In Humility and Suffering

Earthly tyrants load their subjects with unjust burdens, inorder to increase their own power; but Jesus Christ chose to take upon himself the burden of the cross, and to carry it, inorder to leave life for us in that manner, that he might obtain salvation for us. The kings of the earth found their sovereignties in the force of arms and in the heaping up of riches; but Jesus Christ founded his sovereignty in the insults of the cross – that is in humbling himself and in suffering.