Page 137
CHAP. XVI.
Of the manner after which we are to celebrate the memory of Christs Passion.
BUt wee may not presume that wee remember Christs death as hee requires, when either with an historicall memory, or with a festivall solemnitie onely, wee celebrate, or dis∣course of it, except we doe it with a practicke memory, proportioned to the goodnesse and quality of the thing remembred. And first we must remember Christ with a memory of faith, with an applying and assuming memo∣ry, not onely in the generall, that he died; but in particular, that the reason of his death was my salvation and deliverance from death. Pilate and the unbeleeving Iewes shall one day see him whom they have peirced, and remember his death, Iudas shall see and re∣member him whom he kissed, the Devill shall see and remember him whom he persecuted, and in every one of these shall their remem∣brance produce an effect of horror and trem∣bling, a 1.1because they remember him as their Iudge. If our remembrance of the love and mercy of his death, not onely testified, but