The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…

Lastly, seeing the Son of God is the Passover, yea our Passover, and Sacrifice for us, we should therefore purge out the old Leaven, that we may be a new lump, and should therefore keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth; if Christ suffered for us, then our life should be a continual feast; yea in as much as he was offered up as an immaculate Lamb, and is tendered to us as the food of our souls in the Word and Sacraments, therefore we should spend our life as if it were a continual Passover: and so we must put away leaven, even the old leaven of such corruptions as we lived in, and in particular, the leaven of malice, and keep this feast in the unleavened bread of sound sincerity of life and truth in all holiness without hypocrisy. Thus of the third point.

Lastly, seeing the Sonne of God is the Passeouer, yea our Passeouer, and Sacrifice for vs, we should therefore purge out the old Leauen, that we may be a new lumpe, and should therefore keepe the feast, not with old leauen, neither with the leauen of malice and wickednesse, but with the vnleauened bread of sinceritie and truth; if Christ suffered for vs, then our life should be a continuall feast; yea in as much as he was offered vp as an immaculate Lambe, and is tendered to vs as the food of our soules in the Word and Sacraments, therefore we should spend our life as if it were a continuall Passeouer: and so we must put away leauen, euen the old leauen of such corruptions as we liued in, and in particular, the leauen of malice, and keepe this feast in the vnleauened bread of sound sinceritie of life and truth in all holinesse without hypocrisie. Thus of the third point.

The fourth point is, why it was needful that Jesus Christ the Son of God should suffer? and for answer thereunto we must know that he did not suffer casually, but by divine providence, so as nothing befell him in the least thing, which was not seen to be necessary for our redemption: that God that doth all things by measure in afflicting his servants, doth much more exactly look to the pouring out and filling of the cup he did give his own Son, so as not a drop could light into it, without especial reason and sound consideration. Now there be many impulsive causes, or reasons given in Scripture why Christ must suffer: as