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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

sicknesse thinke how light these are compared to the agony and bloody sweate to the crowne of thornes and nailes of Christ When thou art wronged in worde or deede by any man turne thine eye to the crosse consider how meekely he suffered all abuses for the most part in silence and prayed for them that crucified him When thou art tempted with pride or vaine-glory consider how for thy proper sinns Christ was despised and mocked and condemned among theeues When anger and desire of reuenge inflame thine heart thinke howe Christ gaue him-selfe to death to saue his enemies euen then when they did most cruelly intreate him and shedde his bloode and by these meditations specially if they be mingled with faith thy minde shall be eased Thus wee see how Christ crucified is to be knowen and hence ariseth a threefolde knowledge one of God the second of our neighbors the third of our selues Touching the first If wee woulde knowe the true God aright and knowe him to our saluation wee must know him onely in Christ crucified God in him-selfe and his owne maiesty is inuisible not onely to the eyes of the body but also to the very mindes of men and hee is reuealed to us onely in Christ in whome hee is to be seene as in a glasse For in Christ hee setteth foorth and giues his iustice goodnesse wisdome and himselfe wholly vnto vs. For this cause hee is called the brightnesse of the glory and the ingrauen fourme of the person of the father Hebr. 1. 3. and the image of the invisible God Coloss. 1. 15. Therefore wee must not know God and seeke him any where els but in Christ and whatsoeuer out of Christ comes vnto vs in the name of God is a flat idol of mans braine As for our neighbours those especially that are of Gods Church they are to be knowen of us on this manner When wee are to doe any duty unto them wee must not barely respect their persons but Christ crucified in them and them in Christ. When Paul persecuted such as called on the name of Christ he then from heaued cryed Saul Saul Why per secutest thou me Here then let this be marked that when the poore comes to vs for releefe it is Christ that comet to our dores and saith I am hungry I am thirstie I am naked and let the bowells of compassion be in vs towardes them as towardes Christ vnlesse wee will heare that fearefull sentence in the day of iudgement Goe yee cursed into hell c. I vvas hungry and yee fedde me not I vvas naked and yee did not cloath me c. Thirdly the right knowledge of our selues ariseth of the knowledge of Christ crucified in whome and by whome wee come to knowe fiue speciall things of our selues The first how grieuous our sinnes are and therefore how miserable we are in regard of them If wee consider our offences in them-selues and as they are in vs wee may soone be deceiued because the conscience beeing corrupted often erreth in giuing testimony and by that meanes maketh sinne to appeare lesse then it is indeede But if sinne be considered in the death and passion of Christ whereof it was the cause and the vilenesse thereof measured by the unspeakable torments endured by the sonne of God and if the greatnesse of the offence of man be esteemed by the endlesse satisfaction made to the iustice of God the least sinne that is will appeare to be a sinne indeede and that most grieuous and ougly Therefore Christ crucified must be used of vs as a myrrour or looking glasse in which we may fully take a viewe of our wretchednesse and misery and what wee are by nature For such as the passion of Christ was in the eyes of men such is our passion or condition in the eyes of God that which wicked men did to Christ the same doth sinne and Satan to our very soules The second point is that men beleeuing in Christ are not their owne or lordes of themselues but wholly both body and soule belong to Christ in that they were giuen to him of God the Father and hee hath purchased them with his owne blood 1. Cor. 3. Yee are Christs and Christ Gods Hence it commeth to passe which is not to be forgotten that Christ esteemeth all the crosses and afflictions of his people as his own proper afflictions Hence againe we must learne to giue vp our selues both in body and soule to the honour and seruice of Christ whose we are The third is that every true beleeuer not as he is a man but as he is a new man or a Christian hath this being and subsisting from Christ Wee are members of his bodie of his flesh and of his bone Ephes. 5. v. 30. In which wordes Paul alludes to the speech of Adam Genes 3. Thou art bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh and thereby he teacheth that as Eve was made of a ribbe taken out of the side of Adam so doth the whol Church of Cod and euery man regenerate spring arise out of the blood that streamed from the heart and side of Christ crucified The fourth is that all good workes done of vs proceede from the vertue merit of Crist crucified he is the cause of them in vs and wee are the causes of them in and by him Without me saieth hee yee can doe nothing and Everie braunch that beareth not fruite in me marke well he saith in me he taketh away Ioh. 15. v. 2. The fifth point is that we owe unto Christ an endlesse debt For he was crucified onely as our surety and pledge and in the spectacle of his Passion wee must consider our selues as the chiefe debters and that the very discharge of our debt that is the sinnes which are inherent in vs were the proper cause of all the endlesse paines and torments that Christ endured that he might set vs most miserable bankrupts at liberty from hell death and damnation For this his unspeakable goodnesse if we doe but once thinke of it seriously wee must needes confesse that we owe our selues our soules and bodies and all that wee haue as a debt due unto him And so soone as any man beginnes to knowe Christ crucified he knowes his owne debt and thinkes of the paiment of it Thus wee see how Christ is to be knowen now wee shall not neede to make much examination whether this manner of knowing and acknowledging of Christ take any place in the worlde or no for very fewe there be that knowe him as they ought The Turke euen at this very day knowes him not but as he was a Prophet The Iewe scorneth his crosse and passion The popish Churches though in worde they confesse him yet doe they not knowe him as they ought The Fryers and Iesuites in their sermons at this day commonly vse the Passion as a meanes to stirre up pitie and compassion towardes Christ who beeing so righteous a man was so hardly intreated and

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