668 Book.lV. Part+ . .L,ooking unto !fe(us. Chap.J. Sed-.9 }obI, 1~. , I viledges of his precious death, oh then what manifold caufe of tbankfulneffe and praife .is here ? be enlarged 0 my foul, found fortb the praifes of thy Chrifi, tell all the world of that warmeft love ofChriil, which flowed with his blood out of all his wounds into thy fpirit; tune thy heart-firings aright , and keep confort with all the Angels of heaven, and all his Saints on earth; ling that Pfalme of 'fohn tbe Divine, unto him that fovec us, and wa(hed ns fro'rn our fisH in his own blood,and hath made ns Kings and Prie.fls unto God, and his Father, to him beglorJ and dominion for ever and ever. A.mm. ------· --~----·--- SECT. 9· Of conforming to 'je[lu in that rrfpeEt. 9· L. Et us conforme to Jefus in refpect of ·his fufferings and ' death, looking unto Jefus is effedive of this; ebjeds have an attraCtive power, that do affimulate, or make.like unto them, I have read ofa woman, that by fixing the firength of her imagimttion upon a Blackamore on the wall, fhe brought forth a black and fwarthy child. And no quefiion but there is a kinde of fpiri- ' tual imaginative of power in faith to be like to Chrift by looking on Chrift; come: then, and letuslookon Chrifl:, and ;;onforme to Chrifi in this refpeel:. In this particular I fhall examine thefe quxres ~ I. Wherein we muft conforme ! z. What is the caufe of this conformitie? 3. · What are the meanes of this conformity as on our parts? For the firfl: wherein we mull conforme? I anfwer . we muG: conforme to Chrift in his graces , fufferings : death. I. In the graces that mofr eminently fbi ned in his bitteJ,' pafiion ; his life indeed was a gracious life, be was full ofgrace, and , of his fuinefJe have all we received, andgrace for grae, but his graces fbi ned moft clearly and brightly at his death ; as a lilly a- . mongtl the thornes feems moft beautiful, fo his graces in his , · fuffcr-
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