It is reported in the Bohemian story, that St. Wenceslaus, their king, one winter night going to his devotions, in a remote church, barefooted in the snow and sharpness of unequal and pointed ice, his servant, Podavius, who waited upon his master's piety, and endeavored to imitate his affections, began to faint through the violence of the snow and cold, till the king commanded him to follow him, and set his feet in the same footsteps, which his feet should mark for him. The servant did so, and either fancied a cure or found one; for he followed his prince, helped forward with shame and zeal to his imitation, and by the forming footsteps for him in the snow. In the same manner does the blessed Jesus; for, since our way is troublesome, obscure, full of objection and danger, apt to be mistaken and to affright our industry, he commands us to mark his footsteps, to tread where his feet have stood, and not only invites us forward by the argument of his example, but he hath trodden down much of the difficulty, and made the way easier, and fit for our feet. For he knows our infirmities, and himself hath felt their experience in all things but in the neighborhood of sin; and therefore he hath proportioned a way and a path to our strengths and capacities, and like Jacob, has marched softly and in evenness with the children and the cattle, to entertain us by the comforts of his company, and the influences of a perpetual guide. He that gives alms to the poor, takes Jesus by the hand; he that patiently endures injuries and affronts, helps him bear his cross; he that comforts his brother in affliction, gives an amiable kiss of peace to Jesus; we lead Jesus into the recesses of our heart by holy meditation, and we enter into his heart when we express him in our actions: for the apostle says, "He that is in Christ walks as he also walked." But thus the actions of our life relate to him by way of worship and religion; but the use is admirable and effectual, when our actions refer to him as to our copy, and we transcribe the original to the life.