Vse. This may serve to admonish us, never to please our own carnall will, but to subject our selves wholly to the good will of God.
Doctrine 9. Christ by his death did not only leave us an example of our lives, but also expiated our sinnes, and procured for us such power, whereby we may imitate him in living well.
This is gathered from verse 24.
Reason 1. Because after the same manner are we restored in Christ, as we were lost in Adam, which was not by imitation and example only, Romans 5.
2. Because Christ ought to be a sacrifice to pacifie God towards us, which is not done by example.
3. Because an example would have nothing at all profited those that were dead in sinne and hated of God.
Vse 1. This may serve to refute the Socinians and others, which feine that the redemption of Christ consists in doctrine and example only.
2. To direct us, alwayes to joyne these two together, redemption, and the example of Christ.
Doctrine 10. Without Christ we are nothing else but sheepe going astray and lost.
This is gathered from the last verse.