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Bernard would have us never to let go out of our minds, the thoughts of a crucified Christ, Let these says he, be meat and drink unto you, let them be your sweetness and consolation, your honey and your desire, your reading and your meditation, your contemplation, your life, death and resurrection: Would you learn obedience? would you learn contempt of honours? would you see the highest patience? set a suffering Christ before you: Sureus reports of a noble Earl Elzearius, when his wife wondered at his exceeding patience under fore afflictions, he answers her thus, What good will it be to be angry and impatient? certainly none at all: but I will open my heart unto you; you know sometimes my heart is ready to rise with indignation against such as wrong ¹me, but I presently turn me to the thoughts of the wrongs offered to Christ, and I say thus to my self, desiring to imitate him, Although my servants should pull my beard, and strike me on the face, these were nothing to those which thy Lord suffered, he suffered more and greater things; and know assuredly, says he to his wife, I never leave off thinking of the wrongs my Saviour endured, till my mind be still and quiet. He that is afraid to suffer, cannot be his disciple who suffered so much, says Tertullian^*.

Bernard would have us never to let go out of our mindes, the thoughts of a crucified Christ, Let these says he, be meat and drink unto you, let them be your sweetness and consolation, your honey and your desire, your reading and your meditation, your contemplation, your life, death and resurrection: Would you learn obedience? would you learn contempt of honors? would you see the highest patience? set a suffering Christ before you: Sureus reports of a noble Earl Elzearius, when his wife wondred at his exceeding patience under fore afflictions, he answers her thus, What good will it be to be angry and impatient? certainly none at all: but I will open my heart unto you; you know sometimes my heart is ready to rise with indignation against such as wrong ¹me, but I presently turn me to the thoughts of the wrongs offered to Christ, and I say thus to my self, desiring to imitate him, Although my servants should pull my beard, and strike me on the face, these were nothing to those which thy Lord suffered, he suffered more and greater things; and know assuredly, says he to his wife, I never leave off thinking of the wrongs my Savior endured, till my minde be still and quiet. He that is afraid to suffer, cannot be his disciple who suffered so much, says Tertullian