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Christ to be made our Example in bearing the Crosse. [ 1835]
VVHen Alexander the great marched through Persia, his way was stop∣ped with Ice and S••ow, insomuch that his Souldiers being tyred out with hard marches, were discouraged and would have gone no further; Which he perceiving, dismounted his horse, and went on foot through the midst of them all,* 1.1 making himself a way with a pick••xe; VVhereat they all being ashamed. First his Friends, then the Captains of his Army, and last of all the Common-Soul∣diers followed him; So should all men follow Christ their Saviour by that rough and unpleasant way of the Cross that he hath gon before them,* 1.2 He having drunk unto them in the cup of his Passion, they are to pledg him when occasion is offered; He having left them an Example of his suffering, they are to follow him in the s••lf-••ame steps of sorrow, 1 Pet. 2. 21.