Chap.3.Setl.9 1 Looking rmtoJefm. BooiiV,Parr.3 673 portion our fufferings to the meafure of lhength which he hath givenwr. 5· Hisfpirittodrawinthe fameyoakewithus, and to hold us under all fufferings that ·we finke not. 6. His graces to be more glorious by our fuffering~,as a torch wheo it is lhaken, {hines the brighter. 7 Hi> crown to reward our fufferings,. when we £ball have tailed O!Jr meafure of them. "For our fight tr{fiiCfion,which is b:Jt for 4 momen_t, wor~eth for US II far more rxceeding and eternal wnght of g!eJy. 0 my foul! fiudy this conformity, and be content with thy portion ; yea comfort thy felfe in this condition of fufferings; mull: we not drinkf ofour Saviours cup? what, not of our Mailers own cup? we reade of (jodfrry of Brdtein, that he would not be crowned in {erufalem with a crown ofgold, where Chnfi was crowned with a crown of rhornes,becaefe he would not have fuch a great difproportion betwixt him and Chrift; and we reade of Orit,en, that when eA!ocander Severm the Emperour fent for him to Rome, and that he might take his choyce, whether he would ride thither op a mule or in a chariot, that he refufed them both, fa'ying, he was lt{[e than his cMafler Chrifl, ofwhom l~e never read that he rode lmt ona. 0 the fufferings Chrift endured! he was called a wine-bibber, a Samaritane~ a devil; he was pur- · fued, entrapped, fnared,flaine; And fure!y they that will live god- 1 Tfcn,3 Jl. I] in Chrijf {e[m muff [uffer perfmttion. Never wonder that thou art hated ofmen, or perfecuted ofmen ; why, I teM thee,if Cbrifl himfelfe were now amongfi us in the forme and falhion of a fervant, in that very condition thlt fometimes he was, and !hould convince men of their wickednefle as fearchingly as [ornetimes he did, I verily think he would be the mofi hated mao in all the world. It's plaine enough what carnal men would do , by ~hefe very doings of the carnall Je»es. 3. We mufr conforme to Chriff in his death, carrying in us a rcfemblance and reprefentation of his death. But what death is this? I anfwer in a word, a death unto Ji~, fo the Apofile, in that Ro~1 i t'!'•. 1 o~u.; he dyed, he dyed Jmto fin; --- lik_twife reckonye your/elvn to be Rom,6, 5• dead indee.dunto fin. There Is a likeneffe betwixt ( hrifis dearh and our death in this ,refpeer, we 111re planted together in the Jik.f~ mffe of his death, True mortification carryes a fimilitude, a likenefs; a refembla-nce of the death of (britt As for infiance. R rr r * r. Chriil:s . -
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