A declaration of the true manner of knowing Christ crucified

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, Eph. 4. 24.

The second, is the vertue of Christs resurrection, which is also the power of his Godhead, wherby he raised himselfe from death to life: & the very same power serueth to raise those that belong to Christ, from their sinnes in this life, and from the graue in the day of the last iudgement. Now the knowledge of this double vertue ⟨p. 13⟩must not be onely speculative, that is, barely conceiued in the braine, but it must be experimental: because we ought to haue experience of it in our hearts and liues, and we should labour by all meanes possible to feele the power of Christs death killing & mortifying our sinnes, & the vertue of his resurrection in the putting of spirituall life into vs, that we might be able to say that we liue not but that Christ liues in vs. This was one of the most excellent and principall things which Paul sought for, who saith, I haue counted all things losse and doe iudge them to be dung, that I may know him and the vertue of his resurrection,