9. But if we also, beloved brethren, are in Christ; if we put Him on, if He is the way of our salvation, who follow Christ in the footsteps of salvation, let us walk by the example of Christ, as the Apostle John instructs us, saying, “He who saith he abideth in Christ, ought himself also to walk even as He walked.”20 1 John ii. 6. Peter also, upon whom by the Lord’s condescension the Church was founded,21 [See Elucidation VII. The Trent Council itself (on Matt. xvi. 18) affirms this of the Creed, not Peter. Vol. iv. pp. 99 and 101.] lays it down in his epistle, and says, “Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example, that ye should follow His steps, who did no sin, neither was deceit found in His mouth; who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, threatened not, but gave Himself up to him that judged Him unjustly.”22 1 Pet. ii. 21–23, with a singular departure from the received text.
IX. Quod si et nos, fratres dilectissimi, in Christo sumus, si ipsum induimus, si ipse est salutis nostrae via, qui Christum vestigiis salutaribus sequimur, per Christi exempla gradiamur, sicut Joannes apostolus instruit dicens: Qui dicit se in Christo manere, debet quomodo ille ambulavit et ipse ambulare (I Joa. II, 6). Item Petrus, super quem Ecclesia Domini dignatione fundata est, in Epistola sua ponit et dicit: Christus 0628B passus est pro nobis, relinquens vobis exemplum, ut sequamini vestigia ejus; qui peccatum non fecit, nec dolus inventus est in ore ejus; qui cum malediceretur, non remaledicebat , cum pateretur non comminabatur; tradebat autem se judicanti se injuste (I Pet. II. 21).