A Body of Practical Divinity

2. Be like Christ in Grace. He was like us in having our Flesh, let us be like him in having his Grace. In three Graces we should labour to be like Christ. 1. In Humility. Phil. 2.8. [Greek or Hebrew], he humbled himself; he left the bright Robes of his Glory to be clothed with the Rags of our Humanity. A wonder of Humility! Let us be like Christ in this Grace. Humility, saith St. Bernard, is contemptus propriae excellentiae, a contempt of Self-excellency, a kind of Self-annihilation. This is the glory of a Christian. We are never so comely in God's Eyes, as when we are black in our own. In this let us be like Christ. True Religion is [Greek or Hebrew], Greg. to imitate Christ. And indeed, what cause have we to be humble, if we look within us, about us, below us, above us.

2. Be like Christ in Grace. He was like us in having our Flesh, let us be like him in having his Grace. In three Graces we should labour to be like Christ. 1. In Humility. Phil. 2.8. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, he humbled himself; he left the bright Robes of his Glory to be clothed with the Rags of our Humanity. A wonder of Humility! Let us be like Christ in this Grace. Humility, saith St. Bernard, is contemptus propriae excellentiae, a contempt of Self-excellency, a kind of Self-annihilation. This is the glory of a Christian. We are never so comely in God's Eyes, as when we are black in our own. In this let us be like Christ. True Religion is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Greg. to imitate Christ. And indeed, what cause have we to be humble, if we look within us, about us, below us, above us.

(1.) If we look intra nos, within us: Here we see our sins represented to us in the Glass of Conscience, Lust, Envy, Passion. Our sins are like Vermin crawling in our Souls,