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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09388	A declaration of the true manner of knowing Christ crucified	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1596 (1596)	STC 19685; ESTC S114522	18,203	44

by the sworde of the spirit wound it euē to death This being don we must yet goe further and labour by experience to see and feele the very death of it and to lay it as it were in a graue neuer to rise againe and therefore we should daily cast new mouldes vpon it The third is a spirituall resurrection whereby we should by Gods grace vse meanes that wee may euery day more and more come out of our sinnes as out of a loathsome graue to liue vnto God in newnes of life as Christ rose from his graue And because it is an hard matter for a man to come out of the graue or rather dungeon of his sinnes this worke can not be done at once but by degrees as God shall giue grace Considering we lie by nature dead in our sinns and stinke in them as loathsome carrion first we must beginne to stirre our selues as a man that comes out of a sowne awakened by the word and voice of Christ sounding in our deafe eares secondly we must raise vp our mindes to a better state and condition as we vse to raise vp our bodies after this we must put out of the graue first one hand then the other This done we must doe our indeauour as it were vpon our knees at the least to put one foote out of this sepulchre of sinne the rather when we see our selues to haue one foote of the bodie in the graue of the earth that in the day of iudgement we may be wholly deliuered from all bonds of corruption The fourth part is a spirituall ascension into heauen by a continuall elevation of the heart and minde to Christ sitting at the right hand of the father as Paul saith Haue your conuersation in heauen and If ye be risen vvith Christ seeke things that are above Conformitie in morall duties is either generall or speciall Generall is to be holy as he is holy Rom. 8. 29. Those whome he knew before he hath predestinate to be like the image of his sonne that is not onely in the crosse but also in holines and glorie 1. Ioh. 3. He vvhich hath this hope purifieth himselfe euen as he is pure Speciall conformitie is chiefly in foure vertues Faith Love Meekenesse Humilitie Wee must be like him in faith For as he when hee apprehended the wrath of God and the very pangs of hell were vpon him wholly staide himselfe vpon the ayde helpe protection and good pleasure of his father euen to the last so must wee by a true and liuely faith depend wholly on Gods mercie in Christ as it were with both our handes in peace in trouble in life and in the very pang of death and we must not in any wise let our holde goe no though we should feele our selues descend to hell We must be like him in meekenesse Matth. 11. v. 28. Learne of me that I am meeke and lovvly His meekenesse shewed it selfe in the patient bearing of all iniuries and abuses offered by the hands of sinnefull and wretched men and in the suffering of the curse of the lawe without grudging or repining and with submission to his fathers will in all things Now the more we follow him herein the more shall we be conformable to him in his death and passion Philip. 3. 10. Thirdly he must be our example in love he loued his enemies more then himselfe Eph. 5. 4. Walke in love even as Christ loued vs and hath giuen himselfe for vs an oblation and sacrifice of svveete smelling savour vnto God The like loue ought we to shew by doing seruice to all men in the compasse of our callings and by beeing all things to all men as Paul was that we might doe them all the good wee can both for bodie and soule 1. Cor. 9. 19. Lastly we must follow Christ in humilitie whereof he is a wonderfull spectacle in that being God he became man for vs and of a man became a worme that is troaden vnder foote that he might saue man Philip. 2. 5. Let the same minde be in you that vvas in Iesus Christ who beeing in the forme of God humbled himselfe and became obedient to the death euen to the death of the crosse And here we must obserue that the example of Christ hath something more in it thē any other exāple hath or cā haue for it doth not only shew vs what we ought to do as the exāples of other men doe but it is a remedie against many vices and a motive to many good duties First of all the serious consideration of this that the very sonne of God himselfe suffered all the paines and torments of hel on the crosse for our sinnes is the proper most effectuall means to stirre up our hearts to a godly sorow for them And that this thing may come to passe euery man must be setled without doubt that he was the man that crucified Christ that he is to be blamed as well as Iudas Herode Pontius Pilate and the Iewes and that his sinnes were the nayles the speares and the thornes that pearced him When this meditation beginnes to take place bitternesse of spirite with wayling and mourning takes place in like maner Zach. 12. v. 10. And they shall looke vpon him vvhome they have pearced and they shall lament for him as one lamenteth for his onely sonne Peter in his first sermon strooke the Iewes as with a thunderclappe from heauen when hee saide unto them Yee have crucified the Lorde of glory so as at the same time three thousande men were pricked in their heartes and saide Men and breethren What shall vvee doe to be saved Againe if Christ for our sinnes shedde his heart bloode and if our sinnes made him sweate water and bloode Oh then why should not we our selues shedde bitter teares and why shoulde not our heartes bleede for them He that findes himselfe so dull and hardened that the Passion of Christ doeth not humble him is in a lamētable case for there is no faith in the death of Christ effectuall in him as yet Secondly the meditation of the Passion of Christ is a most notable meanes to breed repentance and reformation of life in time to come For when wee beginne to thinke that Christ crucified by suffering the first and second death hath procured unto vs remission of all our sinns past and freed vs from hell death and damnation then if there be but a sparke of grace in vs we beginne to be of another minde and to reason thus with our selues What hath the Lord beene thus mercifull to me that am in my selfe but a firebrand of hell as to free me from deserued destruction and to receiue me to fauour in Christ yea no doubt he hath his name be blessed therefore I will not therefore sinne any more as I haue done but euer hereafter endeauour to keep my selfe from euery euill way And thus faith purifies both heart and life Thirdly when thou art in any paine of body or