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CCNSIDER againe the circumstances of the stable, manger, &c. and you will find that where humilitie is practised, her sister Obedience is not farre absent. If Christ by all these thinges preache per∣fecte humilitie, it is in order to Obedi∣ence.
He humbled himselfe, being made Obediēt saith the great Aplostle. If the stable be poore, Manger narrow &c. he therfore humbly endures them, because such is his heauenly fathers will. As my father cōmanded me so I doe. I came downe from heauē not to doe myne owne will, but his who sent me. Whence S. Paule pronounceth a strange word. Though he was the very son of God, yet he was to learne Obedience by what he suffered here below, being other wise, as God, equall to his heauenly father, and as such, could not obey.
[Aff.] Haue we thē a true desire to imitate our Sauiour Iesus Christ? Let vs then humbly obey him; and by his example, and for his loue all others, to whom Obe∣dience may be due. Our deare Lord loues it, and puts so high a rate vpon it, that he chuses rather to lay downe his life then to leaue it, which he knowes to be more deare in his heauenly Fathers sight, then victimes of sacryfices, which yet are the speciall worshippe due to God alone. Doe we resolue Christianly to ouercome the world, the flesh, and the Diuell? Lets humbly obey then: For the humble and obedient man can indeede relate his vi∣ctories:
The best effectes of victorie is but peace, and the humble and obedient man, conquers the hartes of all men, and hath peace with all men, yet he inioyes it especially in his owne litle world, his owne hart, where he continually feastes and raignes: Christ came not from heauen into this world to doe his owne will, but his that sent him; nor come we out of the world into Religion, to doe our owne wills, but his will, in theirs, whom his prouidence places ouer vs.
[Resolution] We will then continually say in our hartes vpon all occasions, thy blessed will be donne, ô heauenly father; and with our blessed Sauiour: not my will, but thyne be done, &c.