2. To exhort us to have a great care that we make conscience of this duty, because it doth most neerely belong to our calling.
Doctrine 7. Christs actions are a most perfect example for our duty and calling.
This is gathered from Verse 21.
Reason 1. Because Christ is unto us an example given by God, as it were the praxis of Divinity and rule of living well.
2. Because he hath no imperfection at all, such as may be found in all mens examples.
3. Because the Spirit of Christ makes us to be conformable unto his image.
Vse. This may serve to direct us, that beholding Christ as it were in a glasse, we may be as it were changed into the same image from glory to glory, 2 Corinthians 3.18.
Doctrine 8. The Chiefest manner of imitating Christ in enduring afflictions, consists in this, that we commit our cause unto God.
This is gathered from verse 23, at the end.
Reason. Because this is the rule of patience in such cases, not to revenge our selves, but to commit the whole businesse unto the Lord, and to rest well contented and pleased in his will.