The crucifying of the world

The difficulties in the words being not great, I shall take leave to be the briefer in their explication. The verb [Greek or Hebrew] signifieth not only external bo•sting, but first internal confidence and acquiescence. By [the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ] we are to understand both his Cross as suffered by him, and as considered by us, and as imitated by us, or the Cross we suffer in conformity to him: For I see no reason to take it in a more restrained sense.

The difficulties in the words being not great, I shall take leave to be the briefer in their explication. The verb 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 signifieth not only externall bo•sting, but first internall confidence and acquiescence. By [the Cross of our Lord Iesus Christ] we are to understand both his Cross as suffered by him, and as considered by us, and as imitated by us, or the Cross we suffer in conformity to him: For I see no reason to take it in a more restrained sense.

By [the world] is meant, the whole inferior Creation, or all that is objected to our sense, or is the bait or provision for the flesh, or by the tempter is put in competition with God: both the things and the men of the world.

By [the world] is meant, the whole inferiour Creation, or all that is objected to our sense, or is the bait or provision for the flesh, or by the tempter is put in competition with God: both the things and the men of the world.

To have [the world crucified to him] doth signify, 1. That it is killed and so disabled from doing him any deadly harm, or from being able to steal away his affections, as it doth they that