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The crucifying of the world
The crucifying of the world by the cross of Christ with a preface to the nobles, gentlemen, and all the rich, directing them how they may be richer / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R. W. for Nevill Simmons, 1658
The Crucifying of the world, BY The Cross of CHRIST. › Part 1 › Section 4
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
4. The whole life of Christ on earth was one continued conflict with the world. They believed not on him even when they saw his Miracles. They hated him even while he did them good. They afforded him not a settled habitation. So in the height of its Glory, the world must not be trusted by us. Though it afford us sustenance for our outward man, yet must we hate it; and we must allow it no settled entertainment in our hearts.
Christ was in the world, and the world was made by him, and yet it knew him not, John 1. 10. We converse in the world, and our outward man must live by it, as in it we received our life, and yet we must not know it in its separated capacity: The world could not hate them that were of the world, but Christ it hated, because he was not of it, John 7. 7. and 15. 18, 19. and 17. 14. So must we hate the world, because it is not of that nature, nor for that Interest as the New creature is, though worldlings that are of it cannot hate it.
Christ was in the world, and the world was made by him, and yet it knew him not, Iohn 1. 10. We converse in the world, and our outward man must live by it, as in it we received our life, and yet we must not know it in its separated capacity: The world could not hate them that were of the world, but Christ it hated, because he was not of it, Iohn 7. 7. and 15. 18, 19. and 17. 14. So must we hate the world, because it is not of that nature, nor for that Interest as the New creature is, though worldlings that are of it cannot hate it.