A declaration of the true manner of knowing Christ crucified

Lastly, we must follow Christ in humility, whereof he is a wonderful spectacle, in that being God, he became man for us; and of a man became a worm that is trodden under foot, that he might save man, Philip. 2. 5. Let the same mind be in you that was in Jesus Christ, who being in the form of God, humbled himself and became obedient to the death, even to the death of the cross.

Lastly, we must follow Christ in humilitie, whereof he is a wonderfull spectacle, in that being God, he became man for vs; and of a man became a worme that is troaden vnder foote, that he might saue man, Philip. 2. 5. Let the same minde be in you that vvas in Iesus Christ, who beeing in the forme of God, humbled himselfe and became obedient to the death, euen to the death of the crosse.

And here we must observe, that the example of Christ hath something more in it than any other example hath or can have: for it doth not only show us what we ought to do (as the examples of other ⟨p. 19⟩men do) but it is a remedy against many vices, and a motive to many good duties. First of all the serious consideration of this, that the very son of God himself suffered all the pains and torments of hell on the cross for our sins, is the proper & most effectual means to stir up our hearts to a godly sorrow for them. And that this thing may come to pass, every man must be settled without doubt, that he was the man that crucified Christ; that he is to be blamed as well as Judas, Herod, Pontius Pilate, and the Jews: and that his sins were the nails, the spears, and the thorns that pierced him. When this meditation begins to take place, bitterness of spirit with wailing and mourning takes place in like manner. Zach. 12. v. 10. And they shall look upon him whom they have pierced, and they shall lament for him as one lamenteth for his only son. Peter in his first sermon struck the Jews as with a thunderclap from heaven, when he said unto them, Ye have crucified the Lord of glory, so as at the same time three thousand men were pricked in their hearts, and said, Men and brethren, What shall we do to be saved? Again, if Christ for our sins shed his heart blood: and if