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Eleventhly, that which God aims at in the afflictions of his people, is to make them conformable to Christ their head, that they may enter into their glory, as Christ did into his. Ought he not to suffer these things, and so to enter into his glory? Luke 24. 26. We read of S. Paul, Phil. 3. 10. that he earnestly desired to be partaker of the fellowship of Christs sufferings, and to be conformable to his death; God will have a conformity to the death of his Son. We read of Godfrey of Bulloin, that he would not be crowned in Jerusalem with a crown of gold, where Christ was crowned with a crown of thorns; because he would not have such a great disproportion between him and Christ. It is reported of Origen, when Alexander Severus the Emperor sent for him, he appearing to be meanly clothed, there were divers costly garments prepared for him, and sent to him, but he refused them, and when he came near to Rome, there was a Mule and a Chariot sent for him, that he might choose which liked him best, but he refused them likewise, and would not go in pomp to the Emperor, saying, He was less then his Master Christ, of whom he never read that he rode but once.

Eleventhly, that which God ayms at in the afflictions of his people, is to make them conformable to Christ their head, that they may enter into their glory, as Christ did into his. Ought he not to suffer these things, and so to enter into his glory? Luke 24. 26. We read of S. Paul, Phil. 3. 10. that he earnestly desired to be partaker of the fellowship of Christs sufferings, and to be conformable to his death; God will have a conformity to the death of his Son. We read of Godfrey of Bulloin, that he would not be crowned in Jerusalem with a crown of gold, where Christ was crowned with a crown of thorns; because he would not have such a great disproportion between him and Christ. It is reported of Origen, when Alexander Severus the Emperor sent for him, he appearing to be meanly cloathed, there were divers costly garments prepared for him, and sent to him, but he refused them, and when he came near to Rome, there was a Mule and a Chariot sent for him, that he might choose which liked him best, but he refused them likewise, and would not go in pomp to the Emperor, saying, He was less then his Master Christ, of whom he never read that he rode but once.