Chap.3.Se6t.9 LogkJngunt61cftu. Book. IV. Part.3. 679 encourage to fufferings by being looked upon with the eyes of , faith. 1Vhmfore fering we tfrC 1:ompaf{ed about with fo great a cloud H~ b. 1 t. 1, t. ofwirnef{eJ, let P.4lay afide every weight , and the fin which doth Jo ~ eajily befet ,m, a;ld let UJ rtm,wi~h pt~t ience t.he race thflt u.Jet before m; looting unto 'fef 144 the Aut hour findjinifhe·uf ourfatth. The ApoiHe was to encourage the Hebrenn to hold on the well-begun profeffi on of faith in Chrift; and to that purpofe he fets before them two fights to keep them from fainting, I. eA cloudeof rritmf{es, the Saints in heaven ; on which cloude when he had. Hayed their eyes a wh ·le, and made them fit tor a clearer object he fcatters the cloude, and prefents the Sun ~f'righ t eoufneJTe, Chrift himfelfe and he wills them "-'P•eiv , to turne their eyes from it to him , loo~ing unto 'f efm , q. d. this fight is enough to make you run the race, and not to faint; why ,Jefus is gone before you,and will you not follow bim? 0 look unto 'fefm , and the very fight of him will draw you after him; Chrift crucified hath an :tttrad:ive . power, And I, if I be lifud .up, . will draw all men to me.- Joh.u.p. Thus of the caufes of our conformity ; we fee how i,t is wrought. . 3. For the !aft ~re, wha,t are the means of this conformity as on ourJ.>art ? I anfwer. I. -Go to the croffe ofJefus Chrift. It is not all our pui:'pofe,S, refo1utions, promifes, vows, covenants, endeavours, without this, that will effeR: our conformity to Chrifi in his fufferings and death ; no, no, this conformity is a fruit and effed: of the death· of Cbrift ; and therefore whofoever would have this work wrought in him, let him firfr have rccourfe to Chrifts -cro ffe, 0 go we more immediately to the cro!fe of Jefus . , 2. Look up to him that hangs upon it, contemplate the death· ofJefus Chrift, confider ferioufiy, and fadly his bitter, iliameful, paineful fufferings: much hath been faid, only here d:raw it into fome Epi tome : As , . r. Confider whp.be was. ;z. What he fuffered. 3. Why he fuffered, 4· For whom heJ 1fuffered . 5. For what end he fufferc:d. 6. With what minde he fuffered every one ofthefe will make fome difcoveries either of hisgraces' or ofhis gracious ad:ings in our behalfe and who can tell hoW" fa; · rhis very look. may work on us to cha~ge us and cransforme us into the very image ofJefus Chrift? ' 3· Let
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