. Now the knowledge of this double virtue ⟨p. 13⟩must not be only speculative, that is, barely conceived in the brain, but it must be experimental: because we ought to have experience of it in our hearts and lives, and we should labour by all means possible to feel the power of Christs death killing & mortifying our sins, & the virtue of his resurrection in the putting of spiritual life into us, that we might be able to say that we live not but that Christ lives in us. This was one of the most excellent and principal things which Paul sought for, who saith, I have counted all things loss and do judge them to be dung, that I may know him and the virtue of his resurrection, Phil. 3. 10. And he saith that this is the right way to know and learn Christ, to cast off the old man which is corrupt through deceivable lusts, and to put on the new man which is created in righteous and true holiness,